Ayral, T.
What are the financial savings from a refinery cybersecurity program?
Environment & Safety
/ Maintenance & Reliability
/ Process Control
/ Process Optimization
/ Refining
/ Engineering & Design
/ Information Systems
/ Loss Prevention
/ Management
Recently, the authors developed a first-pass financial estimate of the savings resulting from the implementation of a cybersecurity program for a 100-Mbpd refinery.
Case history: Quantifying the benefits of alarm management
Environment & Safety
/ Process Control
/ Process Optimization
/ Americas
/ Asia/Pacific
/ Construction
/ Engineering & Design
/ Equipment
/ Europe
/ Information Systems
/ Loss Prevention
/ Management
/ Middle East
/ Safety
By using timely alarms that lead an operator to corrective actions, the goals are to improve plant safety, to increase efficiency and to reduce environmental constraint limit violations.
Operator training simulators for brownfield process units offer many benefits
Using very conservative estimation methods, the estimated benefits for operator training simulators (OTS) show a return on investment certain to surpass the typical corporate investment hurdle rate.
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Construction Boxscore: Project Spotlight
Project:
Long Son Petrochemicals Complex
Location:
Long Son, Vietnam
Operator:
Siam Cement Group
Cost:
$5.4 B
Capacity:
1.65 MMtpy
Completion date:
2023
Status:
Under Construction