Project Management
Should you change to contract maintenance and operations?
Here are the major considerations and contractor evaluation tips
Survival guide for a fieldwork assignment
Here are practical tips to help prepare for a journey to the real world of process plants
Treat a drawings update program as a healthy investment
Having access to detailed, current engineering designs is essential for the safety and efficiency of process plants
Behavior-based technology is the next step to operations excellence
This approach can increase productivity and reduce errors to optimize output
Quality tools produce desired results
Use these proven techniques throughout all job phases as you manage your teams
Quality tools produce desired results Fig 1
Fig. 1. "Road map" displays by project phase which technique is most effective to produce desired results. ..
A new breed of e-commerce engine drives profits
For technology to be valuable to HPI players, it must give them the tools to make and execute the right decisions, rather than provide a faster means of making the wrong ones
Ergonomics is still good business
Though legislation in the U.S. has stalled, these principles and resources can be applied to improve productivity
Predict contaminant concentrations in deaerator-vent emissions
Here is a tool to estimate maximum concentrations of contaminants in hydrogen-plant condensate
Petrochemical plant costs for the new millennium
Updated cost and capacity data facilitate more accurate economic evaluations of HPI enterprises
- Valero Energy Q4 profit beats estimates; shares surge 1/30
- Dow launches "Transform to Outperform" to raise the competitive industry benchmark for productivity and growth to enable improved returns 1/30
- Russian oil refineries' peak maintenance expected in January and September 1/30
- U.S. lifts some Venezuela sanctions to ease oil sales 1/30
- Keppel, Aster plan sustainable aviation fuel project in Singapore 1/30
- Boeing, Israel's Technion to develop sustainable aviation fuel, as sector grapples with 2050 goal 1/30

