Build an integrated activity plan that sequences maintenance, projects and drilling work within a fixed persons-on-board limit.
Oil, Gas & Energy
Integrated Activity Planning and Bed Space Management on Offshore Assets
Learn to build an integrated activity plan that sequences offshore work within bed space limits, manage simultaneous operations risk and coordinate logistics across a multi-month campaign.
🗓️Duration5 training days
📚Content4 modules · 8 sessions
🎓On completionAccredited attendance certificate
About the programme
Course Overview
On a fixed offshore platform, persons-on-board limits, not equipment or budget, are usually what stops an asset doing more work at once, and uncoordinated planning between maintenance, projects and drilling teams routinely produces last-minute bed space conflicts. This course teaches integrated activity planning: consolidating every planned activity into a single schedule, forecasting bed space demand across a multi-month campaign, and identifying simultaneous operations conflicts before they reach the permit to work stage. Participants build a bed space forecast against a realistic campaign, screen it for SIMOPS risk, and design the coordination meetings and escalation routes that resolve conflicting priorities without escalating every decision to shore. The course also covers aligning helicopter and vessel logistics with the activity plan and running short-interval planning that keeps the schedule realistic as weather and equipment availability change offshore. Delivered through a worked campaign case study, the course leaves participants able to build, defend and adjust an integrated activity plan under real operational pressure.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Identify simultaneous operations conflicts between planned activities and design controls that let them proceed safely together.
Forecast bed space demand across a multi-month campaign and flag periods where planned work exceeds accommodation capacity.
Prioritise competing work requests using criteria that weigh safety criticality, production impact and regulatory deadlines.
Coordinate helicopter and vessel logistics schedules with the activity plan to avoid bottlenecks in moving people and equipment offshore.
Run a short-interval planning process that adjusts the integrated plan as weather, equipment or personnel availability changes.
Present bed space and activity trade-off decisions to asset leadership in a form that supports fast, informed choices.
Who Should Attend
Offshore installation managers accountable for the safety and productivity of everyone working on the platform.
Onshore planning and scheduling coordinators who build integrated activity plans across multiple offshore assets.
Maintenance and turnaround planners competing for offshore bed space alongside projects and drilling teams.
Logistics coordinators managing helicopter, vessel and accommodation capacity for offshore campaigns.
Project managers who need offshore access windows for brownfield modification and tie-in work.
HSE advisors who assess simultaneous operations risk arising from concurrent offshore activities.
Course Modules
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01Foundations of Integrated Activity Planning
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Why Bed Space Becomes the Binding Constraint
- Explain how persons-on-board limits, not just equipment or budget, cap how much work an offshore asset can host at once.
- Distinguish core operating crew, maintenance teams, project personnel and third-party visitors within the bed space count.
- Trace how uncoordinated work requests from separate teams create last-minute bed space conflicts on the platform.
- Set the planning horizon and update cadence needed to keep an integrated activity plan realistic and current.
Session 2Building the Integrated Activity Plan
- Consolidate maintenance, project, drilling and inspection work requests into a single activity plan with shared timelines.
- Sequence activities against planned production, shutdown and weather windows to avoid avoidable schedule clashes.
- Assign each activity a bed space and duration estimate that planners can sum against the platform's accommodation limit.
- Flag activities with fixed regulatory or safety-critical deadlines that must take priority in the sequencing.
02Managing Simultaneous Operations Risk
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Identifying SIMOPS Conflicts
- Screen the integrated activity plan for simultaneous operations where hot work, lifting or drilling activities overlap in time and location.
- Assess how concurrent activities change the risk profile of each individual task compared with it running in isolation.
- Map physical and procedural interfaces between teams working near each other on the same structure or system.
- Identify activities that must be deconflicted in time or space rather than run simultaneously under additional controls.
Session 2Controlling SIMOPS through Permits and Coordination
- Design a permit to work coordination process that surfaces conflicting activities before work starts, not during execution.
- Set daily or shift coordination meetings that reconcile the integrated plan with real-time changes on the platform.
- Define escalation routes for resolving conflicts between teams when priorities and safety concerns compete for the same window.
- Record SIMOPS decisions and their justification so they can be audited and reused for similar future situations.
03Bed Space Forecasting and Logistics Coordination
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Forecasting Bed Space Demand
- Build a bed space demand forecast across the campaign that aggregates every planned activity's personnel requirement by week.
- Identify peak demand periods where the forecast exceeds accommodation capacity and requires re-sequencing or deferral.
- Model the effect of activity delays or extensions on downstream bed space availability for later work.
- Reserve contingency bed space for emergency response, regulatory visits and unplanned corrective maintenance.
Session 2Aligning Helicopter and Vessel Logistics
- Coordinate helicopter flight schedules with personnel changeover dates implied by the integrated activity plan.
- Sequence vessel deliveries of equipment and consumables to match the timing of the activities that need them.
- Identify logistics bottlenecks, such as limited flight slots or weather downtime, that constrain how fast personnel can be moved.
- Build contingency logistics plans for weather delays that would otherwise cascade through the whole activity schedule.
04Execution, Short-Interval Control and Reporting
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Running Short-Interval Planning Offshore
- Operate a short-interval planning cycle that adjusts the plan daily or weekly as conditions change offshore.
- Reprioritise activities in real time when weather, equipment failure or personnel shortage disrupts the published plan.
- Track actual versus planned progress for each activity to catch schedule slippage before it compounds.
- Communicate plan changes clearly to all affected teams to avoid duplicated or conflicting work instructions.
Session 2Reporting and Continuous Improvement
- Report bed space utilisation and plan adherence metrics that let asset leadership judge planning effectiveness.
- Review completed campaigns to identify recurring causes of bed space overruns or SIMOPS conflicts.
- Feed lessons learned back into planning assumptions such as activity duration estimates and buffer sizes.
- Benchmark planning performance across multiple assets to spread effective practices across the fleet.
What the participant receives
4 course modules
A structured syllabus
8 training sessions
across 5 days
32 detailed points
Applied, detailed content
Accredited attendance certificate
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