Meeting precise customer refinery maintenance specifications in a safety-first environment has been a hallmark of Brand Energy's work at the largest oil-sands crude oil production facility in the world.
During more than a decade of work at the oil refinery, Brand Energy has undertaken a wide range of industrial refinery maintenance and industrial construction projects. The work has ranged from custom-designing an expandable coker platform to creating highly specialized access platforms for complex environments.
When the cladding and insulation on the Unit 8-1 burner line at Syncrude's Coker Unit need ed to be replaced, there were few supports that would allow technicians to construct industrial scaffolding from grade. Brand Energy erected a Sure Lock landing platform 160 ft.
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from grade and utilized a pneumatically operated swingstage suspended scaffold to access the remainder of the line.
To replace Syncrude's 15-year-old coker plat form, Brand Energy specially designed an expan dable coker platform that reduced the number of operators needed, shortened assembly time and improved weight-to-strength ratio, all while maintaining the existing 5,000-lb
capacity.
After ten years without a lost time incident, Brand Energy was chosen from among more than 130 contractors to receive Syncrude's top safety award for 2000. In his presentation spe- ech, COO Jim Carter commended Brand Energy for its ability to work in unique and challenging situations, "from the tip of the drag lines to the pipe racks in upgrading." |
