Turnaround and Maintenance Scheduling Solutions
Clear schedules. Confident execution.
20 plus years of oil and gas industry experience, specialized turnaround and maintenance scheduling, planning and optimization for the energy sector. We provide practical scheduling expertise to help organizations improve schedule integrity, optimize resources and strengthen execution readiness.
Choterra Scheduling
Turnaround and Maintenance Scheduling Services
Scheduling services
Specialist technical scheduling for turnarounds, shutdowns and ongoing maintenance in oil and gas and the wider energy sector.
Turnaround scheduling
Schedule development, activity sequencing, critical-path analysis and progress updates for turnarounds and shutdowns, including schedule recovery.
Maintenance scheduling
Work-order based planning and scheduling, backlog analysis and resource-capacity forecasting using client-approved data.
Integrated scheduling and schedule optimization
Integration of multi-project and multi-discipline schedules, with optimized logic, sequencing and resource loading.
Schedule development, reviews and health checks
Schedules built from scope, and independent reviews of logic, constraints, interfaces, float and milestones with prioritized recommendations.
Scheduling consulting and project support
Technical advice and hands-on project-controls support, from planning strategy to day-to-day schedule management.
Asset Register & Master Equipment List Development
Establish, validate and improve equipment information to support maintenance management, preventive maintenance programs and maintenance execution.
Industry experience
Hands-on scheduling experience supporting major energy organizations, including Cenovus Energy, ConocoPhillips, TC Energy and BP.
Industries we serve
Our focus is the energy sector, and we also support:
- Oil Sands and Conventional Oil & Gas.
- Mining and Mineral Processing.
- Chemical and Petrochemical Facilities.
- Manufacturing and Industrial Processing.
- Pulp and Paper.
- Cement and Aggregate Operations.
- Power Generation and Utilities.
Plan. Execute. Perform.
We focus on practical schedules that help teams understand the work, the sequence, the constraints and the decisions required before execution, and we support safe execution on site.
- 1Clear scope, milestones and deliverables.
- 2Transparent schedule logic and progress measurement.
- 3Coordination across operations, maintenance and contractors.
- 4Resource planning and early visibility of critical-path risks and work-readiness gaps.
Technical toolset and system expertise
Advanced working knowledge of the systems used across oil and gas turnaround and maintenance environments, applied inside your existing digital infrastructure.
- Primavera P6
- Critical-path methodology, schedule health diagnostics, interface alignment and multi-project integration.
- SAP and SAP S/4HANA
- Work-order creation, preventive maintenance scheduling, material tracking and data integrity.
- IBM Maximo
- Asset hierarchy navigation, job plan building, work-order management and master equipment list (MEL) configuration.
- Prometheus
- Planning and scheduling workflow optimization for turnarounds and maintenance execution.
- Power BI
- Custom dashboards, progress tracking analytics, resource-capacity forecasting and executive reporting.
- Microsoft Project
- Schedule development and tracking for smaller scopes and project-controls support.
Engagement models
Support is scoped around your turnaround, outage or project-controls requirement, for the teams below.
Choterra supports:
- Industrial operators.
- Asset owners.
- Facility maintenance departments.
- Maintenance and reliability teams.
- Industrial operations.
Available engagements
- Project-based scheduling support. A defined scope, deliverables and timeline for a turnaround, outage or schedule review.
- Contract scheduling professionals. Experienced schedulers working inside your team for the duration of a project.
- Independent scheduling consulting. An objective view of schedule quality, logic and execution readiness.
- Additional scheduling capacity for peak workloads. Short-term support when demand exceeds your in-house team.
Additional service
Asset Register & Master Equipment List Development
Choterra helps industrial operators establish, validate and improve equipment information to support effective maintenance management, preventive maintenance programs and maintenance execution.
Our services include:
- Master Equipment List (MEL) development.
- Asset register development and cleanup.
- Physical equipment identification and field verification.
- Equipment tagging and verification.
- Equipment hierarchy development.
- Equipment data validation and reconciliation.
- Equipment identification against available engineering drawings and P&IDs.
- SAP and Maximo equipment data preparation.
- Maintenance data readiness assessments.
- Identification of missing or incomplete equipment records.
Building the Foundation for Effective Maintenance Management
Accurate equipment information is essential to effective maintenance management.
Incomplete equipment registers, inconsistent equipment hierarchies and outdated asset information can affect preventive maintenance programs, work management and maintenance execution.
Choterra helps industrial organizations establish reliable equipment information through structured data development, equipment verification and Master Equipment List optimization.
Our goal is to provide maintenance teams with accurate, organized equipment information that supports better maintenance decisions.
What We Deliver
- Structured Master Equipment List.
- Equipment identification and verification records.
- Equipment hierarchy and classification.
- Equipment tag reconciliation.
- Asset register gap assessment.
- Identified data deficiencies.
- Recommendations for equipment data improvement.
- Structured information suitable for client CMMS/EAM data preparation.
Our Approach
Step 1 – Existing Information Review
Review available equipment registers, maintenance records, engineering drawings and existing asset information.
Step 2 – Field Verification
Conduct a physical equipment walkdown to verify equipment identification, tags and installed equipment against available documentation.
Step 3 – Data Development & Validation
Develop or improve the Master Equipment List, equipment hierarchy and associated asset information.
Step 4 – Final Deliverables
Provide the completed equipment register, identified gaps and recommendations for maintaining accurate asset information.
Looking to Improve Your Asset Information Foundation?
Contact Choterra to discuss equipment register development, asset information improvement or a focused equipment verification project.
Let's strengthen your schedule.
Preparing for a major turnaround, managing maintenance backlogs or need experienced scheduling support? Connect with Choterra to discuss your requirements.
Get in touch with Choterra Scheduling
- Direct email
- info@choterrascheduling.com
- Message us
- 587-575-1593
- Location
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada