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Welcome to the Condition Based Maintenance Network
Next Meeting


Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) Network will hold its first quarterly meeting of 2010 in Aberdeen on Wednesday, 3rd March 2010. The meeting is being kindly hosted by Nexen. Confirmed attendees include BP, Shell, Marathon Oil, Talisman Energy, Nexen and ConocoPhillips. The venue and contact details are as under-

Venue: Boardroom 3E-A, Nexen House, Hareness Road, Altens Industrial Estate, Altens, Aberdeen, AB12 3LE. Tel: +44 (0) 1224 371 100

OTM Contact: Saif Rahman, OTM Consulting Ltd, Tel: +44 (0) 1483 598000, Email: Saif Rahman


What is the CBM?


The network exists to establish, promote and share best practices and lessons learnt amongst its membership. It is primarily focused on the upstream oil and gas sector, and condition-based maintenance (CBM) ranging from platform topsides dynamic (eg rotating) and static applications, to seabed and downhole systems.

The objectives of the network are to:

  • Increase production
  • Reduce long-term OPEX
  • Optimise maintenance costs
  • Measure and improve CBM techniques and practices
  • Increase awareness and understanding of CBM and its business value throughout the industry
  • Identify and report best practice
  • Ensure optimum H, S and E protection


Piloting the network was university led with a group of operators and service companies in Aberdeen. In order to achieve the network’s mission and objectives in a sustainable manner over the longer term, it is now a more formal organisation with elected officers (the steering committee), professional project management and administration (by OTM Consulting) and independent research activities such as benchmarking.
Membership Benefits
  • Access to CBM-Network one-day workshops for networking and sharing of experiences/ case histories/ lessons learnt regarding CBM with a pre-eminent and large group of operators and service companies. Workshops will be held every 4 months, hosted by network members


  • Participation in annual network benchmarking exercises to identify CBM best practices


  • Development of, and access to, CBM best practice guidelines, developed by technical workgroups within network, with a ¡®maintenance strategy¡¯ guideline envisaged initially


  • Access to the members area of the network website (www.cbm-europe.org), including presentation material from workshops, database of CBM experts, database of technology gaps, library of case histories, status of CBM projects and workgroups, and useful links


  • A strengthened CBM 'community', particularly through meetings and the network website


  • Input to future direction and strategy of the network