Project Management
Value proposition for oil accounting – Part 1
By deploying a sophisticated system, a refinery can reap benefits totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars/year
Look beyond traditional organizational structure
Production-centered design improves, sustains total plant performance
Achieve world-class maintenance turnarounds Table 1
  Table 1. Turnaround management process phases ..
Achieve world-class maintenance turnarounds
Incorporate these work processes and key elements
Integrated approach to materials management: a case study
Business process re-engineering provided a substantial improvement to this function
Integrated approach to materials management: a case study Table 3
  Table 3. Total improvement   ..
Why is it so difficult to combine experience and theory in business decisions?
Investigate the root cause for conflict between expectations and the modeling system
Joint ventures: managing proposals for collaborative successes
Use these techniques to force transparency, build inter-company trust and win projects
Unintended consequences: the costs of complexity
Unless the root causes of this dysfunction are identified and defeated, organizational problems will continue
Identify value-added work
Here's a review of core activities for initiating the 'right way to manage'
- ITT to acquire SPX Flow for > $4.77 B, expanding leadership in highly engineered components and adjacent flow technologies 12/5
- MOL Group introduces eco-friendly Bag-in-Box packaging for lubricants 12/5
- Addis Energy secures $8.3 MM to scale its transformative approach to low-cost ammonia production 12/5
- World Fuel Services supplies cruise line with waste-based biofuels 12/5
- Chevron announces $18 B-$19-B CAPEX budget for 2026 12/5
- Russia and India sign deal to build urea plant in Russia 12/5
