Outages/Turnarounds
Plant outages/turnarounds are a substantial contributor to the overall cost structure of any plan fraught with costs due to the complex, expensive and risky nature of outages/turnarounds. Impacts on plants can be tremendous:
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Lost revenue while a plant/unit is shutdown
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Critical path items/project delays
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Safety hazards
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Coordination and scheduling complexities
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Maintaining qualified team members
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Startup, Testing, and Turnover
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Continued market pressures to do more with less
BCP understands these issues as we have worked in supporting outages/turnarounds since the beginning of our company in 1981. We understand that having the technical team members is only one component that makes for a successful, on-time, and on-budget outage/turnaround. We know it requires:
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Excellence in communication and coordination
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Rigorous processes and controls
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Contractor/team visibility
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Qualified resource management
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Maintaining plant knowledge
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BCP excels in outage/turnaround engineering and management. Our capabilities extend across all outage/turnaround areas that include:
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Project planning and management services to support engineering, construction, outage activities, startup, and operational readiness phases of the outage project
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Extensive experience in effectively applying sophisticated scheduling programs such as primavera to support these initiatives.
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Technical and professional engineering expertise such as configuration management, turbine generator outage, pipe stress analysis, chemistry, and radiological control, to name a few.
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Substantial experience in vendor performance management
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Development of design specifications
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Design/construction and testing services
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Vendor surveillance during the manufacture of equipment or the development of services
