An article on “Remote training of personnel”1 is interesting and appropriate at this time of COVID-19. It outlines the difficulties in presenting remote training courses and suggests methods that can help.
Refineries and petrochemical plants are comprised of a series of crucial processes to produce transportation fuels, products and chemicals demanded by the global market. These processes consist of capital-intensive units that must be maintained to provide reliable performance. Failure to adequately maintain these assets can have a detrimental effect to not only operations and profit, but also to worker safety.
Pressure vessels and piping constitute the maximum percentage of static equipment in any oil and gas facility.
The following describes how an adequate implementation of alarm management is a fundamental part in process safety management (PSM).
The flaring of gases released from normal process vents and safety valve discharges following an overpressure scenario is widely practiced in refineries, petrochemical and chemical plants.
Over the past five years, the industrial evolution has been propelled by the same technologies that have dramatically changed our private lives.
By universal agreement, the safety and reliability of facilities in the hydrocarbon processing industry—and most other industrial plants—are of highest importance.
The volatile impact of the coronavirus pandemic hit at the same time the petrochemical industry was entering a downcycle.
A critical objective of engineers who design an automatic protection system is to lower the false trip rate and to lower a key metric called average probability of failure on demand (PFDavg).
The HPI has been going through a digital transformation, increasingly adopting digital technologies to improve existing processes and structures to improve performance.