Course: Use of ISO 14224 to optimize operations and ensure sustainability in oil, gas, and lower carbon energy industries

ISO 14224 is a fundamental international standard for collection and exchange of reliability and maintenance (RM) data for equipment in petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries. The ISO 14224:2016 is developed by ISO/TC 67/WG 4 and is an important and globally recognized ISO standard for use in the oil and gas industry across a variety of equipment that has been adopted in approx. 50 countries. Systemized historic and predicted reliability knowhow of equipment performance (failure and maintenance) provides essential knowledge for production assurance, reliability management, maintenance management, risk management, and cost management, etc.

Management of reliability and maintenance data is important. Data usage domain encompasses production assurance and reliability management, maintenance optimization, life cycle costing and technical safety (e.g., SIL). Interfaces with other ISO documents (ISO 20815, ISO/TR 12489, ISO 15663, ISO/TS 3250, and ISO 19008) and IEC documents (IEC 61508 and IEC 61511), will also be addressed. The course will include coverage of both safety-critical and production-critical equipment located offshore and onshore. The different parts of ISO 14224 will be presented in the course in relation to the above-mentioned topics.

This advisory course will demonstrate how the ISO 14224 standard can be used to ensure safety and profitability in petroleum, natural gas and petrochemical industries. It can also be applicable in other industries, such as renewable energy. The course will provide fundamental principles of the ISO 14224 standard, and practical guidance for how to use and conform with this international standard. In addition, the course will inform about the application of the standard in enterprise software and CMMIS.

• The course will provide guidance on use of reliability and maintenance data for:
• Technology development and technology qualification
• Improved design and condition monitoring for equipment
• Better risk awareness and data-driven decision-making
• Improved digitization and accelerated digitalization
• Application in enterprise software

Participation at this course will be a unique opportunity to get knowledge and obtain a skillset on reliability data management.

This course is organized by ISO/TC 67/WG 4 with administrative support from Standards Norway and the University of Stavanger.

Time and location

Time: Tuesday 7 October 2025, 0830 – 1700 Central European Time (CET).

Location: Eni, via Paride Stefanini, 11 “Edificio 2 Europarco”, Rome, Italy. Room Campidoglio

Course materials

Each course participant will receive a comprehensive presentation materials package and a course certificate after the course.

Note that the ISO 14224 standard itself will not be sent out to the participants, as this requires separate purchase (via your company) or by an ISO subscription agreement with your national standardization body.

Registration and deadline

Advance registration is required by Wednesday 13 August 2025. Please note that the registration is binding at date of deadline. Final confirmation that the course will be held will be sent after the deadline.

If you have questions on registration, please contact in Standards Norway. Invoicing information will be sent when the course is confirmed.

Course fee: EUR 700

Registration contact: petroleum@standard.no

Course contact: Jon T. Selvik, jon.t.selvik@uis.no

ISO/TC 67/WG 4 convenor (ISO 14424 project leader): Runar Østebø, Equinor, runos@equinor.com

Course registration

If you are interested in this topic, but are unable to attend the given dates, you can indicate this in our registration form “Registration of interest”, and we will contact you later when we plan another similar course regarding ISO 14224.

Target groups

• Operators
• Contractors
• Vendors/Manufacturers/Suppliers
• Consultancies (e.g. ERP software and analytics)
• Authorities
• Academia & Research

The target groups can be within petroleum, natural gas and petrochemical industries, or also within related lower carbon energies such as offshore wind, CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage), hydrogen, ammonia, etc.

Lecturers

Runar Østebø, ISO/TC 67/WG 4 convenor and ISO 14224:2016 project leader, is advisor in Equinor for subsea technology and operation, and corporate responsibilities within technology qualification. He has international standardization management duties, as member of the ISO/TC 67 management committee and is the ISO/TC 67/WG 4 convenor for reliability & cost standards. He has broad experience in Equinor during more than 30 years within field development, project execution, quality assurance, operational technology, benchmarking and reliability management for a multitude of NCS fields, and oil & gas projects globally. He was OREDA JIP Steering chairman for 10 years and was responsible for OREDA subsea reliability data collections for 20 years (1991-2011). Prior to Statoil/Equinor, 10-year experience in international upstream & downstream risk management consultancy company and in drilling & well technology research institute, as well-recognized international blowout expert.

Jon T. Selvik, ISO 14224:2016 technical editor, is a Professor at the University of Stavanger, where he is teaching reliability analysis and risk management. He is also a Chief Scientist at the Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE), where he has been involved in several reliability studies and for a period worked with equipment testing at the Ullrigg Test Centre (UTC). His research areas cover reliability, risk and decision analysis. A main part of his work is on collection and use of reliability and maintenance data.

Stefan Isaksen, Norwegian expert member of the ISO 14224:2016 project group, is a Specialist Adviser in TÜV Rheinland Safetec, a global company with risk and reliability consultancy services. He has about 20 years of experience working as a reliability analyst. Stefan has been working with collection of reliability data, data analysis, and use of reliability data in system analysis. He has been project manager for the Offshore & Onshore Reliability Data (OREDA) JIP, including responsibility for quality assurance of operator collected reliability data and data collection guidelines.

Tony Ciliberti, US expert member of the ISO 14224:2016 project group, is the founder of Reliability Dynamics. He has 37 years of experience in equipment reliability and risk management for petrochemical, oil, gas, and utility companies. He is the US Expert Member in the ISO 14224 Project Group and a contributing author of the ISO 14224:2016 Standard. He chairs the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) Process Equipment Reliability Database (PERD) Project.

Agenda

All times are given in CET (Central European Time)

• 0830 0 Registration and coffee
• 0900 1 Welcome and course objectives
• 0915 2 Brief overview of ISO/TC67/WG4 activities
• 0930 3 General overview of the ISO 14224 standard
  • • Main clauses and annexes
    • Normative versus informative
• 0945 4 Key terms and definitions
• Short break
• 1015 5 Taxonomy classification and reliability and maintenance (RM) data concepts
• 1100 6 Human factor aspects
• Short break
• 1115 7A Establishment of taxonomy and RM data in corporate software: Case examples from industry and discussion
• 1200 Lunch
• 1300 7B Establishment of taxonomy and RM data in corporate software: Case examples from industry and discussion (continued)
• 1400 8 RM data quality
  • RM data qualification/use in analyses with relations to ISO 20815
• Short break
• 1430 9 Basic reliability concepts, calculation of RM parameters and KPIs
• 1515 10 Safety systems and Systems with safety functions
  • RM data with relations to ISO/TR 12489
  • RM data with relations to functional safety
• Short break
• 1545 11 Industry benefits from application of ISO 14224 and relations to lower carbon arena: Case examples from industry and discussion
• 1630 12 Q&A session with course participants and Course evaluation
• 1700 End of course