Process Technology | September 26, 2022 Cooling Tower Acceptance Testing... In a recent blog, August 8, 2022, the subject of an independent check-rate or rating of a cooling tower’s thermal… Read More
Crude Refining & Production | September 20, 2022 The Blue Angels – Precision Flying With No Room ... If you have the opportunity, I highly recommend watching the 1993 documentary “Blue Angels: Around the World at the Speed… Read More
Strategic Business Planning | September 12, 2022 The Evolution of Gasoline Blending... The workforce is changing rapidly and the people who will be blending gasoline at a refinery will have a different… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | September 7, 2022 What RBI Is and What It Isn’t... Risk-based Inspection (RBI) has been around the refining and petrochemical industry for many years. When the original task group was… Read More
Process Technology | August 8, 2022 Cooling Tower Thermal Performance Rating... A cooling tower is the largest heat exchanger in a plant, designed to remove heat from a process by a… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | July 27, 2022 How to Get Started on a Reliability Improvement Jo... When faced with a task of improving something, you assess the current situation, define the future state and determine the… Read More
Crude Refining & Production | July 22, 2022 Project Best Practices – Start-up of an Advanced... “What’s holding you back?” “How can I improve safety and productivity on my projects?” Great questions. Advanced Work Packaging, or… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | July 14, 2022 Independent Enterprise Risk Management Assessment ... Project Risk Assessments and Risk Management Assessments have proven repeatedly to be effective “tools” to ensuring the likelihood of a… Read More
Machinery | June 27, 2022 Character and Requirements for Accountability in M... The people side of component or system failures is rarely addressed, identified or corrected. Evaluation of the people side of… Read More
Process Technology | June 21, 2022 Consider Taking a Long-Term View in a Shortsighted... Production facilities are all about what can we produce today. Everything can be rushed. When problems arise, people want the… Read More
Crude Refining & Production | June 16, 2022 Moving From a Reactive Culture To a Proactive Cult... With Abby King Moving from a reactive to proactive culture is not an easy thing to do, partially because there… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | April 11, 2022 How to Select the Right Maintenance Metrics to Mea... A common phrase is “What’s measured is managed”. What’s also true is that measuring the wrong things can drive unintended… Read More
Crude Refining & Production | March 9, 2022 Pride Comes Before The Fall…... This is the second (and hopefully last) in a personal series on slips trips and falls. Many of you may… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | March 1, 2022 Breakthroughs in Predictive HTHA Life Assessment: ... Published in the Inspectioneering Journal, January/February 2022 Introduction Nearly two years ago, in an Inspectioneering Journal article, Practical HTHA Experience… Read More
Crude Refining & Production | August 30, 2017 Hurricane Harvey Recovery – Methodical Steps... I personally went through Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Ike during my career living in the Gulf Coast. Restarting our plants… Read More
