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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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,… Read More
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,… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
Learning & Development | March 12, 2025 Reduce Production Downtime with Procedure Executio... In oil and gas production, every hour a unit is offline incurs significant costs. There is a substantial financial impact… Read More
Strategic Business Planning | March 5, 2025 The Value of an Annual Health Check for Your Refin... In the fast-moving world of petroleum refining, Linear Programming (LP) models are the backbone of decision-making. These models guide production… Read More
Fired Heater Services | February 25, 2025 Behind the Scenes: The Methodology of Becht’s PE... By Grant Jacobson and Jan Zander This is the second article in a series about PEAK (Practical Energy Assessment Kit),… Read More
