Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | December 6, 2021 Leadership Lessons In Outage Work Selection, Plann... As production outages become costlier and can result in significant profit loss, the need for these to be planned and… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | November 1, 2021 Controlling Your Maintenance Turnaround Scope, fro... In the November 2021 online edition of “The Chemical Engineer” magazine, Gordon discusses the need to keep turnaround scope to a manageable size… Read More
Strategic Business Planning | October 26, 2021 First Principles of Energy Transition – An Unbi... Contributing authors: Jean-Gaël Le Floc’h, Mel Larson and Darren York Energy Transition – Where do we go from here? In… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | October 11, 2021 Contracting for Plant Outages... ~ A Comprehensive Contracting Plan is an Important Building Block to a Successful Plant Outage ~ During planned maintenance outages,… Read More
Becht News | October 6, 2021 Renewable Plant Integration Presented at AFPM Summ... The AFPM Summit’s Profitability Session presented an interesting delve into “Optionality in Refining and Petrochemicals to Meet Renewables and Energy… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | September 30, 2021 Getting Your Maintenance Turnaround Preparations o... In the October 2021 edition of “The Chemical Engineer” magazine, Gordon discusses the value of setting up key foundation documents at the… 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
Corrosion, Materials & Integrity | September 16, 2021 From the Top: Proactively Planning Different Crude... The business need for working with opportunity crudes in refinery unit operations, an essential aspect of crude blending and crude… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | September 13, 2021 Keeping Your Scaffolding Under Control During a Tu... Contributing Authors: Charles Maier and Gordon Lawrence During any maintenance work or turnarounds, there will be a need to reach… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | September 8, 2021 Improving Cost Estimating for Maintenance Turnarou... In the September 2021 edition of “The Chemical Engineer” magazine, Gordon discusses the current poor state of turnaround cost estimating and highlights five,… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | August 27, 2021 Recommended Practices for Cost Estimating Maintena... ~ Writing a Basis of Estimate ~ The Recommended Practices issued by AACE International are widely recognized and have been adopted in… Read More
Strategic Business Planning | August 2, 2021 First Principles of Energy Transition – An Unbi... This is the first part of a two part article, as published in Decarbonisation Technology, August 2021 Contributing authors: Jean-Gaël… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | July 21, 2021 Quality Practices for Process Outages... This paper is an excerpt from the author’s contribution to a panel discussion at the Marcus Evans 9th Annual Chem/Petrochem… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | July 12, 2021 Integrating Capital Projects Into a Turnaround Eve... In the July 2021 online edition of “The Chemical Engineer” magazine, Gordon discusses how project teams are often blamed by turnaround managers for problems… Read More
Fired Heater Services | July 7, 2021 Leveraging Enhanced IR and Decoking Process Optimi... Editor’s Note: From the Top is a recurring column in Inspectioneering Journal that explores how different parts of organizations can… Read More
