In our latest Author Q&A we asked Eduardo Calixto, about his latest book and the current pain points faced by Gas and Oil Reliability Engineering.
Why would readers want to read your book?
The big difference in my book to other reliability engineering books is the coverage of all reliability engineering subjects such as lifetime data analysis, RAM, human reliability, asset management, accelerated testing, maintenance and safety with examples of methods application and real case studies applied in the oil and gas industry.
What subject areas and industries does this book directly relate to?
Lifetime data analysis to predict reliability
Accelerated test (ALT, HALT, RGA) to support design by predicting reliability and reliability growth
RAM to model a complex system concerning operational availability, production efficiency, reliability, maintenance and LCC optimization
Maintenance concepts and methods to support decisions about the best inspection, and maintenance carried out with equipment and components to prevent the failure modes effect
Human reliability to predict human error probability and identify the human performance factor which takes influence on asset performance during commissioning, operation and maintenance tasks
Safety concepts and methods applied to risk management and the reliability application to improve the accuracy of risk prediction
Asset management to clarify how the reliability engineering can be applied throughout the asset life cycle in order to support the asset performance optimization
What are the biggest pain points in the industry?
The biggest pain point in oil and gas industry nowadays is how to achieve the finance targets with lower OPEX. That can be translated in maintaining high performance but with lower operational cost. This book highlights all the methods that must be applied to achieve high performance with lower life cycle cost and give a real case example in chapter 8 related to subsea cases where the optimization concept was applied in a real project concerning reliability, operational availability, preventive maintenance, logistics and life cycle cost.
What problems/challenges does this book address and what problem does it solve for your readers?
The first aspect is how to apply the different reliability methods. This book, rather than technical explanation, gives real cases as examples of application which allows the reader to understand the step by step of different methods and also to use the case studies to adapt to their real problem.
What topics and subjects does this book uniquely address and what value does it add to the industry?
This reliability book uniquely addresses all reliability engineering methods and explains how each of these methods must be applied along with results and benefits.
This book also uniquely addresses the examples and real oil and gas case applications which most reliability books are not able to show.
Why did you choose Elsevier to publish this work?
Since I wrote my first book in 2012 by Elsevier, I was very impressed about how professional you are. I like to work with Elsevier and appreciate the support through the editing and review process. Some aspects such as English grammar review for graphs and pictures are hard, but in your case we authors get a lot of support on it. In addition, the financial details about the book and royalties are very clear and well informed. I´m really happy with Elsevier and intend to publish another book in the near future.
Interested to read more? You can, for a limited time access Chapter 5 Human Reliability Engineering on ScienceDirect here.
Gas and Oil Reliability Engineering, 2nd Edition is a critical resource that will arm engineers and managers with the basic reliability principles and standard concepts that are necessary to explain their use for reliability assurance for the oil and gas industry and is available to purchase now on the Elsevier Store:
Provides the latest tactics and processes that can be used in oil and gas markets to improve reliability knowledge and reduce costs
Presents practical knowledge with over 20 new internationally-based case studies covering BOPs, offshore platforms, pipelines, valves, and subsea equipment from various locations, such as Australia, the Middle East, and Asia
Contains expanded explanations of reliability skills with a new chapter on asset integrity management, relevant software, and techniques training, such as THERP, ASEP, RBI, FMEA, and RAMS
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