Oil Refining
September 27, 2020
A major midwestern refinery requests support from Nexus to replace a CO Boiler after experiencing three unplanned shutdowns in the past five years.
The unplanned shutdowns have lasted two days to multiple months, causing significant disruption to refinery operations. An inspection revealed that the tubes and drums were found to be past the typical design life of 30 years and would require replacement. Succesful completion of this project will improve operational efficiency at the refinery.
September 26, 2020
The objective of the project was to replace the aging and inefficient HDN Recycle Compressor with the least amount of deconstruction to its existing location.
Our client, a major global petroleum producer, sells 50 million gallons of fuel to more than 7,200 retail locations across the U.S. This midwest refinery can process up to 160,000 barrels of crude oil each day. Since 2016, the refinery has completed its largest maintenance turnaround in 40 years, along with the largest facility building project in its entire history. Both have helped the refinery improve safety and become more efficient in its use of ...
September 25, 2020
Major Nexus client seeking safety and efficiency improvements in new maintenance shop building on 12-acre site. Nexus was asked to assist in replacing on-site maintenance shops for one of its long-standing clients. Coordinating with various experts, Nexus helped complete the project on time and on budget. By working directly with the client and others, Nexus was able to improve their client’s safety and increase ...
September 24, 2020
Nexus helps to create the “United in Safety” sub-committee at BP Husky Refining in Toledo to improve electrical safety culture.
In 2015, BP Husky approached Nexus with the concept of creating a United In Safety sub-committee to review and oversee Instrumentation and Electrical safety issues at their refinery in Toledo. The sub-committee was successfully created, and three Nexus employees serve as members, one of which ...
September 23, 2020
Nexus works effectively with refinery team by providing temporary compression solution to capture lost margin. An unplanned refinery unit outage resulted in a nine to twelve-month loss of hydrogen compression capacity. While co-product hydrogen supply from another refinery unit remained available, the hydrogen compression outage led to a reduction in hydro-processing throughput, degradation of hydrogen to fuel and significant loss of product margin. The challenge was to safely, effectively and quickly capture lost hydroprocessing product margins in ...