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Strategic Business Planning | June 17, 2025

Capturing Margins Through Timely and Accurate Crud...

Refineries face unprecedented complexity in crude procurement. Price volatility, geopolitical instability, and shifting crude slates have made traditional feedstock selection…

Process Technology | June 11, 2025

Why an Operations Excellence Management System (OE...

High-hazard industries – like oil and gas, chemical manufacturing, nuclear power, and mining – deal with processes and materials that…

Strategic Business Planning | June 4, 2025

Technical Due Diligence for Existing Assets: Ident...

By Tracy Sadowski with contributions from Rick Hoffman, Joseph Jacobs, Mel Larson, and Andrew Last Buying, upgrading, or selling an…

Strategic Business Planning | June 4, 2025

Technical Due Diligence for New Technologies: Redu...

By Tracy Sadowski with contributions from Rick Hoffman, Joseph Jacobs, Mel Larson, and Andrew Last Investing in a new technology…

Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | May 28, 2025

Shortening the Turnaround Window Through Efficient...

By Ralph Davies with contributions from Gordon Lawrence Maintenance turnarounds are an unavoidable part of operating a refinery, petrochemical plant,…

Learning & Development | May 21, 2025

Learning from Experience: Becht’s Expert Instruc...

At Becht, technical training isn’t just about presenting information—it’s about passing on decades of experience, lessons learned in the field,…

Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | May 14, 2025

The Impact of Proper Maintenance Planning and Sche...

I recently spent time with a client who had just introduced planner/schedulers into their maintenance work process with a focus…

Strategic Business Planning | May 7, 2025

Energy in a Pinch: How Did We Get Here?...

The 1970s was a period of spiraling energy prices, driven largely by the Arab oil embargo of 1973 and the…

Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | April 30, 2025

Why Do Equipment Failures Persist? The Answer Lies...

Let’s talk about something that’s always top of mind in our industry: equipment reliability. It’s not just a box to…

Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | April 23, 2025

So, You’ve Got IOWs—What’s Next?...

The refining and petrochemical industries have recently seen an increased focus on integrity operating windows (IOWs). The first edition of…

Learning & Development | April 16, 2025

Why Cutting Training in a Lower-Margin Environment...

With the current market volatility and economic uncertainty, many oil & gas companies are looking to tighten their budgets and…

Engineering Standards | April 9, 2025

Transforming Corporate Standards – Part 1: Why D...

Introduction Problem: You’ve modernized tools, optimized workflows, and embraced digital transformation to reduce risk and remain competitive—except in one critical…

Mechanical Engineering | April 2, 2025

Scaling Smarter: How Advanced Modeling Accelerates...

Process scale-up is the effort to take a chemical process that works at a smaller scale and design a version…

Mechanical Engineering | March 25, 2025

Life Management of PSA Vessels – Part 3: Life Ma...

This is the third and final part of the blog trilogy relating to life management of pressure swing absorber (PSA)…

Process Technology | March 19, 2025

Preparation of Slurries: Powder Wettability and Ot...

In this article I write about process technologies for preparation of slurries, AKA “solids in suspension,” and the considerations that…

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Capturing Margins Through Timely and Accurate Crud...

Why an Operations Excellence Management System (OE...

Technical Due Diligence for Existing Assets: Ident...

Technical Due Diligence for New Technologies: Redu...

Shortening the Turnaround Window Through Efficient...

Learning from Experience: Becht’s Expert Instruc...

The Impact of Proper Maintenance Planning and Sche...

Energy in a Pinch: How Did We Get Here?...

Why Do Equipment Failures Persist? The Answer Lies...

So, You’ve Got IOWs—What’s Next?...

Why Cutting Training in a Lower-Margin Environment...

Transforming Corporate Standards – Part 1: Why D...

Scaling Smarter: How Advanced Modeling Accelerates...

Life Management of PSA Vessels – Part 3: Life Ma...

Preparation of Slurries: Powder Wettability and Ot...

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Capturing Margins Through Timely and Accurate Crud...

Why an Operations Excellence Management System (OE...

Technical Due Diligence for Existing Assets: Ident...

Technical Due Diligence for New Technologies: Redu...

Shortening the Turnaround Window Through Efficient...

Learning from Experience: Becht’s Expert Instruc...

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The Impact of Proper Maintenance Planning and Sche...

Energy in a Pinch: How Did We Get Here?...

Why Do Equipment Failures Persist? The Answer Lies...

So, You’ve Got IOWs—What’s Next?...

Why Cutting Training in a Lower-Margin Environment...

Transforming Corporate Standards – Part 1: Why D...

Scaling Smarter: How Advanced Modeling Accelerates...

Life Management of PSA Vessels – Part 3: Life Ma...

Preparation of Slurries: Powder Wettability and Ot...