Critical Role of the Owner’s Team in Capital Project Success

The critical role of the owner’s team can’t be understated. The owner may choose to contract out certain activities like commissioning but the accountability for activities cannot be handed off. The following is just a summary of many of the owner-led activities. Critical Owner’s Team Activities Establishing the owner’s team begins with appointing the manufacturing […]

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Becht Production Assurance, Operating Modes Assessment

With contributing authors Stephen DeLude and Bruce Scott.   It can be said that any project is judged on three principal outcomes: On budget Completed onschedule and Operates and produces product as expected.   During the early development phases of a new industrial plant, the main focus is to develop a steady state case with consideration […]

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Developing A Hydrocarbon Loss Management Culture To Realize Constant Benefits

When you think of your Hydrocarbon Loss Management practice, what comes to mind?  Is it tanks, meters, commercial transactions, hydrocarbon accounting tools, the financial close process, or some other related activity?  Additional questions might be, what are the benefits that your company derives from your Hydrocarbon Loss Management practice?  What goals do you satisfy?  What […]

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Production Assurance for Investors and Owners of Low Carbon Mega-Projects

with contributing author Victor Stroud  At Becht, we get involved in Capital Projects of all shapes, sizes and complexities.  Traditional oil companies, both big and small, generally follow the Front-End Loading (FEL) process and utilize some sort of gate keeping system to revalidate the business case and to monitor and ensure that the managing process […]

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Bad Actor Elimination Through Cooperation, Collaboration and Trust

Recently published in the Inspectioneering Journal. Two heads are better than one, as the old saying goes. However, this adage only works if the two heads trust each other and are interested in working together to solve a problem. Elimination of chronic bad actors in hydrocarbon processing facilities is much more important than egos, silos, […]

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Improving the Quality of Detailed Engineering for Construction Work

An Engineering Vendor’s Approach to Measuring and Improving the Quality of its Construction Deliverables The quality of detailed engineering deliverables for construction work can be confirmed using several methods, including checks and reviews by the client, in this case an operating manufacturing plant.  One engineering consultant committed to improving the quality of its work on […]

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Mitigate Risk and Maximize Potential

WE SOLVE YOUR CHALLENGES, PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT AND HELP DELIVER YOUR PROJECT. Projects are complex. Delays are expensive. Our independent ‘cradle to the grave’ governance program identifies risk, provides solutions, and helps prevent expensive delays. Data collected by the Independent Project Analysis group from thousands of major projects around the world shows: An average $100m […]

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Rapid Project Implementation

A project management team was tasked with speeding up the installation of a large number of high-return opportunities by altering their current work process.  This was accomplished by meticulously mapping out the existing project development and execution work processes, identifying where steps could be eliminated or significantly overlapped, and fully understanding and accepting the business […]

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