Release of Navitrack™ Provides Industry with First-of-Kind Turnaround Planning Tool

Bethesda, Maryland February 1st, 2008 – Asset Performance Networks, LLC today announced the release of NaviTrack, the industry’s first web-based tool for generating turnaround preparation plans and tracking progress. The tool applies the industry’s best practices from the knowledge and experience gained from more than 500 turnaround evaluations worldwide. By providing a real-time, multi-user interface to the integrated preparation tasks, NaviTrack dramatically enhances the ability to achieve an optimum state of readiness prior to a shutdown and increase the chances of turnaround success.

“NaviTrack is a game-changing tool for turnaround teams,” says George Debakey, Managing Director of Asset Performance Networks. “Using our industry database, we have identified what are the most important drivers of turnaround success at each distinct stage in the planning and execution life-cycle. This knowledge has been incorporated into the tool so that teams have a comprehensive roadmap for planning and executing a turnaround from day one that is aligned with industry best practice. At the same time, NaviTrack retains a level of flexibility so that companies can customize the tool to their own specific work processes where needed.”

NaviTrack has been incorporated into the Turnaround-Network^© and complements the other tools now contained in the portal such as the Turnaround Readiness Pyramid^©, The Risk Manager^©, and Complexity Calculator^©. Turnaround teams with access to the network now can use a complete set of diagnostic and planning tools.

About Asset Performance Networks
Asset Performance Networks based in the Washington D.C. area is the trusted leader in implementing best practices to drive superior capital project and turnaround performance for the Chemical, Gas, Power, Refining and Upstream (Exploration and Production) industries. Asset Performance Networks boasts an impressive list of clients - e.g. five of the oil super majors and a number of marquee oil, chemical, and energy companies in The Americas, Asia, Europe, The Middle East and Africa. Asset Performance Networks provides an integrated toolkit of products and services to deliver competitive and predictable projects and turnarounds. AP-Networks' complete Delivery and Support model of best-in-class processes, evaluative tools, best practices, industry databases, and other resources are accessible by clients through license agreements. To find out more, please visit http://pyxis.apn-tools.com; http://www.project-pyramid.com/; http://www.turnaround-network.com/; http://www.upstream-network.com/.