November 2015
Risk Management
Improve plant operations with enterprise technology
In early 2009, the author was asked a rhetorical question by a senior executive with a major international oil company: “How do you run a business when your product unit price rises from $60/bbl to $140/bbl in the space of 14 months, and then drops to $40/bbl in less than six months?”
The Author
Mike Neill is the president of Petrotechnics North America. With his 35-year background in operations working for BP and throughout his career at Petrotechnics, Mr. Neill has helped improve safety and performance management for oil and gas organizations around the world. He is a member of CCPS, AIChE, GPA, ASSE, AFPM and OESI, and an active member of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center steering committee at Texas A&M University.
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