Energy, Oil & Gas Magazine Issue 222 September 2024 | Page 28

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transferable skills in my current role . I joined Phillips 66 , and over the course of the last 22 years have managed various refinery operations , across four different facilities within the Philips 66 refining portfolio , more recently , as general manager of the Billings facility and now as General Manager of Bayway since late 2022 .
“ We recently completed a joint company project that allows the refinery to supply an onsite cogeneration facility with off gas containing hydrogen that is blended with natural gas to fuel one of the cogeneration ’ s gas turbines . We ’ re very pleased with the project ’ s ability to improve energy efficiency and reduce CO₂ emissions . Phillips 66 is committed to playing a meaningful role in the energy transition and pursuing low carbon opportunities . We also recently completed a portion of a multi-phase underground piping replacement in a sensitive location under railroad infrastructure . The process utilized jack and bore technology , a trenchless method of construction , that extracts the old underground piping while also inserting the new piping without disturbing the infrastructure or railroad operations . It was a safe , less disruptive , and more cost-effective approach to executing the work .
“ Over the last several years , we have fully upgraded our process control system , which is the brains of the operating facility . This brought the latest technology to the forefront of our console supervisors and process controls team , moving from coaxial cables and CRT monitors from the 1980s and 1990s to modern fault tolerant Ethernet . We ’ ve optimized our human machine interface graphics , implemented state-of-the-art alarm process safety management , and leveraged full redundancy of readily available hardware and virtualized software . Now , in conjunction ,
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