A Largest Coastal Refinery in US Achieves 50% Savings on Output Generation and Resource Management Costs, and Experiences 99.9% Accurate Cataloguing

The Client:

The client is the largest coastal refinery located primarily in the eastern part of United States operating three of the largest refineries in North America.

The Business Situation:

The client required a quick turnover for listing piping instrumentation indexes in the maintenance and modification of the process and to demonstrate the physical sequences of equipment and systems.

The Challenges:

The challenges faced during the course the action were:

• To design a cost effective solution to catalogue and list piping instrumentation indexes for several units of existing Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&IDs)
• To design instrumentation loop diagrams in a specified format used for construction
• To assure all fundamental safety features are considered as absolute requirements for designing P&IDs to the complete elimination of errors and pitfalls

The Solution:

The final solution after a careful evaluation of the business requirement was drafted considering the following elements.

• Researching the client’s projects extensively to understand the scope and nature of the work and analyzing effective means for solution
• Deploying experienced process design engineers, and instrumentation and piping engineers to interpret the existing P&IDs precisely and resolve inherent problems of P&IDs
• Issuing critical P&ID review by the project team to assure P&IDs design meets the stated requirements
• Providing a tailor-made solution by improving the output format for more than 50,000 P&ID’s and Instrumentation Loop Diagrams

The Result:

The following were the outcomes of the assignment.

• 50% savings on cost of output generation and resource management
• 99.9% accurate cataloguing

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