Page 14 November 3, 2016 EL SEGUNDO HERALD Chevron from front page period. Chevron fulfilled nine other criteria in having no recordable injuries due to hazardous material issues or equipment failures, among other items. The refinery also reported no process safety events requiring notification to the National Response Center. “This award represents a great honor for the El Segundo Refinery and we are extremely proud to share this accomplishment with the community” said Henry Kusch, Refinery General Manager. Kusch officially joined the El Segundo refinery in April, replacing Frank Semancik who moved to a new headquarter role in the company overseeing complex processes at facilities around the world. Along with the safety recognition, Chevron also garnered Project Management Institute (PMI) honors last year for completing installation of six new coke drums, which make up the core element of the facility’s Coker Unit. The massive steel containers (each almost 100 feet long, 30 feet in diameter and weighing in at 600,000 pounds) are used to manufacture petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. In winning the 2015 PMI Project of the Year, Chevron bested multi-billion -dollar global scale projects with the project coming in $7 million under budget and four months ahead of schedule. In doing so, the refinery applied “sound project and risk management principles to overcome a myriad of logistical and safety challenges, while minimizing the impact to the local community,” according to PMI President and CEO Mark A. Langley. The drums originally arrived in January 2013 at the Port of Los Angeles via a specially designed cargo ship that took a month to navigate to the West Coast. Barged two at a time over three successive weeks to King Harbor in Redondo Beach, they then made several well-documented and carefully choreographed night trips through city streets on custom-designed, 280-foot-long vehicles moving just one to three miles per hour to ultimately arrive at their final destination in El Segundo. The project included removal of six 46-year-old drums that were nearing the end of their useful life, requiring the largest crane ever assembled in Southern California with a boom height over 400 feet. Chevron also implemented special fall protection measures such as double harnesses for crew members and leashes to tie off all tools and materials. Despite 400 people working well Chevron in El Segundo has been designated Safest Refinery in America with the recent coke drum project winning global recognition as well. above ground, no one fell or lost time to injury. “Replacement of the coke drums was a very important project to further enhance our operational reliability and environmental efficiency at the refinery,” said Kusch. Along with the coke drums, Chevron has invested over $850 million in major capital projects over the past few years. The list includes bringing its fourth Cogeneration Unit online to provide 45 new megawatts of power in order to self-supply all of the refinery’s electricity demand; commissioning the new Refinery Optimization Center (ROC)--a 38,000-square foot, state-of-the-art central control facility; building the SRU 73 Plant, which is the cleanest sulfur recovery operation of any refinery in the world; and conducting major maintenance work on the #4 Crude Unit, LSFO and Isomax Complex. Meanwhile Kusch, a California native who was most recently General Manager of Chevron’s Escravos Gas-to-Liquids Venture in Nigeria and held various management positions with the company over the course of a career now spanning 25 years, expressed his excitement about heading up the El Segundo refinery as the facility looks to the future. “When the opportunity presented itself for my wife Melinda and me to come back to El Segundo, we were absolutely thrilled,” Kusch said. We love this community and are excited to once again call it home.” • Chevron operators work the controls at their new high tech Refinery Optimization Center (ROC). New Refinery General Manager Henry Kusch is thrilled to once again call El Segundo home. C e r t i f i e d a n d L i c e n s e d P r o f e s s i o n a l s handyman BILL’S HOME & APARTMENT MAINTENANCE CONTRACTOR QUALITY at Handyman Prices. We cover everything from A-Z. 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