Fired Heater Services | September 21, 2017 Are Your Heaters Affecting Your Reliability?... From a process standpoint, your Fired Equipment items are not only some of the most critical but some of the… Read More
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | September 8, 2017 CalOSHA Update – Damage Mechanism Reviews (DMR)... On May 18, 2017, the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Occupational Safety and Health Standards (CalOSHA) board approved a new… Read More
Crude Refining & Production | September 5, 2017 Bad Actor Elimination Program Works…Inspecti... Rick Hoffman, Director Mechanical Integrity for Becht, was published in the July/August 2017 edition of the Inspectioneering Journal. Rick's two blogs… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | September 4, 2017 Reliability Beliefs – Driving Organizational... This is the second in a series of Blogs on improving plant reliability performance through improvement in culture, programs and… Read More
Capital Projects | August 24, 2017 Elements of a Super Heavy Lift Execution Manual... Making A Super Heavy Lift? Here's What You Need To Know If you are making a single super lift or… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | July 11, 2017 Capacity Reduction of a Compression Member with an... A recent review of equipment installed in a power plant found a piping strut that was visibly bent. Would the… Read More
Process Technology | June 24, 2017 Process Safety Management and YOU... Walking the Walk…Management Commitment My assumption is if you are reading this, you have some involvement in, or responsibility for,… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | June 19, 2017 Making Bad Actor Elimination Programs Work... This is the first in a series of Blogs on improving plant reliability programs through improvements in culture, programs and… Read More
Crude Refining & Production | June 15, 2017 Due Diligence – Front End Loading for Plant ... In many cases operating companies and financial institutions utilize Due Diligence studies for critical input on “Go/No Go” decisions for… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | March 30, 2017 Fitness-For-Service API 579-1/ASME FFS-1: Substant... Contributing Authors: Eileen Chant, Greg Epremian, Ranjan Nadarajah, Mark Stonehouse Summarized herein are the substantial changes to API 579-1/ASME FFS-1,… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | February 9, 2017 Loads on Buried Pipe: A 100-Year Old Empirical Fo... The evaluation of the effects of surcharge loads on buried pipes can be addressed using the Iowa formula. This formula,… Read More
Mechanical Engineering | December 29, 2016 Piping Settlement Screening Tool... Settlement of a pipe support foundation is usually not a big deal to assess. A local piping flexibility model will… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | December 15, 2016 Storage Tanks – Maintenance & Reliabili... The safe operation, maintenance and reliability of roofs in large tanks, does require special considerations in their design, construction and… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | December 15, 2016 Risk Based Work Selection (RBWS) – An Essential ... Turnarounds (TA) in refining units are executed periodically, on a planned basis, to meet multiple objectives, such as regulatory compliance,… Read More
Machinery | December 5, 2016 Your Pump’s Mean Time Between Repairs (MTBR)... Many of the tourist spots around the world have panhandlers. Some of the more creative ones stand on street corners… Read More
