Adding Value #17

Posted on September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 by kent

Inadvertent valve opening is a scenario that comes up time and time again during process hazards reviews. An example of […]

Adding Value #16

Posted on June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 by kent

Sometimes operations have to make adjustments to account for issues with equipment performance. One recent example was a GSP type […]

Posted on June 12, 2020June 22, 2020 by kent

Garbage in equals garbage out. That’s an old saying but it still applies to many things. In this case it […]

Posted on May 15, 2020May 20, 2020 by kent

A gas plant was utilizing all their residue compressors to process 200 MMSCFD when it designed to have one as […]

Posted on May 1, 2020May 20, 2020 by kent

Interesting optimization finding. A gas plant was operating in what appeared to be pretty good shape. Ethane recoveries were right […]

Posted on April 17, 2020June 12, 2020 by kent

A new plant was started up recently and instead of getting ethane recoveries in the mid 90% range as expected, […]

Posted on April 3, 2020May 20, 2020 by kent

A few months after start-up a plant was having problems with high refrigeration condensing pressure. The first step was to […]

Posted on March 20, 2020May 20, 2020 by kent

We recently visited a gas plant whose ethane recoveries were suffering. The plant personnel said they knew what the problem […]

Posted on March 6, 2020May 20, 2020 by kent

How does this get designed this way? How does this get through multiple reviews including PHA’s without being noticed? How […]

Posted on November 20, 2015November 20, 2015 by kent

Client received EPC bids from two contractors. While the client was reviewing commercial terms, schedule, etc. RCE performed a technical […]