At EET Fuels, we’re leading the energy transition by performing today, transforming for tomorrow, and delivering the UK’s first low carbon refinery. Our people are vital to achieving our ambition, and #redefined showcases the work that they are doing to deliver the fuels our community needs, now and in the future. This month, we spoke to Daisy Rickett-Jones, operations turnaround lead & flawless focal point at EET Fuels.
How would you describe your day-to-day role? In my role, I’m responsible for providing professional operational support to the Turnaround (TA) team at EET Fuels. A Turnaround is an extraordinary event that involves a large number of engineering activities being undertaken in a minimum duration. I ensure that the refinery production units are operationally prepared for TA events, which includes operational milestone tracking, development of hydrocarbon plans and application of the flawless process. The main objectives of a TA are to optimise the work-scope within the TA premises set for the shutdown and deliver the required safety, cost, schedule, quality and reliability performance metrics. The build up to a TA event is all about being ready and prepared, ensuring that previous lessons have been acted on and learning points identified, collated and distributed to ensure continuous improvement. During a TA event my role is incredibly dynamic and very exciting, with the aim being to support the workforce to achieve maximum efficiency, ensuring that safety and the environment remain at the highest priority whilst also dealing with discovery work and uncontrollable external factors such as weather. And all of this is to a very tight schedule.
How has your role been redefined to support EET Fuels in reaching its target to reduce its carbon emissions by 95% by 2030? The next major block TA event will take place in early 2025. The majority of my scope of work for completion of the TA is the statutory, required inspections on plant equipment and linework but there are a number of improvements within that scope which pave the way for future decarbonisation projects. The Crude Distillation Unit (CD4) will see the installation of a new hydrogen ready furnace and the utilities unit will have tie in points installed to allow future construction of a Combined Heat & Power (CHP) plant.
What does success look like in your role for 2024? Success in my role in 2024 is about ensuring that we are going into 2025 with everything we need to execute the Block 2025 TA event successfully. It is important that we are meeting the required milestones, that we have a clear plan and a fully optimised schedule that indicates the critical plan for the event. Contracts must be in place, and we need to be working towards developing permits, risk assessments and method statements by the end of the year that will allow us to execute the event without accident or incident.