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Maintenance & Reliability

Extended vapor cloud analysis methodology—Part 1

PEMY Consulting: Myers, P. E.  |  Trotter, B.

The Buncefield explosion was the worst post World War 2 fire/explosion incident.

Confirm best practices for compressed air in refineries

Valin Corp.: Jett, R.

Within a refinery, four main utilities are considered essential to operations: electricity, natural gas, water and compressed air.

Determine root causes of undesirable petcoke properties from the DCU

Reliance Industries Ltd.: Gupta, A.  |  Daggupati, S.  |  Bisht, H.  |  Mandal, S.  |  Das, A. K.

The delayed coking unit (DCU) is the technology of choice for the upgrade of heavy hydrocarbon residues—i.e., bottom-of-the-barrel upgrading.

Maintenance and turnaround planning critical to successful ejector vacuum system operation

Graham Corp.: Johnson, E.

Steam ejector vacuum systems are generally considered to be reliable and require little maintenance.

Onsite

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Nichols, Lee

Dr. Kheng Lau, BP, presented the keynote address on using high-fidelity simulators for training on day two of Hydrocarbon Processing’s International Refining and Petrochemical Conference (IRPC) Americas.

Business Trends

AVEVA: Newton, M.

The oil and gas industry is at a turning point.

Roundtable: Digital transformation in oil and gas: Is the hype justified and is the industry going far enough?

Petrotechnics: Lehmann, S.
Reliance Industries Ltd.: Malladi, M.
Airswift: Marx, J.
McKinsey Energy Insights: Ward, R.

Digital transformation in oil and gas: Is the hype justified and is the industry going far enough?

Engineering Case Histories—Case 104: Energy in steam boiler explosions

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

Steam boiler explosions happen all over the world, as an internet search will reveal.

Reliability: Pre-select a multidisciplinary failure analysis provider

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Suppose you are among the average mid-size plants that simply cannot afford to hire, train or otherwise employ subject matter experts (SMEs) in every one of the different disciplines within your company.

Bringing Industry 4.0 to the terminal

Oceaneering International Inc.: Kessler, R.

The oil and gas industry is no stranger to the power of Industry 4.0 solutions that aggregate sensor and planning/forecasting data into a single shared view, as well as deliver valuable analytics and real-time alerting capabilities.