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Valero Energy Corporation acquires subscription license to www.Turnaround-Network.com
Bethesda, Maryland, August 1st 2008 — Asset Performance Networks announced today that Valero Energy has acquired a subscription license to the web-based portal www.Turnaround-Network.com. The license covers all Valero’s Refineries as well as the Corporate office in San Antonio, Texas.
www.Turnaround-Network.com is the industry’s only portal dedicated to improving turnaround performance. It contains interactive turnaround processes enabling the generation of action item tracking, access to best practices, and monitoring of readiness deliverables. It also contains readiness and risk assessment tools, benchmarking capabilities, decision matrices, job aids, reference materials, and networking features to drive turnaround performance. Since its launch in January 2002, more than 150 refining and chemical facilities have subscription licenses to the www.Turnaround-Network.com with more than five thousand registered users in The Americas, Europe, and Australia.
About Valero Energy
Valero was born in 1980 as out of the natural gas gathering subsidiary of the Coastal States Gas Corporation to become the largest North American refiner in 2005. During 2005, Valero had18 refineries and a total throughput capacity of approximately 3.3 million barrels per day (BPD), with total assets of $33 billion and annual revenues of nearly $75 billion, ranking it company No. 15 on the Fortune 500. Valero continues to earn industry awards and accolades, including ranking No. 1 on Fortune magazine's listing of the nation's "Best Big Companies to Work For", and 2006 Convenience Store Chain of the Year" by Convenience Store Decisions magazine, a widely read retail industry trade publication.
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/.
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