Ageing Oil and Gas Asset Life Extension Course

Name: Ageing Oil and Gas Asset Life Extension Training Course
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Build traceable continued-operation and retirement decisions from condition, risk, obsolescence, and transition evidence.

Ageing Oil and Gas Asset Life Extension Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Marbella, Chicago, Dubai, Kuwait, Milan, Istanbul and more
Next session: 15 – 19 November 2026, Marbella
Average fee: 7,500 €

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Overview

Ageing Oil and Gas Asset Life Extension Training Course is a one-week advanced course for asset, integrity, maintenance, operations, inspection, assurance, and decommissioning functions who leave with an Ageing Asset Life-Extension Decision File. Participants distinguish degradation, obsolescence, and organizational ageing; verify integrity data; rank late-life threats; and build evidence for continued operation, repair, life extension, or retirement. The course links condition, risk, cost, competence, and transition decisions. Agile Leaders Training Center presents ageing asset life-extension governance.

Who Should Attend

Asset governance functions responsible for late-life strategy, value, risk, and investment decisions
Integrity functions responsible for degradation threats, barriers, anomalies, and assurance evidence
Maintenance and reliability functions responsible for aging equipment strategies, backlog, and intervention timing
Operations functions responsible for operating envelopes, temporary controls, and escalation
Inspection and technical-authority functions responsible for condition evidence and continued-service recommendations
Decommissioning planning functions responsible for cessation, preservation, transition, and retirement interfaces

The course assumes participants already use asset registers, inspection findings, maintenance histories, risk assessments, and technical reports, and it leaves out detailed corrosion calculations, equipment design, predictive-system implementation, and abandonment cost estimating.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that govern continued operation and retirement of late-life facilities.

Upstream oil and gas production
Gas processing, refining, and petrochemical operations
Pipeline, terminal, and storage operations
Industrial utilities and power-generation facilities
Asset integrity, inspection, maintenance, and reliability
Technical assurance, projects, finance, and decommissioning

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyze physical, technological, and organizational ageing modes
Evaluate integrity-data confidence and late-life threat exposure
Prioritize inspection, maintenance, and obsolescence actions
Compare continued-service, repair, re-rating, and retirement options
Build a risk-controlled life-extension justification
Apply governance, change, competence, and transition controls

Course Agenda

Day 1: Define the Ageing Asset Case

Asset Life-Cycle Stage and Decision-Boundary Map
Physical Degradation, Obsolescence, and Organizational Ageing Taxonomy
Safety-Critical Function and Barrier Dependency Register
Design-Basis, Modification, and Operating-History Evidence Map
Ageing Asset Governance and Accountability Matrix

Day 2: Establish Condition and Data Confidence

Asset Register Completeness and Data-Lineage Checklist
Inspection Finding and Anomaly Normalization Method
Damage Mechanism and Failure-Mode Screening Matrix
Remaining-Life Assumption and Uncertainty Register
Condition Evidence Confidence-Rating Scorecard

Day 3: Set Risk-Based Intervention Strategy

Criticality and Late-Life Consequence Ranking Matrix
Risk-Based Inspection Interval Review Method
Maintenance Backlog and Deferral Exposure Dashboard
Spare-Part, Technology, and Vendor Obsolescence Plan
Competence, Knowledge-Retention, and Contractor Risk Map

Day 4: Justify Continued Operation and Transition

Fitness-for-Service Evidence and Technical-Qualification Gate
Repair, Re-Rating, Replacement, and Retirement Option Screen
Temporary Repair and Management-of-Change Decision Log
Life-Extension Cost, Risk, and Benefit Comparison Model
Cessation, Preservation, and Decommissioning Interface Plan

Day 5: Practice Life-Extension Decisions

Suggested Exercise: Reconstruct an Ageing Asset Evidence Baseline
Suggested Exercise: Rank Degradation and Obsolescence Threats
Suggested Exercise: Select Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair Actions
Suggested Exercise: Challenge a Continued-Operation Justification
Capstone Exercise: Complete the Ageing Asset Life-Extension Decision File

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities to turn fragmented late-life evidence into traceable asset decisions.

Suggested activity: reconcile design, inspection, operating, maintenance, and modification records for one asset boundary.
Suggested activity: score data confidence and rank physical, technological, and organizational ageing threats.
Suggested activity: compare repair, re-rating, replacement, continued-service, and retirement options under uncertainty.
Suggested activity: document conditions, controls, owners, review dates, and transition triggers for a life-extension case.

FAQs

Who suits ageing oil and gas asset life extension training, and what does it assume?

Ageing asset life-extension training suits asset, integrity, maintenance, operations, inspection, assurance, and decommissioning functions. It assumes practical use of asset registers, inspection evidence, maintenance histories, risk assessments, and technical reports.

How does ageing asset life extension differ from generic asset management training?

Ageing asset life extension concentrates on late-life degradation, obsolescence, evidence gaps, remaining life, continued-operation justification, and transition decisions. Generic asset management training addresses broader lifecycle value, policy, planning, performance, and governance.

What evidence supports continued operation of an ageing oil and gas asset?

Continued operation is supported by a defined boundary, current condition evidence, credible degradation assumptions, verified barriers, risk controls, competent review, managed changes, intervention plans, and explicit operating limits.

How should obsolescence be managed in ageing oil and gas assets?

Obsolescence should be managed by identifying unsupported technology, scarce spares, vendor dependence, software and documentation gaps, competence loss, substitution constraints, and failure consequences, then assigning controlled mitigation and transition actions.

Conclusion

Participants take back an Ageing Asset Life-Extension Decision File linking condition, data confidence, threats, barriers, intervention options, uncertainty, costs, controls, and transition triggers. It changes scattered late-life records into a reviewable decision path. The file supports continued operation, repair, replacement, re-rating, or retirement choices with visible assumptions and ownership.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Marbella	Week 46, 2026 15 – 19 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Chicago	Week 47, 2026 22 – 26 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€16,000
Dubai	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Kuwait	Week 48, 2026 29 November – 3 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€7,000
Milan	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€7,000
Istanbul	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Abu Dhabi	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Bali	Week 51, 2026 20 – 24 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Tbilisi	Week 01, 2027 4 – 8 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Nairobi	Week 01, 2027 10 – 14 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Doha	Week 02, 2027 17 – 21 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€7,000
Barcelona	Week 03, 2027 18 – 22 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Jakarta	Week 05, 2027 1 – 5 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€8,000
Amsterdam	Week 06, 2027 8 – 12 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Porto	Week 06, 2027 8 – 12 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Nice	Week 07, 2027 15 – 19 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€8,000
Langkawi	Week 08, 2027 28 February – 4 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€8,000
Zanzibar	Week 09, 2027 7 – 11 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Phuket	Week 10, 2027 14 – 18 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€8,000
Johannesburg	Week 13, 2027 4 – 8 April 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewAgeing Oil and Gas Asset Life Extension Training Course is a one-week advanced course for asset, integrity, maintenance, operations, inspection, assurance, and decommissioning functions who leave with an Ageing Asset Life-Extension Decision File. Participants distinguish degradation, obsolescence, and organizational ageing; verify integrity data;…

Are training dates available?

Yes. Available dates and destinations are listed in the course dates section on this page.

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Ageing Oil and Gas Asset Life Extension Course