Investigation and Evaluation of the Maintenance Management System of the
Gas Turbines at the Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO)
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Mr. Mahmoud Farag Buraziza and 2Dr. Farag M. Shuaeib
1
The Arabian Golf Oil Company (AGOCO) Benghazi, Libya (GSPLAJ)
2
Mechanical Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya
(GSPLAJ)
E-mail: fmshuaeib@yahoo.com
Tel: 092-6225683
ABSTRACT
The aim of this article is to investigate and evaluate maintenance management system of the gas
turbines at the Arabian Gulf Oil Company known by the abbreviated name as AGOCO.
Furthermore, it is aimed to find the optimal maintenance plans that minimize overall
maintenance cost or maximize the system performance measure for the gas turbines at AGOCO
(or both). At the beginning a brief company profile is presented. Then an up-to-date
maintenance types and strategies are reviewed. Based on the performed literature study,
maintenance data of the current maintenance program of the gas turbines at the AGOCO were
collected and methods of investigating and evaluating the performance of the current turbine
maintenance system are then employed. Results showed that current maintenance system can be
improved, and methods of the feasible and practical solutions to improve the current
maintenance system are proposed and discussed. In conclusion, results showed that the modern
condition based maintenance system (CBM), if suitably employed, could be a better strategy
than the current preventive maintenance system (PM) currently employed at the company,
which would have both economical and performance measures benefits.
Key words: Gas Turbine, Condition Based Maintenance, Maintenance Management