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Gulf Coast Refinery Turnaround Becht Engineering mobilized Advisors to Louisiana to supplement a Client’s operations organization during a 45-day, fourth quarter 2015 turnaround. The planned outage included cleaning the pyro-fractionator coke fines, replacing the internals of a 5-stage gas compressor, cleaning, inspecting and making tie-ins for a flare recovery system, complete re-traying of an ethylene […]
Valero’s Three Rivers Refinery is a 400-acre site with a total throughput capacity of approximately 100,000 barrels per day. It is located midway between San Antonio and Corpus Christi, in the heart of the southeast Texas shale oil counties, most notably the Eagle Ford Shale formation. When the first members of the Becht Engineering team […]
Rich Basile joined Becht Engineering in June 2012, after his retirement from ExxonMobil Research and Engineering. During his career at EMRE, Mr. Basile was the Commercial Technology Owner for Pressure Vessels, Fluid Solids and Advanced Analysis/FFS, responsible for the mechanical design, analysis and technology development for ExxonMobil pressure vessels and other equipment in units such […]
The Valero Port Arthur Refinery was commissioned in 1901 and has had many process additions and improvements in its history. It has a total throughput capacity of 310,000 MBD. The refinery is strategically located on the Texas Gulf Coast, approximately 90 miles east of Houston. Manuel Lozano has over 40 years of experience in Heavy […]
My assignment as a Heavy Lift and Rigging Advisor was to observe and consult with the client onsite during the lift and assembly of the Process Tower (52-V01). My assignment was thought to be 14 days or less. The Project’s plan was to lift the base section of the tower and set on the foundation […]
Given the recent, significant increase in requests received from Clients for capital project and turnaround support, we recently created a Nomination Coordinator position within Advisor Resources. Nataly Thompson has been moved into that new role, and will serve as the primary point of contact with Advisors to discuss your interest and availability for new opportunities, […]
Advisor Resources welcomed Lauren Rose to our Baytown team on December 4, 2013, as our new Onboarding Coordinator. Her responsibilities include signing up new Advisors, entering and updating Advisor contact information and availability in our various systems, announcing new Advisors to the remainder of the Company to acquaint us with their experience and areas of […]
The Marine Well Containment Company is a non-profit venture formed by ExxonMobil, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell and ConocoPhillips in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Approximately 40 engineers from four of the world’s largest oil companies came together to design a rapid-response system to capture and contain up to 100,000 barrels per day of […]
PetroLogistics is a major producer of propylene and is the only independent dedicated propylene producer in the United States. PetroLogistics owns and operates the world’s largest propane dehydrogenation facility, based on production capacity, located in the vicinity of the Houston Ship Channel. Becht Engineering supplemented the Owner’s Team during an October 2013 turnaround, which was […]