Improve Your Asset Performance
The JV Driver Group has a strong Maintenance, Turnarounds and Capital Projects offering across North America.
Fluor Driver is a recognized leader in plant maintenance, turnarounds and capital projects – and particularly safety – across Canada. Fluor Driver is the coming together of two complementary companies with decades of experience and a continuous investment in innovation. Our mission is to maintain and improve the performance of our client’s industrial assets. Our methods result in sustainable performance improvements by reducing plant downtime and quickly returning assets to full operating mode. In addition, we have extensive engineering and fabrication capability across North America, should the need arise. This breadth and depth of capability, including the innovative labour approaches of JV Driver Group and the global experience and strength of Fluor create an offering that others simply can’t match.
In the US, JV Driver Group offers maintenance, turnaround and capital project capability from its operations in Houston, Texas. Again the focus remains on client asset performance and we have innovative reliability programs that keep plants operating and save money.
Below are some examples of our work with Imperial Oil, ConocoPhillips, Suncor Energy, Husky and other major companies.
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JV DRIVER MAINTENANCE COMPANIES
A Sample of Maintenance, Turnarounds and Capital Projects
Williams Turnaround
Our team completed the Williams Energy Redwater Deethanizer turnaround. In all respects the turnaround was a resounding success. The project...
Surmont
Fluor Driver provided planning and execution for the Phase 1 SAGD facility turnaround. The scope of work included exchanger maintenance,...
Husky Sunrise
Our team was awarded a contract to provide sustaining capital projects for Husky. The work is broken into fabrication, debottlenecking...
Suncor Turnarounds
Location: Fort McMurray, AB Client: Suncor Energy Fluor Driver entered into an agreement with Suncor to provide services for multiple turnarounds...
Mechanical Services
Fluor Driver has been awarded a 5 year mechanical services maintenance contract for the Norman Wells and the Alberta Conventional Oil...
Kearl Maintenance
Fluor Driver has a long term agreement with Imperial Oil to provide plant maintenance services at its Kearl site. Specifically,...
Steady State Maintenance
In Steady State Maintenance our deep experience really comes to the fore. Where we start is with a clear alignment of goals with our clients: safety, plant up-time, constant pursuit of efficiencies. To do this we take a systematic approach with a sense of urgency always focused on client goals. With our exceptional level of experience and best practices learned through the years we work as one team with our clients to improve plant operations. Below are some specific examples of how we do our work.
Asset Performance Improvement
As part of our offering Fluor Driver uses proven, measurable asset performance improvement techniques which assist clients with improving the effectiveness of their assets, processes, people and equipment. Our experts identify gaps between a client’s current state and industry best practices, then develops a plan to close those gaps with clear articulation of the scope, benefits, resources, schedule and cost.
An example around equipment would see our reliability team create an inventory of all equipment and develop failure mode scenarios with special emphasis on mission critical pieces. Then we develop preventive and predictive maintenance tasks and inspection approaches to improve equipment reliability. A systematic failure elimination program is also implemented to continually make run-time improvements. Our planning and scheduling team evaluates and works with your work order system to ensure that work is properly identified, planned, approved, scheduled, and executed in a manner that increases employee performance for outages and day-to-day work.
A Heavy Emphasis on Analysis and Planning
Analysis and planning are at the core of our approach. Using proven business risk management techniques we place heavy emphasis on planning, risk identification and mitigation before a wrench is turned. Our formalized and systematic risk management techniques have been developed over many years and have proven highly effective at identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring and addressing risks. Specifically, identified risks are qualitatively rated based on the severity of the potential consequences as well as the likelihood of the event, and prioritized accordingly. Mitigation strategies are researched and evaluated for capability, feasibility, cost effectiveness, and preference. Common mitigation strategies include avoiding, transferring, reducing, and/or accepting the risk and its consequences. Once the preferred strategies have been selected, cost and benefit opportunities are evaluated, detailed action plans are documented along with due dates and responsible parties, and the plan is then reviewed and approved by management.
And we do all this on a timely and cost-effective basis.
Turnarounds and Outages
Fluor Driver in combination with its parent companies performs or supports more than 100 turnarounds, shutdowns, and outages annually for power generation, oil and gas, chemical, and other industrial clients. Whether for emergency repairs, capital project tie-ins, or major shutdowns requiring several hundred craft workers, we have the management and staffing expertise to safely and successfully execute these time-critical events.
Our turnaround teams follow a disciplined, multi-phase approach to plan, schedule, staff, and execute turnarounds of all sizes. Fluor Driver works closely with clients to develop a progressive series of implementation plans, beginning well in advance of the turnaround start date and concluding with post-project performance reviews.
Our steady-state maintenance and sustaining capital project teams frequently perform turnarounds, shutdowns, and outages as part of their onsite work activities.
Capital and Sustaining Capital Projects
We understand the importance and bottom-line impact of effective small capital projects and sustaining capital programs, where cost and speed, while maintaining safety, are paramount. This again is an area of strength because of our experience in performing this type of work for so many years. In fact, many cost-effective, high-value small capital opportunities are identified as a result of analysis by our Steady State Maintenance teams or a specific consulting engagement with some of our efficiency experts.
In many cases these projects are particularly cost effective as our Steady State Maintenance teams often play a large role in completing this work. This approach not only affects cost, it results in better project outcomes due to existing relationships with client engineering and operations people and their deep understanding of the plant design and operation.