Refining

Refining Event Outcomes With AP-Networks

The headwinds of economic and regulatory constraints on the downstream refining industry are more significant than ever before. There is a global shift in progress across the world’s leading refiners as they implement decarbonization programs in the face of rising environmental pressure. 

The dynamics of global supply and demand are changing significantly. To remain profitable, refiners are finding new ways to increase operating efficiency. Capital Projects and Turnarounds are the most significant capital outlays that refineries face. To achieve predictable, competitive outcomes during these critical events, refineries prepare using the best, most robust tools and technologies.

AP-Networks’ Capital Project Network and Turnaround Network platforms are specifically designed to provide the preparation tools, methodologies, and data analytics needed to achieve success on capital projects and turnarounds.

Our Capital Project Network is a cloud-based platform that provides a suite of preparation tools tailored for large-scale capital investment projects and smaller, plant-based projects typically selected and managed at the site level.

NaviTrack for Capital Projects transforms the capital project work process with its phases, milestones, and activities into an interactive daily-use tool for all project team members. NaviTrack provides specific, actionable plans for developing consistent, best-practice deliverables with standard large capital project and plant-based process versions—while optimizing stage-by-stage start and completion dates across every activity and milestone. 

Our Turnaround Network platform is the industry standard for refinery turnaround preparation. Similar to our capital project implementation, NaviTrack for Turnarounds provides a customizable, dynamic work process that automatically adjusts work process timing and requirements based on a turnaround’s complexity characteristics. Our platform tools can accommodate any size turnaround, from low-complexity annual “squats” to two-million labor hour, mega-complexity complete refinery outages. 

But what if you need to manage a simultaneous refinery turnaround and capital project? AP-Networks has you covered. We developed our optional iNTrack module to allow teams to integrate the timelines for capital projects and turnarounds seamlessly. These integrated outages provide transparency to capital project and turnaround teams for deliverables, activity completion status, and reporting.

Here’s the bottom line: no one in Industry has more experience driving optimal outcomes through data-driven event preparation for STOs and capital projects than AP-Networks.