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
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
Crude Refining & Production | February 25, 2022 A Step in the Right Direction... Most of us have heard of the benefits of walking at least 10,000 steps a day. Weight loss and heart… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | February 10, 2022 The Best Path To Maintenance Cost Reduction... While most organizations acknowledge a link between maintenance and reliability, the maintenance and reliability departments are often held within separate… Read More
Learning & Development | February 7, 2022 Becht + RPS Partnership = World Class Training Exp... Becht is proud to announce the integration of RPS Training into our Becht catalog of training courses. Bob Campagna and… Read More
Crude Refining & Production | February 2, 2022 Do You Look Both Ways Before Crossing a One-Way St... I do. Why? It’s a lesson that was burned into my brain as a child. “Look both ways before you… Read More
Midstream Services | January 20, 2022 Becht Hosts First Tank Summit... The storage of liquids is crucial in the current supply chain landscape, and in the framework of the current environmental… Read More
Crude Refining & Production | January 5, 2022 Bad Actor Elimination Through Cooperation, Collabo... Recently published in the Inspectioneering Journal. Two heads are better than one, as the old saying goes. However, this adage… Read More
Capital Projects | January 3, 2022 Improving the Quality of Detailed Engineering for ... An Engineering Vendor’s Approach to Measuring and Improving the Quality of its Construction Deliverables The quality of detailed engineering deliverables… Read More
Capital Projects | September 22, 2021 Rapid Project Implementation... A project management team was tasked with speeding up the installation of a large number of high-return opportunities by altering… Read More
Capital Projects | June 15, 2021 Measuring Construction Rework & Delays In Sus... Evaluating Rework and Delays Can Help Improve the Schedule Predictability of Construction Projects While Reducing Costs The construction industry's challenge… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | April 12, 2021 Why Doesn’t a Great Maintenance Process Equal Gr... In Part 1 we observed that some of the best results come from organizations with poor maintenance work processes and… Read More
