RMC-08-35 Strategies for Infrastructure Reliability

Description:

Our Petrochemical Industrial Infrastructure is aging at a rapid pace while our demand for the products manufactured by these facilities is increasing even more rapidly. As an Owner, understanding the risk associated with not conducting maintenance on civil infrastructure versus spending the funds on maintenance in order to keep the facilities operating, can involve difficult decision-making “opportunities”. As with process equipment, risks associated with potential process interruption by failures of civil infrastructure are weighed and decisions made. These decisions are based on factual historical information of similar process scenarios, effect on adjacent process streams and the facility as a whole. Being proactive versus reactive has been proven, via Risk-Based-Inspection (RBI), to be the best path available to Owners as a means & methods to maintain an operating facility with minimal interruptions.