What's going on with all the refinery fires recently? Baytown seems to be a hot bed.
PJG last week
Baytown furnace - this weekend
Billings fire - 2022
Baytown explosion/fire - 2021
Baytown olefins plant - 2019
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Baton Rouge had major fired 5 years in a row, burning down major units or significant portions if major units. I'm surprised they haven't had any lately.
A root cause is average age of refineries.
EPA not approve new refineries for a few decades and bo-m - literally.
What is the cause ? PDS.
No one in the leadership thinks about long term anymore.
Everyone is only looking at the next assessment cycle.
Well said
Management is squeezing too hard for cost reductions. Loss of technical knowledge and not heeding guidance from few technical SMEs who still remain. Rewarding those who gamble with deferred maintenance hoping they will be promoted to next role before the consequences hit.
Easy. Darren's giving all the money to the investors and none to maintenance. This is the natural consequence of not maintaining your equipment.
Rotterdam this week too.
There is no glory or promotion in doing maintenance.
After disaster, big budgets and big promotions for rebuilding.
All big companies the same.
I’m confident our senior leaders will figure this out. You remember when DW and KM started their careers as contact engineers and worked their way up doing all the jobs to get the experience needed to run a complex manufacturing org? Neither do I.
We’re understaffed and under resourced what do you expect
That's what happens when T/A work list get shortens to keep things "on-time, on budget"....
infrastructure falls apart after 50-100 years.
no matter how much face paint you put on it.
just nature taking its course - even in south texass.