oil refinery turnaround preparation
oil refinery turnaround preparation
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I would like to have forum feed back up dated experiences on oil refinery turnaround preparation. Site web articles and presentations would be appreciated.
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Luis





RE: oil refinery turnaround preparation
RE: oil refinery turnaround preparation
Any feedback or presentation on this subject would be appreciated.
Regards
Luis Marques
RE: oil refinery turnaround preparation
First IMHO you should define the order of priorities of the objectives you mention. The usual order is:
1. safety
2. quality
3. time
4. money
but depending on the circumstances you may opt for a different order but it's important that everybody is aware as it makes decision-taking easier.
I have good experience with dividing the refinery into areas and have multifuncional (PMT) teams manage them (both preparation and execution). After having given these teams their objectives, the TA management team should only supervise them and not mess with details unless things go out of control.
Some work should be centralised, like off-site heat exchanger cleaning, and there should obviously be site coordinators e.g. for transport (where to put the cranes), but the more responsibility is delegated to people actually out on the units, the faster and more smoothly things (should) go.
RE: oil refinery turnaround preparation
- find and fix, or
- find and go on
If this is not clarified, then the teams will be off doing different things.
One solution that has worked well is all the fixing is done during day shift (all the trades are usully available during the day), regardless of which option the checkout teams follow.
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RE: oil refinery turnaround preparation
We are going to start preparing our next main turnaround, which will take place somewhere in 2008. We will start with workshops involving people from inspection, technology, process operations, engineering, maintenance and safety.
We have already defined the main big works and now with the outputs from RBI crossed with historic inspections reports and inspectors experience we will define a PIE (inspection plan testing for each equipment item).
With these PIE´S we will obtain the previous turnaround equipment list.
After that in workshops forums, unit-by-unit we will discuss that previous equipment list to achieve a consensus for the final detailed turnaround equipment list.
After revision of all PIE according to final turnaround equipment list we will send them 1,5 year before turnaround date to maintenance planning for contractors purchase and materials procurement. With the definition of the critical path the planning process will be close six months before turnaround start date.
As soon as contractors are selected we will promote meetings to discuss work details, related with process shut down, safety, inspection, planning and maintenance so that the turnaround scheduling of each contractor be aligned with turnaround critical path.
Any feedback, presentation or others experiences on this subject would be appreciated.
Does any one knows what is application of Emotional Intelligence ( EQ) for much labour intensive jobs like Column Tray replacement for much labour intensive jobs like Column Tray replacement?
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Luis Marques
RE: oil refinery turnaround preparation
if you send a guy into a smelly and dirty place where he will suffer from a bizarre mixture of claustrophobia and vertigo, especially at night, to do stupid work with nobody to supervise him, EQ will lead you to consider the possibility that his quality standards will drop very soon to an unacceptable level. As an example, when he discovers bolts that he cannot loosen, he will cut them, he will then forget to take new ones with him to replace them and will close the manways using only the remaining bolts. During the TA after that, you and your engineering team will spend 50 manhours on how the heck all those manways have been blown out.
EQ means (I guess) putting yourself in the place of another person rather than being surprised about his behaviour after the fact.
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This is my understanding for the meaning of Emotional Intelligence ( EQ)
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Luis
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Don Carriere
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If there is no supervision present these musicians will only play when some white hat is coming. Hammering a layer of coke has nothing romantic. Imagine the guys inspecting the waterseal of the flare, it stinks!! The supervisor there must have the face and the manners of mean pitbull, or else he will be devoured by the craft.
Not to talk about the guy that is smoking near a open pit, with the sewers full of flamable stuff, or the crew that is breaking a line while on a plaform 6 feet higher someone is playing with a torch.
Probably you will have 5 times your normal workforce on site, and probably they won't go to church on sunday morning.
Put someone with weight in charge to be the mobile equipment coordinator (this person calls the shots where and when the cranes, forklift trucks, lifts go) because everybody wants the same equipment at the same time.
It is stress