The Future of Asset Integrity

Introduction

Asset Operations is entering a period of significant change driven by workforce demographics, aging infrastructure, economic uncertainty and artificial intelligence. However, many aspects of asset integrity and process safety remain unchanged, the drivers remain the same.

• Incidents are always bad news! People get hurt (or worse)! Safety remains non-negotiable. 
• Operations are interrupted, production is lost, and it may take months to rebuild facilities after a fire or explosion.
• Major incidents can cost 20 – 50% of the market capitalisation of companies and increase community concern. Incidents result in regulatory outcomes, fines, and litigation. Insurance costs increase.
• Employee moral is eroded as people don’t want to work for a company with a poor safety culture.

The future of asset integrity is not simply about maintaining equipment. It is about leading people, managing risk, and using intelligent technologies to ensure safe, reliable, and sustainable operations. Technology will transform asset integrity, but leadership will determine whether that transformation succeeds.

This presentation explores the challenge of the future and how organisations need to grow and preserve critical knowledge, invest in digital skills, apply risk-based maintenance and integrity processes, and adopt AI responsibly. These actions improve safety, reliability, regulatory compliance, and cost-effectiveness while enabling safe life extension and end-of-life management. 

The presentation describes how the EEMUA Asset Integrity Leadership Certification (AILC) helps current and future leaders address the decisive factors beyond policies, procedures, standards, and good practice - effective communication and leadership across the organisation from the front-line workforce through to senior management and board-level decision makers.


Includes a live Q&A session.

Speaker

Harry Moss

Harry says he a specialist in failure; fortunately these are usually organisational failures rather than his own.

He has experience working in global engineering, maintenance and integrity roles in Upstream, Midstream and Downstream facilities and pipelines in Operating Companies including Santos, BP and Glencore.

His career has been focused on supporting leaders to make good asset management decisions based on a better understanding of integrity and process safety risk. In 2020 Harry established a consultancy, IM3R Ltd, Integrity Management Run, Repair, Replace, which supports various energy companies. He also supports EEMUA with various integrity courses. He is a fellow of IMechE and a member of SARS (Safety and Reliability Society) and the Energy Institute.
 

Event Details

15:00-16:00 UK time; 16:00-17:00 Amsterdam; 09:00-10:00 Houston.
 

Who should attend

All Members and non-Members welcome.