Case Studies

EQUATE Petrochemical Company was founded in 1996 as a joint venture Between Dow Chemical and Petro Chemical Industries. Located in Kuwait and supplying markets in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, EQUATE is one of the world’s largest producers of polyethylene and ethylene glycol for value-added plastics and chemicals.

Marin Municipal Water District is a public agency providing high-quality drinking water to 185,000 people in a 147-square-mile area of California’s Marin County just north of San Francisco. Established in 1912, Marin is California’s oldest municipal water district, and is tasked with sensitively managing natural resources, providing customers with reliable, high-quality water at an equitable price, and ensuring the fiscal and environmental vitality of the district for future generations.

Built in 1953, BP Lingen is one of twenty-three BP refineries worldwide. One of the ten largest companies worldwide, BP employs close to 102,000 people on six continents in over 100 countries, operating across crude oil, natural gas, petrochemicals and renewable energy business segments. The BP Lingen refinery processes over 4 million tons of crude oil per year, yielding over $2 Billion in annual revenue.

As the largest oil refiner in North America, Valero Energy Corporation was planning a $39 million shutdown at its St. Charles refinery, and needed to maintain accurate, real-time project management data across SAP, Primavera, and TrackSoftware. Impress for EPM provided Valero with the solution.

Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the oil and gas industries. The company adds value through the entire lifecycle of oil and gas reservoirs and provides and integrates products and services, starting with exploration and development, moving through production, operations, maintenance, conversion and refining, to infrastructure and abandonment. Halliburton employs more than 100,000 people in over 120 countries working in five major operating groups. The Engineering and Construction Group, known as Kellog Brown & Root (KBR), serves the energy industry by designing and building liquefied natural gas plants, refining and processing plants, production facilities and pipelines, both onshore and offshore. KBR’s non-energy business meets the engineering and construction needs of governments and civil infrastructure customers. KBR also provides client plant operations and maintenance support for a wide variety of facilities.

As a leading global producer of petrochemicals, Huntsman companies produce products for a variety of end-use applications. With 11,300 employees, Huntsman companies operate in 22 countries, generating annual revenues of approximately $15 billion. With nearly 400 employees and a similar number of contractors, Huntsman’s Rozenburg facility in the Netherlands is comprised of six plants producing roughly 10% of the world’s MDI production and 70,000 tons of Polyols, the two ingredients for creating Polyurethanes.

Rockwell Collins, headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is a leader in design, production, and support of communication and aviation electronics for customers world-wide. Founded in 1933, Rockwell Collins operates from more than 60 locations in 27 countries, and employs 17,000 people. The electronic communication equipment produced by Rockwell Collins can be found in the cockpit of almost every passenger plane. What’s more, almost 70% of all US and allied military communication is transmitted by Rockwell Collins.

E.ON Energie is the world's largest investor-owned power and gas company, with over 30 million customers in more than 20 European countries and the United States. E.ON Benelux, a division of E.ON Energie, concentrates on the production and supply of electricity and heat in the Netherlands and Belgium. The company was established in 1941 and since 2000 has been part of E.ON Energie AG. E.ON Benelux’s power stations, with a total capacity of 1,850 MW, are located in the province of South Holland, the economic heart of the Netherlands. The company has approximately 600 personnel and is based in Rotterdam.