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Oil & gasUnited KingdomISO 14224API RP 14CSafety-critical

ISO 14224 / API RP 14C standards programme on IBM Maximo for an oil & gas operator

A North Sea oil & gas operator needed its Maximo data to actually answer the questions reliability and HSE engineers ask, against the same standards regulators and partners use. We delivered the standard inside Maximo, not next to it.

ISO 14224 / API RP 14C standards programme on IBM Maximo for an oil & gas operator — case study cover image

Sector

Oil & gas (upstream / offshore)

Region

United Kingdom (UKCS)

Duration

12 months programme + ongoing run-and-improve

Scope

Standards model, master data, integration, reliability analytics

Versions

IBM Maximo on DB2

The challenge

After a series of mergers the operator had three different ways of describing the same pump and four different failure-mode lists. Reliability engineers could not benchmark MTBF across assets without manual cleanup, and safety-critical-element (SCE) performance reporting was being assembled in spreadsheets every quarter.

Regulators, partners and the operator's own corporate reliability function were all asking for ISO 14224-aligned failure data. The board wanted defensible API RP 14C SCE evidence on demand, not assembled in panic before an audit. None of this was going to come from a tool change. It needed a standards model built into Maximo itself.

Architecture (anonymised)

IBM Maximo global standards model ISO 14224 taxonomy & failure data API RP 14C SCE / safety-critical ISO 15926 handover data exchange Reliability analytics MTBF / MTTR SAP PM / Finance cost & spares Operator dashboards SCE performance

What MaxIron delivered

  • ISO 14224 taxonomy in Maximo: asset class, equipment unit, sub-unit and maintainable item hierarchy aligned to ISO 14224, with failure mode and failure mechanism reference data loaded as managed lists.
  • API RP 14C SCE flagging: safety-critical elements identified and tagged in Maximo with associated performance standards, verification activities, deferral rules and corrective action workflow.
  • ISO 15926-aligned handover: data templates for new-build / brownfield handover so EPC contractors deliver Maximo-ready data instead of dumping spreadsheets into the operator.
  • Master data remediation: duplicate equipment merged, criticality re-baselined, location hierarchy normalised, work history mapped onto the standardised model.
  • Reliability analytics layer: clean MTBF, MTTR and bad-actor reporting straight out of Maximo data, with a small downstream analytics layer rather than a parallel database.
  • Governance and change control: a data governance forum, a Maximo standards owner role, and a controlled change process so the standard does not erode in the first 12 months.

Integrations

System Direction Purpose
SAP PM / Finance bi-directional cost objects, spares, PO/invoice flow
Reliability analytics outbound MTBF, MTTR, bad-actor analysis
EPC handover packs inbound (one-off / per project) ISO 15926 templated data exchange
HSE incident system inbound link incident records to assets and SCEs

Outcomes

  • One taxonomy — three legacy classification schemes consolidated to a single ISO 14224 model across the operated estate.
  • SCE evidence on demand — API RP 14C performance reporting produced from Maximo, not spreadsheets; defensible to regulator and partners.
  • Cleaner reliability data: MTBF and MTTR comparable across assets and platforms for the first time.
  • Faster, cheaper handover from EPC contractors using the agreed data templates.
  • Standards owner role and governance forum live; the model is being maintained, not allowed to drift.

Long-term support

MaxIron remains as standards and reliability advisor on a retained basis: standards reviews on each major project, audit support, and continuous-improvement work as the operator brings additional fields and brownfield assets into the model.

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