Root Cause Analysis (RCA) With the measurement of the KPI’s in place chronic areas of failure will be highlighted and need investigation. The traditional methodology for this is Root Cause Analysis. Most oil and gas companies are well trained in root cause analysis and people are proactive in conducting RCA on the occurrence of failure. This satisfies engineers innate need to problem solve. The issues we encounter are that the cost benefit of the root cause analysis is rarely established at the start. Furthermore the analytical data required for the cost benefit of the resulting mitigations which have rightly been identified by the RCA did not support the Engineering Change. In many instances the same failure will happen again in the future because the mitigation
