DRIVING TANK MAINTENANCE PROGRAMME RESULTS

Moving from the dark to the light, with RLG’s Pat Stanton The planning, execution, and management of tank maintenance is a major cost-driver for the refining, petrochemical, and terminal storage industries. The reality is that tank maintenance performance in these areas has historically been poor. A systematic and controlled approach to improving tank maintenance team performance is needed to significantly reduce costs, increase tank availability, and improve outage predictability to enhance revenue opportunities. Operators spend millions of dollars each year cleaning, inspecting, and repairing their storage tanks to meet regulatory or operational requirements. Every year, tank maintenance programme leaders are faced with the challenge of successfully managing their programmes while simultaneously: 1) reducing costs, 2) increasing availability, and 3) improving outage predictability. The hard truth is that only through formalising a comprehensive approach to tank maintenance that the return on this significant investment is maximised. That goal is best achieved when a tank maintenance team is committed to developing, implementing, and continuously improving an approach to tank...