Success in today’s oil and gas market requires a new and effective approach to the management of quality. Defects have a real impact on customers’ bottom lines and their elimination is a priority. Focusing on quality management system requirements for the sector’s supply organisations, API Spec. Q2 provides a comprehensive framework for quality enhancement and standardisation.
Our four-day API Spec. Q2 training course gives you an advanced knowledge of the standard’s requirements and interpretations. Looking at the challenges from a managerial and business prospective, it begins with Q2 Fundamentals and leads to Practitioner status.
Q2 course topics primarily include:
- Quality management system requirements
- Service execution
- Quality management system monitoring, measurement, analysis and improvement.
In addition, the Practitioner course covers the critical clauses and controls, and teaches service providers how to properly develop, deploy, implement and sustain the specification. It also teaches operators how to review and audit for maximum effectiveness.
In this course, we discuss the fundamentals and thoroughly examine the key controls within the standard. We also explored how to apply them in order to eliminate risk while improving operations.
- Gain an in-depth understanding of the API Q2 Quality Management standards for service
- Understand how to implement and conduct a gap analysis within your organisation
- Understand how to audit your key supplier against the standard
- Quality objectives
- Management responsibility
- Q2’s layout and terminology / definitions
- The “process approach” to quality management
- Competency requirements
- Control of documents
- Risk assessment and management
- Service design
- Contingency planning
- Calibration, accuracy vs. minimum test pressures
- Management of change (MOC)
- Customer satisfaction process
- Corrective action and internal audit
- Quality system auditors
- Quality assurance personnel and management representatives
- Personnel involved in supplier evaluation activities
- Oil company personnel involved with specifying equipment requirements
- Well site service providers