Chemical Plant Turnaround Schedule
A 38-day chemical plant turnaround tracked by shift and handed back a day early.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Gulf Coast
- Market
- Oil, Gas & Chemicals
- Our role
- Turnaround scheduling
- Size
- 38-day outage
- Delivery
- EPC
- Duration
- 10 months
- Completed
- 2024
What was at stake.
Every outage day is lost production. The scope included vessel inspections, exchanger bundles and a catalyst change, each with discovery risk. The previous turnaround had run eight days over.
What we did.
Beck Franklin's role: turnaround scheduling. We advise and measure; the contractor builds.
Scope freeze
We worked with operations to freeze scope early and schedule every work order in detail.
Shift-level schedule
The turnaround was scheduled by the shift, with critical path work staffed around the clock.
Discovery allowance
Inspection results were built in as decision points, with planned responses for likely findings.
Twice-daily updates
Progress was updated twice a day and reviewed at each shift change.
What the team delivered.
A turnaround is won in planning. We froze the scope early and scheduled every shift.
Turnaround scheduler, Beck Franklin
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