AFPM is pleased to announce that on February 21st we will kick-off a four-part webinar series on Benzene Waste Operations NESHAP (BWON). BWON has been a continuing focus of EPA enforcement activities and this training is intended to help ground company professionals in the history and other essentials of BWON compliance and enforcement. Taras Lewus (Atlas) and Dawn Neal (Tricord) have generously agreed to conduct the trainings, which will be geared towards environmental compliance professionals within your facilities. The hour-long webinars will each build on each other on February 21, February 28, March 7, and March 14.
This month’s webinar will showcase AFPM’s Fired Heater VR Simulation Pilot. The AFPM Fired Heater Training Simulation is an immersive product designed as a supplemental tool for fired heater safety training. The virtual reality and web simulation provide a high-level simulated experience of the processes and procedures used to light a four burner fired heater from cold the start. The Fired Heater VR Simulation is now available to AFPM members on the AFPM Safety Portal. We encourage you to utilize this simulation and let us know how you incorporate it into your training at your company/site. During this webinar, you will learn: • Overview of the AFPM Immersive Learning Committee and Projects • How to navigate the Safety Portal and access the VR Simulation Speakers: Tyler Veenstra, Marathon Petroleum Company, Refining Training & Development Manager Tim Chappell, Exxon Mobil Corporation, VR Training Portfolio Lead Abby Esterly, AFPM
Walk the Line (WTL) is about providing operators with the tools they need to understand the current operating state of the plant. Those tools are bundled into three pillars of Walk the Line: Operating Culture, Operational Continuity through Operational Discipline, and Operational Readiness. Every year, Walk the Line hosts a Workshop focused around one of those three Pillars. This year's WTL Workshop's theme is Conduct of Operations. During this month's Safety webinar, you will: • Get an overview of AFPM's Walk the Line program and how to utilize the WTL Toolbox to get started at your site. • Hear a leadership perspective of the importance of Walk the Line and empowering the front lines • Learn about Walk the Line's available resources including the new Digital Procedures Implementation Checklist • Preview of the theme and sessions for this year’s Walk the Line Face to Face Workshop. Speakers: Lawrence Moreaux, LyondellBasell, Director of Digital Technology Integration Raymond Chafin, PEMEX Deer Park, Vice President of Technology
This webinar explores the issue of making data driven open loop models for a complete plant. This involves many independent and dependent variables and the task is to find meaningful and reproducible relationships between them. This webinar will help anyone involved in the task in the refinery, petrochemicals, or any continuous processing unit.
This month's Safety Webinar will feature two AFPM Innovation Award winning practices including, A Systematic Screening Program for “Low-Priority” Process Safety Incidents from Marathon Petroleum Company, and the Rotating Equipment Monitoring Transformation practice from Flint Hills Resources. During this webinar you will learn how these how these practices were created, implemented and why you may want to incorporate this at your organization. A Systematic Screening Program for “Low-Priority” Process Safety Incidents, was implemented at Marathon Petroleum Company, to increase pre-emptive investigations of low-level process safety events. Based on principles of the AFPM Safety Matrix, an assessment tool was developed to identify a growing risk of safety hazards among particular tasks. A risk calibration method is then used to determine if a pre-emptive investigation should be activated, to address low-consequence incidents as a measure to prevent high-consequence incidents. Flint Hills Resources designed what is known as the Rotating Equipment Monitoring Transformation, an experiment to demonstrate value captured with semi-continuous wireless vibration alongside traditional methods. The primary goal was to prevent unplanned events and minimize the likelihood/consequence of pump failures. During this time, there were several examples of early identification of anomalies that prevented failures and potential unplanned events. Additionally, our pump population mean time between failure has increased over 30 months (~40%) since implementation. Presenters Kenneth Bloch, Process Safety Supervisor- Marathon Petroleum Company Barrett Fines, Logistics Business Manager- Flint Hills Resources Moderator Marc Sexton, Corporate Process Safety Manager, Flint Hill Resources, LLC
The AFPM Environmental Conference program focuses on regulatory and policy issues at the plant level. Environmental representatives from refinery and petrochemical plants and service organizations attend, providing an excellent opportunity to network with peers who share similar problems, challenges, and opportunities in the refining and petrochemical industries.