The Natural Gas Processing Plant Performance Analysis (NGPP Study) provides participants the visibility to see what the operations of a top-performing gas plant looks like. Understanding where your plant performance excelled—and fell short—compared to others within the industry helps guide you in improving future operations.
Gas plants are like fingerprints—no two are the same. Varying in both size and complexity, these characteristics provide significant obstacles when attempting to compare assets and evaluate their success. Unlike a typical competitive situation that can be measured in terms of winning or losing, natural gas processing is unique to each facility, so it’s difficult to say what level of performance is actually being compared.
Solomon’s NGPP Study analyzes the following aspects of your facility:
- Process unit types and capacities
- Utilizations and availabilities
- Maintenance labor, equipment, and materials
- Non-maintenance personnel, including contractors and allocated staff
- Other non-personnel expenses
- Energy consumption and costs
Normalizing performance data allows us to account for plant size and complexity. As such, we can assess your performance on a number of KPIs, comparing your operations to others on an equitable basis. The resulting data helps answer many questions, such as:
- Do my operating costs compare well to the industry?
- Are my manpower count, knowledge, work-hours, and compensation competitive?
- How energy efficient is my facility; how much does my inefficiency cost me?
- Is my maintenance program economical; does it lend itself to a reliable plant?
The Result
Through an accurate comparison to others within the industry, you can direct where to guide future operational improvements, enhance your plant’s performance, and ultimately save money by improving overall efficiency.
