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FROM THE EDITOR mike brenner, group publisher mbrenner@putman.net editorial staff paul studebaker, cmrp pstudebaker@putman.net russell l. kratowicz, p.e. cmrp editor in chief executive editor managing editor senior web editor senior technical editor group art director art director contributing editor contributing editor contributing editor contributing editor contributing editor contributing editor russk@putman.net ken schnepf Orange alert With maintenance like this, who needs terrorism? kschnepf@putman.net michael ermitage dan hebert, p.e., mermitage@putman.net dhebert@putman.net stephen c. herner jennifer dakas sherner@putman.net jdakas@putman.net david berger, p.eng. peter garforth sheila kennedy joel leonard r. keith mobley, cmrp ricky smith, cmrp A publication services carmela kappel jerry clark jack jones ckappel@putman.net jclark@putman.net jjones@putman.net rita fitzgerald assistant to the publisher v.p., circulation circulation director production manager reprints marketing manager rfitzgerald@putman.net claudia stachowiak Foster Reprints claudia@fostereprints.com (866) 879-9144 ext. 121 administrative staff john m. cappelletti julie cappelletti-lange keith larson rose southard president/ceo vice president v.p., content it director PLANT SERVICES (ISSN 0199-8013) is published Junely by Putman Media, Inc., 555 West Pierce Road, Suite 301, Itasca, IL 60143. 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If it follows the events that includes floodusual root-cause analysis pattern, it will ing New Orleans, neglecting turn out to be a breach of procedure Walter Reed Army Medical Center blamed at least in part on a system that and collapsing the I-35W bridge doesn’t adequately prevent such a breach over the Mississippi in Minneapolis, – in layman’s terms, someone made a the November 28 explosion on a mamistake and no one caught it in time. jor Canadian-U.S. crude-oil pipeMaybe what the United States needs line showed once again that terroris a Department of Homeland Integrity ists would be hard-pressed to match to match our Department of Homeland the damage we can do to ourselves Security. We could invest a few of the with engineering, maintenance and billions of dollars we spend trying to management mistakes. fend off external threats The explosion killed on educating people two maintenance workers. Maybe what about the costs and value Then it spooked speculaof sound infrastructure, tors into raising oil prices the United by more than $3 a barrel States needs is the payback on intelligent maintenance and the into $95 on November 29. a Department dispensable roles of reliThose of us in the rapidlyof Homeland ability-enforcement perfreezing Midwest were sonnel including facility terrorized by loose talk Integrity. managers, engineers and of fuel oil and gasoline technicians. shortages, and only someThe Corps of Engineers could become what reassured when U.S. Department the core of a national effort to recruit, of Energy spokesperson Megan Barnett train and employ an army of experts promised to consider tapping the U.S. to search out, identify and exorcise the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. structural and procedural deficiencies Later that day, oil futures investors that daily threaten our citizens. discovered that the incident would have We’d save lives, improve our envino appreciable effect on U.S. supplies beronment, and increase the efficiency of cause the pipeline was already shut down our infrastructure. If we did it right, we for maintenance and would be back in ought to be able to make a profit. service in three days. Who’s with me? The two human casualties, Enbridge Energy Partners maintenance workers Dave Mussati Jr. and Steve Arnovich, were performing scheduled maintenance on the underground pipeline. Workers PAUL STUDEBAKER, CMRP had successfully replaced a segment of EDITOR IN CHIEF pipe that had a pinhole leak when the pstudebaker@putman.net explosion occurred. (630) 467-1300 ext. 433 www.PLANTSERVICES.com December 2007 http://www.plantservices.com http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com

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Plant Services - December 2007 Contents From the Editor: Orange Alert The PS Files: Pressed into Innovation Up and Running What Works: Samuel Adams Facility Refreshed in Cincinnati Energy Expert: Energy's "Perfect Storm" Technology Toolbox: Know Your Position Cover Story: Get a Grip on the Steamer Piping: Outside Looking In Web Hunter: Potpourri X In the Trenches: Making a Big Stink Boiler Room: Getting Educated

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