Ameriven Refinery
(Venezuela) - a joint venture of Chevron, ConocoPhillips &
PDVSA
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| Benefits realized by Ameriven following the implementation of
RealityLINx®:
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| Inspection teams have consistently realized 25 – 30 percent more
productivity. |
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| INOVx tools have enabled reliability staff to isolate physical
problem areas in record time, in some cases reducing the total elapsed time to
correct an incident by 80 percent. |
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| Major improvement in communication between maintenance and
inspection crews. |
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| Comments from Ruben Hernandez, Upgrader Maintenance Manager. |
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“Ameriven needed an outstanding inspection capability and INOVx helped provide
that.”
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| Comments from Moraima Caceres, Corrosion Specialist in Plant
Reliability, Ameriven. |
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| “The team using INOVx created their baseline in half the time
required by the team using traditional methods.”
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| “During the early stages of INOVx implementation, INOVx tools
helped the inspection team find and solve a corrosion problem in two days. A
similar exercise required two weeks using a competitor’s product.” |
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| “We now have the ability to look at and track corrosion in a
graphical and easy to use way. Corrosion inspectors can look at the areas to be
inspected without having to field-check them prior to the inspection. We know
that the 3D images are the same as the physical assets and that they are to
scale. This makes Thickness Measurement Locations easy to find and provides
better information for inspection and repair planning. As a result, our
inspection teams can do 20 to 30 percent more work with the same staff of
inspectors, and plant reliability is improved.” |
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| “The INOVx tools have helped to improve communications between
Maintenance and Inspection by providing accurate, to-scale drawings of plant
assets which can be referenced by both teams at the same time. They can also be
attached to Maintenance Work Orders if needed. As a result, mistakes have been
significantly reduced.” |
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