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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for work
   • Receive and give shift handover
   • Identify work requirements
   • Identify and control hazards
   • Coordinate with appropriate personnel
   • Check for recent work undertaken on well/gathering system
   • Note any outstanding/incomplete work
   • Check operational status of well/gathering system
   • Determine appropriate route/schedule for day's work
2. Monitor site, plant and equipment
   • Complete routine site and equipment checks, logs and paperwork taking action on readings in accordance with procedures
   • Use well control systems
   • Identify and complete required lease maintenance
3. Operate well/ system in accordance with procedures
   • Read and interpret well/gathering system fluid levels
   • Adjust pump speed to meet required output
   • Check meter readings validity
   • Complete any process-related calculations
   • Recognise equipment/system faults and report
   • Adjust well/gathering system to meet operational or other requirements
   • Complete logs and reports as required
4. Start up well/system
   • Perform pre-start up checks
   • Correctly sequence all required equipment/plant/systems
   • Bring equipment/plant/systems into operation as required
   • Monitor critical variables during start-up and make adjustments as required
   • Bring to required steady operating conditions smoothly and in an appropriate time
5. Shut down well/ system
   • Determine type of shutdown required
   • Give advanced warning of shutdown where possible
   • Shut down individual items and/or the entire well/system
   • Shut down to standby condition if required
   • Shut down in an emergency if required
   • Reset trips and alarms after shutdown
   • Leave plant in the required condition after shutdown
6. Isolate and de-isolate system or component plant item
   • Isolate system and/or any component plant item in accordance with procedures
   • Make safe for required work
   • Check system/plant item is ready to be returned to service
   • De-isolate and prepare system for return to service.
7. Finalise shift activities
   • Complete shift tasks as appropriate
   • Ensure identified faults are correctly logged/reported for action
   • Ensure incomplete tasks are scheduled for follow-up
   • Ensure all logs and reporting are complete and understood

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.
Regulatory framework	The latest version of all legislation, regulations, industry codes of practice and Australian/international standards, or the version specified by the local regulatory authority, must be used, and include one or more of the following: legislative requirements, including work health and safety (WHS) industry codes of practice and guidelines environmental regulations and guidelines Australian and other standards licence and certification requirements All operations to which this unit applies are subject to stringent health, safety and environment (HSE) requirements, which may be imposed through state/territory or federal legislation, and these must not be compromised at any time. Where there is an apparent conflict between performance criteria and HSE requirements, the HSE requirements take precedence.
Hazards	Hazards include one or more of the following: electricity gas gases and liquids under pressure structural hazards structural collapse equipment failures industrial (machinery, equipment and product) equipment or product mass noise, rotational equipment or vibration working at heights, in restricted or confined spaces, or in environments subjected to heat, noise, dusts or vapours flammability and explosivity hazardous products and materials unauthorised personnel sharp edges, protrusions or obstructions slippery surfaces, spills or leaks extreme weather other hazards that might arise
Routine problems	Routine problems are predictable, have known solutions and include one or more of the following: leakage solids (formation fines) vibration loss of control of pressure and/or flow hydrate formation and blockages liquid slugging corrosion erosion sulphate reducing bacteria scale formation equipment failure change in product parameters (e.g. temperature, flow, pressure and level) fouling or contamination
Non-routine problems	Non-routine problems are unexpected problems, or variations of previous problems and must be resolved by applying operational knowledge to develop new solutions, either individually or in collaboration with relevant experts, to: determine problems needing action determine possible fault causes develop solutions to problems which do not have a known solution follow through items initiated until final resolution has occurred report problems outside area of responsibility to designated person Operational knowledge includes one or more of the following: procedures training technical information, such as journals and engineering specifications remembered experience relevant knowledge obtained from appropriate people
Procedures	All operations must be performed in accordance with relevant procedures. Procedures are written, verbal, visual, computer-based or in some other form, include one or more of the following: emergency procedures work instructions standard operating procedures (SOPs) safe work method statements (SWMS) formulas/recipes batch sheets temporary instructions any similar instructions provided for the smooth running of the plant
Product	Product includes anything produced by a process step and so includes: intermediate products, such as the product from one process step, which then becomes the feed for another
Logs and reports	Logs and reports include one or more of the following: paper or electronic-based logs and reports verbal/radio reports reporting items found which require action
Lease maintenance areas requiring action	Lease maintenance areas requiring action include one or more of the following: land erosion fence and gate integrity weeds and other growth actions of feral or other fauna other required items
Levels	Levels include one or more of the following: chemical storage levels lubricating oil levels water and gas levels battery levels drain levels other levels

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy the requirements of the elements and performance criteria, and include the ability to:

undertake readings and observations to operate and monitor system and maximise performance

perform pre-start checks, start-up/shutdown procedures, and isolations and de-isolations

interpret fluid level readings and maintain fluid levels

identify early warning signs of equipment/processes needing attention or with potential problems and take action

identify hazards and risks and apply risk control procedures

communicate effectively with team, group, supervisors and other personnel

calculate volumetric flow rates and equipment efficiencies.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence must be provided that demonstrates knowledge of:

all items on a schematic of the production unit and functions of each, downhole drawings (DHDs) and their application to plant/well operation

principles of operation of plant/equipment, reservoir management, free flow and pumped wells, pumping principles, gas flow principles, gas/water separation principles, draining and venting requirements, remote terminal unit, functions, operation and problems

interactions between plant items/processes

systems’ operating parameters, integrity limits, product specifications and tolerances, flange pressure and temperature ratings (basic), temperature, pressure and flow

process-specific science (physics and geology) to the level of being able to interpret the science and extract factors controlling the process and product, and including coal seam gas (CSG) formation, structure and completions, coal type and structure, well design and construction, fluid dynamics and statics as relevant to the system, natural gas and oil characteristics, hydrate formation, cathodic protection (basic), static electricity and earthing, corrosion control and chemical handling, and safety data sheets (SDS)

local lease and well operations requirements and constraints

impact of external factors (e.g. variations in weather and feed)

function and troubleshooting of major components, problems and their solutions

hierarchy of control

hazards that may arise in the job/work environment, and:

their possible causes

potential consequences

appropriate risk controls.

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