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Maintenance & Reliability

Extracting business value from digitalization in oil and gas

Petasense: Bradley, D.

Most oil and gas companies are investing in digitalization; however, they often fail to move beyond proof of value (PoV) or pilot projects.

Engineering Case Histories: Case 110: A checklist for vibration analysis

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

Periodically, I receive questions from engineers around the world on why a piece of critical machinery is vibrating excessively.

High-pressure gas compressor dry gas seal system enhancement case study

Saudi Aramco: Al Dossary, F.  |  Al Turiki, A.  |  Al-Alshaikh, T.

The Khurais producing department (KhPD) consists of four oil trains: each oil train is responsible for receiving, stabilizing and purifying the crude oil from the wells by removing sand, water, gas and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) contents to make the oil ready for use and shipment to refineries.

Increase uptime by reducing systematic failure risk

Endress+Hauser: Siew, H.

Pondering the history of industrial incidents, it would be incorrect to assume that most failures occur randomly.

Reboiler pinch: An approach to optimize flare system design during FEED

Saudi Aramco: Amin, H.
Siemens: Dhote, P.  |  Kanade, S.

A process plant’s pressure relief and flare systems are critical safety elements.

Achieve process safety, asset integrity and reliability with an integrated HAZOP study

Independent Consultant: Chakravorty, S. L.

Abnormal situations in refining and petrochemical plant operations can interfere with plant reliability and efficient operations, especially for highly complex processes.

Safety: Addressing corrosion at petrochemical plants starts with carbon

Thermo Fisher Scientific: Dalton, B.

Maintaining the structural integrity of a pipeline is a significant investment of time and resources for organizations in the oil and gas industry.

Maintenance: Zero-based, custom-built, reliability-driven—A new kind of maintenance organization

Eastman Chemical Company: Reed, D.
Consultant: Thompson, M.

In the October 2018 issue of <i>Hydrocarbon Processing</i>, the authors published an article—“Improving plant performance by changing a maintenance culture”—describing the first two years of Eastman Chemical Co.’s Longview, Texas site’s journey to maintenance excellence, which began in 2016.

Reliability: Tips on marketing to the reliability-focused

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Technical writers and other communicators occasionally have cause to think about matters having to do with publication practices and why some publications have higher quality or more reader-relevant illustrations than others.

Business Trends: Autonomous operations in process manufacturing—Part 2

IBM Corp.: Agnihotri, R.

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate an autonomous operations (AO) vision, along with its feasibility, by conceptualizing a roadmap where meaningful progress can be achieved in a horizon of 3 yr–20 yr.