Title: Scortford Shell
Duration: 2:47 minutes
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Shell lubricants in collaboration with Scotford Shell have produced Shell Turbo S4 X 32 for use in the utility air compressors of the Shell Scotford Upgrader.
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Shell Lubricants / From driving collaboration to delivering value
Interview with Terence Zelman
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Senior Machinery Specialist / Scotford Upgrader
[Terence Zelman]
Scotford Shell is a 250,000 barrel per day petrochemical facility, 24/7, 365 day a year.
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[Terence Zelman]
We don’t shut down for anything. Machinery here is labored all the time.
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Terence Zelman / Senior Machinery Specialist / Scotford Upgrader
[Terence Zelman]
It needs to perform at its best and we need to be able to put barrels down the pipeline to be successful.
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The Shell Scotford Upgrader processes bitumen from the Shell Albian oil sands into a crude oil. At the heart of the complex operation are the utility air compressors.
[Terence Zelman]
Our utility air compressors, they provide plant air and instrument air to the entire facility.
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Interview with Scott Kwas
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Technical Advisor / Shell lubricants
[Scott Kwas]
A lot of times when these units go down, the plants go down. A very critical piece of equipment.
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An issue with the compressors’ bearings was causing unplanned outages. The team needed to find out why. Quickly.
[Terence Zelman]
And when we finally took the equipment apart and found the varnish issues from the degradation of the oil, we knew that we needed to talk to the experts.
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[Scott Kwas]
So an issue like this takes a real in-depth and methodical approach, involving all the key stakeholders. Right away I knew to contact Bill Stein.
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Scott Kwas / Technical Advisor / Shell lubricants
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Interview with Bill Stein
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Senior Machinery Specialist / Scotford Upgrader
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Scott Kwas / Technical Advisor / Shell lubricants
[Bill Stein]
The thing that intrigued us most about the Scotford issue was what was at stake. As a piece of equipment comes offline and has to be replaced, that translates into a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of expense – even lost production. The first step in any product development application is to actually understand where you’re going.
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[Terence Zelman]
We went out to the unit, we looked at the health of the machine and we reviewed vibration trends.
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[Scott Kwas]
Bill ran in-depth oil analysis, looking for those indicators for varnish potential and identifying any optimized solution in our lubricant portfolio.
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[Bill Stein]
Once we have a product that we’ve put together in the laboratory that satisfies all the specifications, we want to make sure that that product translates to trouble-free operation for our customers.
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Armed with research and resolve, the team collaborated and decided to try a recently developed lubricant in the air compressors – Shell Turbo S4 X 32
[Scott Kwas]
With the new formulation in place, we kept a constant and very frequent dialogue with Scotford Upgrader and Terrence, continuously monitoring the oil for success.
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[Terence Zelman]
We were skeptics at first. We’d never seen this kind of runtime on our equipment before.
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[Bill Stein]
We’ve actually hit a home run with the Turbo S4 product line. This is a product that works and it’s a product that’s a problem solver.
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The solution found by the Shell Lubricants team improved equipment performance and reliability of the Scotford Upgrader.
[Terence Zelman]
Currently, to date, we’re saving $20,000 every month that this equipment keeps running.
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[Terence Zelman]
We’re up to about $400,000 in savings at this point and we do not see a failure coming down the road anytime soon.
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$400,000 savings
[Scott Kwas]
A strong collaboration between all three of the parties was very key, Terrence having the knowledge and the boots on the down here at the plant, then all which I bring out [?] with the lubricants and then with Bill with the formulation of the products, the three aligned to form a successful outcome.
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Shell Lubricants / Together anything is possible
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