Service — Compliance

RAGAGEP compliance roadmaps

What RAGAGEP is, in plain terms

RAGAGEP stands for Recognized And Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practice. It's the body of codes, standards, and published engineering practice — ASME, API, NFPA, IIAR, manufacturer specifications, and similar sources — that defines how process equipment is supposed to be designed, installed, inspected, and maintained.

If your facility is covered by OSHA's Process Safety Management standard or the EPA's Risk Management Program, "mechanical integrity" isn't a suggestion. You are expected to maintain equipment consistent with RAGAGEP, and to be able to show that you do. For many biogas and RNG facilities — built fast, modified often, run lean — the gap between the paperwork and the physical plant is where the risk lives.

What a gap assessment covers

• Walk-down of process equipment: vessels, piping, compressors, engines, relief devices, instrumentation, and safety systems
• Review of design documentation against what's actually installed
• Inspection, testing, and preventive maintenance records against RAGAGEP-required frequencies
• Equipment-specific standards applicable to your process, including H₂S-bearing service considerations
• Identification of deficiencies, rated by consequence and urgency — not a flat list of everything that's imperfect

What you receive

A written gap assessment and a prioritized roadmap. Each finding states the gap, the standard it falls short of, why it matters, and what closing it looks like — sequenced so the items that reduce the most risk come first, and the achievable items don't wait behind the expensive ones. It's written to be used: by you, by your maintenance contractor, and in front of an auditor.

Implementing PHA recommendations

I'm Derek Hoyt. Alongside RAGAGEP gap assessments, I can help implement Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) recommendations. That means turning recommendations into practical equipment, maintenance, and documentation work, sequenced around plant operations, planned outages, and budget constraints. The aim is to address the identified hazards and reduce plant downtime — not simply produce another report.