Canada
Hydrocracker Charge Heater completely destroyed because of tube rupture and secondary explosion. The heater coil consisted of thick, 347H S.S. materials. In 2.5 weeks after award of contract, 43.5 metric tons of pipe was delivered to Tulsa by chartered airplane from a tube mill in Europe. The new 46.0 MM BTU/HR heater was fabricated and delivered to the job site 7 weeks after receipt of the contract. The start up of the heater was 4 months ahead of original planned refinery schedule.

Kansas Gas Plant
A 33 MM BTU/HR Regeneration Gas Heater was completely destroyed in an explosion. PC-PFS located a replacement heater in one day and flew with Corporate personnel to examine the condition and acceptability of existing heater coil and layout. The heater selected by PC-PFS met the process requirements of 1000 psig design pressure and a process pressure drop of less than 7.5 psi. The heater was loaded on trucks 4 days after receipt of notice to replace the heater and arrived at the job site the next day. Total time to deliver a replacement heater was less than 1 week.

PC-PFS also handled the turnkey erection phase of this project. The heater, including new instrumentation, was on-line one month after the explosion. Since the entire gas field was out of production during the heater outage, time was of the essence. By placing an order with PC-PFS, the gas field was back in production 3 months ahead of original schedule.

Jamaica
Fire destroyed all but the stack and foundations of a 23.2 MM BTU/HR Gasoline Reformer Heater with a stud tube convection section. PC-PFS was able to locate the pipe and fittings necessary to complete a new radiant and convection section.  PCD opened a one week slot in an already booked stud machine shop schedule, so that PC-PFS could deliver a new heater in less than 5 weeks from the date of the order. This work was completed 3 months ahead of the next best schedule proposed by other company.