No-Shortcut Oil Analysis Drives O&G Reliability

摘要

The centerpiece of O&G Industries' 84-year-old maintenance program is the company's commitment to oil analysis. To keep the fleet's 700 units reliable and cost effective, Jim Zambero, O&G's vice president of maintenance, says, "we don't ever -ever - take a shortcut.rn"We sample every single thing (in the fleet)," Zambero adds. And he means every single fluid reservoir on every single piece of equipment - generating 7,000 oil-analysis reports per year. "We have a lawnmower on the system, plate compactors - a whole operation could stop if a plate compactor stops.