Asset Integrity and Risk Management Consulting
‘Our objective is to use our knowledge and experience to understand the condition of assets and help shape best practice integrity management programs. This allows our clients to make good risk management decisions and operate safe, reliable and compliant facilities’.
Harry Moss, Founder IM3R
About
IM3R - The Why
There are plenty of asset integrity and process safety concerns to keep us awake at night. The discovery of significant damage or deterioration in a precious asset is bad news. The decision on whether continued safe operation is possible and, if so, for how long is not easy. The consequences of getting a Run, Repair or Replace decision wrong can be dire. A release of the contents can result in a fire or explosion.
- People might be hurt or, worse, killed
- The environment might be damaged
- Significant production impact and downtime could result
- Reputation could be damaged
- Regulatory fall out could result in withdrawal of the privilege to operate
- Assurance of inspection and corrosion program effectiveness
- Identification of program efficiency and cost opportunities
- Actionable improvement recommendations aligned with available resources
- Increased understanding of integrity and process safety risks and mitigation
- Improved plant reliability and availability
- Wider understanding of the need and value of integrity management activities
Services
IM3R Limited are pleased to offer a full range of services including:
- Facilitation of risk directed run, repair and / or replace decisions
- Development of integrity policy, strategy, standards, specifications and management systems
- Efficiency and effectiveness review of corrosion, inspection, NDE and RBI programs
- Audit, Assurance and Verification of inspection and corrosion programs
- Integrity Management system benchmarking and Continuous Improvement
- Integrity and process safety KPIs development, Performance Management and Corporate Reporting
- Pressure equipment, tanks and pipelines design, fabrication, manufacture and construction quality assurance
- Organisation design, recruitment, coaching and development of integrity engineers
- Contractor and Supplier performance management support
- Failure and Root Cause investigation, expert witness representation
About Dr Christopher (Harry) Moss
DPhil, CEng, FIMechE
Harry is a former Global Inspection Engineering Technical Authority for bp. He has had an extensive career working as a corrosion and inspection Subject Matter Expert in oil and gas companies around the world. He has been responsible for the development, deployment, management, assurance and audit of asset integrity management programs and systems and been instrumental in the development of standards and practice. He promotes dialogue and sharing of asset integrity, process safety and reliability best practice for the benefit of all.
As an analytical thinker with cultural awareness he is adept at leading and supporting dispersed workforces. He has been effective in engagement at all levels of organizations and their stakeholders to support corporate safety and risk objectives and people development. He supports collaboration between industry, universities and institutes to develop the necessary technical and practical skills and competency for the next generation of chartered professionals.
He is an engineering (materials science and metallurgy) graduate of Brunel University, London and has a doctorate (in stress corrosion cracking) from Oxford University and supports not-for-profit endeavours such as IMechE, SaRS, Energy Institute and being a School Governor.
Selected Achievements
People
- Guided a global materials, corrosion and inspection community of practice in continuous improvement and standardisation.
- Undertook organisational structure reviews of Inspection departments.
Performance
- Managed KPI reporting to aid visibility of performance and risk management decision making at executive-level.
- Instrumental in the delivery of many corporate engineering reviews, barrier assurance and audit activities with corrective action risk reduction recommendations.
Plant
- Managed the development and implemention of facilities and pipeline integrity management systems and subsequently undertook benchmarking reviews.
- Supported major projects with selection of materials, integrity and corrosion management strategies and systems (Operations Readiness).
- Managed many failure investigations with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
- published 40+ integrity, materials, corrosion and inspection papers at national and international conferences, 10 published in internationally reviewed journals.
Process
- Drove implementation of Corporate standards for in-service inspection and testing which required negotiation with engineering and maintenance people on training, assessment and ongoing verification and assurance.
- Worked with subject matter experts to interpret and rationalise integrity management practices aligned with governing regulatory and corporate requirements.
- Chairman and Member of various Standards Committees on Pressure Equipment and pipeline design, operations and maintenance and Industry Panels on integrity, risk, safety and reliability management.