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Operability Assurance (OA) program is expected to ensure timely and effective Operations involvement in upstream facility projects. OA is a structured process that assures projects deliver safe, operable, efficient, reliable and maintainable facilities. Typically 50-60 % operational problems are created by poor decisions in the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) phase. Lack of early Operations integration with Projects drove up expenditures in the operating phase. Insufficient Operations involvement in project potentially creates first year operability and maintainability issue. This paper describes OA work process and its engagement to Operations groups for ConocoPhillips Indonesia major projects to minimize first year operability and maintainability issue. OA has role to engage and integrate Operations involvement in major projects, in this paper Sumpal Compression Project is taken as case study. In Sumpal Compression Project, the Operations involvement is started since beginning of the project, in this case is FEED phase. In the beginning of the project, OA identified the maintenance and reliability (M&R) requirements – as guided by ConocoPhillips OA principles – as one of the critical path to achieve success in first year operability and maintainability issue. Lack information of M&R requirements will lead to incomplete asset register, incomplete maintenance program, and long delivery time due to unavailable spare parts. M&R requirements are included into Project design and Project deliverables which will be delivered by EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) company. The M&R requirements are relatively new to EPC companies in Indonesia and it is challenge for ConocoPhillips Indonesia to “educate” potential EPC companies during bidding process. One of OA focus is in manpower loading of M&R requirements, therefore EPC companies will prepare and manage sufficient manpower and budget for this purpose. By embedding those requirements into document contract, change order – which is usually high cost – can be avoided.