Whitepapers

Conceptual estimating is in the spotlight as EPCs scramble to put forth the best possible bids for highly contested capital projects. Estimating teams are pressured to “hunker down” and develop very detailed estimates early in the process. This white paper explains why the focus on detail is often applied to the wrong aspects of an estimate. Download it now and learn how to break the pattern of getting lost in the details.

This paper discusses the technology used by an inspection company to locate fugitive hydrocarbon emissions at both onshore and offshore production facilities, and by doing so, helps its customers improve site safety, increase production profitability, and reduce the environmental impact of their operations.

By interpreting data from transmitters, you can minimize failures, reduce pump maintenance costs and process downtime, resulting in significant payback. Find out about:

• Pump challenges and how to solve them
• API piping plans
• Automation benefits and recommendations: How using wireless
  instrumentation can cut pump repair costs, minimize failures and reduce downtime — resulting in payback within a few months

Smart Commissioning is a technology-enabled process that drastically reduces commissioning time and effort decoupling the physical I/O design from the functional design. See how the advancements are far reaching and improve the full commissioning process from system design, to device binding and configuration, to testing and documentation.

In today’s press, there is no shortage of theories pertaining to oil price and associated impacts to the market. For those who are confident in their oil price predictions, we wish you the best in your lucrative and early retirement. For everyone else, it’s not a matter of certainty, but a focus on playing the odds. In order to safely risk your money, it's important to understand the various scenarios and look for improvement strategies.

This white paper explains how oil, petrochemical, and chemical facilities have complex systems with many potential points of failure, even the smallest of which can increase cost and risk if left untended. In order to identify and improve weak points in a system, a methodology must be applied in a consistent manner. Six Sigma, DMAIC, is a data-driven improvement cycle that achieve measurable, reproducible results. By applying Six Sigma principles, areas of cost and risk can be identified and rectified.

This white paper series analyzes the challenges operation teams are facing and the solutions they can leverage to achieve an efficient and productive path to improved operations performance. Explore six approaches using technology and service innovations that can improve operational efficiencies and run your plant more efficiently.

The new Sequential Multi-Objective Optimization (SMO) technology available in Aspen DMC3 is a step change improvement over traditional APC optimizers. The new algorithm enables users to specify APC controller objectives thereby eliminating any LP cost tuning. In this whitepaper learn how advances in APC technology enables engineers to eliminate tuning workflows for the entire lifecycle of the controller.