Process Technology | March 25, 2026 Bowtie Risk Analysis Explained for Process & ... A bowtie diagram is a visual risk management tool that identifies threats, preventive controls, consequences, and recovery measures associated with… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | March 24, 2026 What Refiners Should Prioritize During Volatile Ma... Market volatility increases the economic consequences of operational instability. The ability to run predictably and take advantage of margin spikes… Read More
Strategic Business Planning | March 24, 2026 How Refiners Can Respond to Market Shocks: What Ma... Geopolitical conflict in energy-exporting regions does not affect all refiners equally – it redistributes advantage. The current situation in the… Read More
Process Technology | March 11, 2026 How Should You Conduct an FCC Catalyst Study?... An FCC catalyst study can be conducted as either a paper study or a laboratory test. Paper studies compare supplier… Read More
Becht News | February 19, 2026 Becht Approved as AspenTech Partner Service Provid... Becht has been approved as an AspenTech Partner Service Provider, recognizing our company as an expert-level developer of client simulation… Read More
Process Technology | November 24, 2025 How Often Should You Tweak Your Catalyst or Conduc... By Richard Grove and Adrian Humphries Becht’s new Fun with FCC Catalyst series takes a conversational look at how catalyst… Read More
Process Technology | October 15, 2025 How to Implement an Operations Excellence Manageme... As we discussed in Part One and Part Two of this series, an operations excellence management system (OEMS) that is… Read More
Process Technology | October 8, 2025 Best Practices for Chemical Cleaning Hydroprocessi... Everyone knows a chemical cleaning vendor, and you may have met many different vendors who offer a variety of chemicals… Read More
Capital Projects | September 23, 2025 Why Responsiveness Is So Critical in Oil & Ga... By Jean-Gaël Le Floc'h with contributions from Marisa Fedele A recently replaced FCC regenerator develops a hot spot. The engineering… Read More
Process Technology | August 13, 2025 Core Components of an Effective OEMS in High-Hazar... In Part One of this series, we discussed organizing your business documentation within the framework of an operations excellence management… Read More
Turnaround, Maintenance & Reliability | July 16, 2025 How Seconded Experts Support High-Stakes Projects ... Refineries and petrochemical facilities are no strangers to complex challenges. Whether it’s a major turnaround, a new unit coming online,… Read More
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 | 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
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
Process Technology | March 19, 2025 Preparation of Slurries: Powder Wettability and Ot... In this article I write about process technologies for preparation of slurries, AKA “solids in suspension,” and the considerations that… Read More
