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Project Management

Business Trends: Smart refineries—Leveraging data for operational intelligence

Tata Consultancy Services: Agrawal, M. D.  |  Morawala, A.

In the highly competitive, capital- and asset-intensive oil and gas industry, demand is growing for the implementation of information technology (IT) practices covering the following functional requirements.

Roundtable: The reality of process safety risk

Aberdeen Group: Cline, G.  |  Keim, K.
Petrotechnics North America: Neill, M.
Process Improvement Institute: Thomas, J.

Unavoidably, process safety risks are often managed in different parts of an organization.

Supply Chain: Integration—The next frontier in supply chain and production management

Honeywell: McDowell, D.  |  Dey, S.

Hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) companies have long used different applications to address their supply chain production management (SCPM) challenges.

Machinery: Soft skills and habits all machinery professionals must develop—Part 1

Consultant: Perez, R. X.

When I ask people that work around machinery, “How do you improve reliability?” they often tell me to buy better bearings, seals, monitors or some other hardware-based improvement.

Project Management: Bridging the gap in revamp projects—From business need to design basis

Arivergy LLC: Sivasubramanian, G.  |  Fleshman, J.

Revamp projects are notorious for scope creep, cost and schedule overruns.

Upgrade the ALARP model as a holistic approach to project risk and decision management

University of Salerno: Benintendi, R.  |  De Mare, G.

The ALARP (as low as reasonably practicable) model was developed by the UK Health and Safety Executive to establish and justify risk acceptability limits.

Schneider Electric, Claroty partner to address safety, cybersecurity challenges

NEW YORK — Claroty, in Operational Technology (OT) network protection, and Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, announced that they are partnering to address safety and cybersecurity challenges for the world's industrial infrastructure.

Rethinking the risk mitigation process and revitalizing operational safety

DuPont: Planche, S.

For the past 2 yr, oil prices have been in free-fall. At the time of writing, the WTI price is around $50/bbl, up slightly since OPEC’s May 2017 announcement to extend its September 2016 production cut of 2.2%.

Reliability: Identify top ways to weather weak market conditions

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

New Jersey-based Carmagen Engineering Inc., a member of Mistras Group Inc., is a highly respected consulting engineering and project management firm comprising experienced subject matter experts (SMEs).

Business Trends: Innovative commissioning and startup technologies for industrial projects

University of Nevada: Choi, J. O.
University of Texas: O'Connor, J. T.
Delta Air Lines: Winkler, M.

The performance of capital project facility commissioning, startup and initial operations often falls short of expectations, and the opportunity for innovative commissioning and startup technologies has yet to be discussed extensively.