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Marathon Petroleum's Garyville, Louisiana, Major Expansion (GME)
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Marathon Petroleum's Garyville, Louisiana, Major Expansion
(GME) was one of the largest projects of its kind to be constructed in the
United States, with the final cost totaling $4 billion over a 31-month period.
The expansion increased the refinery's crude oil capacity from 256,000 barrels
per day to 436,000 barrels. The sheer size made this one of the largest and
most challenging projects in Turner Industries' 50-year history. To be successful, Turner relied on its
reservoir of knowledgeable and experienced employees, ranging from craft
workers to safety personnel and management.
Turner was awarded a contract to do mechanical construction
with services including civil, steel, equipment, piping, pipe testing,
non-destructive examination (x-ray and positive material identification) and
post-weld heat treatment. Pipe testing required over 3,000 test packages and
16,838 mechanical sign-offs. A crew of 365 people and 700,000 work-hours were
required just to offload the trucks delivering materials and to man the
warehouse - a task also included in the scope of the job. Overall, Turner's
contract covered seven units: the HCU (Hydrocracker Unit), KHT (Kerosene
Hydrotreater), NHT/CCR (Naphtha Hydrotreater/CCR Platformer), SRU (Sulfur
Recovery Unit), D2 (Utilities), D4 (Tank Farm) and D5 (Sour Water). At the
conclusion of the project, 129.5 miles of piping had been installed, as well as
14,124 tons of steel and 958 pieces of equipment, with Turner's work force
peaking at 3,000.
Turner's total work-hours exceeded 5.7 million, and the job
was completed with an amazingly low TRIR (Total Recordable Incident Rate) of
only .210.
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