Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 01, No. 09, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1953 Page: 1 of 4
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[ Published Every Week by Humble Oil & Refining Company for Employees at Bay town Plants
VOL. 1, NO. 9
Room 105, Commissary Bldg., Phone 2752
BAYTOWN, TEXAS, MARCH 6, 1953
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Metal Inspectors Use
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Pipe Still Downtime
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March Safety Slogan
Traffic Courtesy
Buys
A Lot Of Safety
drums and towers suitable for re-
clamation will be held for future
nets can be met without the acti-
vation of the four units.
All high pressure piping, valves,
furnace tubes and headers, and
Boat Group to Meet
Bay town Pleasure Boat
Association will meet tonight
at 7:30 in the Community
Building. Color movies on
fishing and hunting in Alaska
will be shown. A business
meeting follows the movies.
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New Jap Ship Loads
The first Japanese ship to take
on cargo at Bay town since World
War II was loaded by Dock em-
ployees recently. The ship "Oto-
wasan Maru,” is one of Japan’s
largest tankers and this was her
second voyage. She took on about
147,000 barrels of gasoline.
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ically and piping and cooling coils,
which will continue in use in
connection with the flash correc-
tors, will be relocated.
in sending and receiving messages contribute greatly to smooth
P Refinery operations. All messages go to the Houston Office
• where they are either answered or sent on to their proper
destinations. Information is returned to the Refinery teletype
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Four Cracking Coil Units to Come Down
Refinery service. Structural steel
in good condition will be reclaimed
where it can be salvaged econom-
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G. C. BLAIR, Metal Inspector
Measures pump case thickness, a
typical job
ule whereby they can now take
advantage of the routine cleaning
downtimes to inspect 30% or
more of the unit which would
otherwise have to be held off until
the general downtime for a 100%
inspection which may add two or
more days to the downtime. The
new inspection breakdown will
help inspectors to locate worn
(See INSPECTION, Page 3)
Employees Do
Job Quickly
“Boilermakers, welders, riggers,
and other craft employees turned
out one of the quickest major re-
pair jobs I’ve ever seen when they
worked on the B-2 furnace at the
Hydroformer recently,” says C.
H. Kelly, zone supervisor.
The go ahead was given Tues-
day, February 24, to start repair-
ing the furnace with material on
hand. By 4 p.m. the following
Sunday, repairs were completed
and the furnace was ready to con-
nect up and go back on the line.
“More than a whole day was
saved because of outstanding co-
operation among men in the vari-
ous crafts, including Central Shop
crews who completed jobs in a
minimum of time,” Kelly said.
Because of new, improved
methods in the scheduling of
equipment inspections, the
metal inspectors in the Engi-
neering division have found
that they can trim about two
days per year off of the total
number of days a pipe still is
down for repair and inspection.
THIS TWO-DAY savings in
inspection time amounts to a sig-
nificant economic savings on ma-
jor plant units which handle large
volumes of products every day.
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There are two types of down-
time on these units—one is the
general inspection downtime
which used to take place at two-
year intervals and lasted about 12
or 14 days. These downtimes re-
quired an inspection of 100% of
the equipment to determine what
needed repairs. In addition, there
is the routine cleaning downtime
which usually occurs about every
nine months for a period of about
ten days.
THE INSPECTION engineers
have for years maintained detailed
records and reports of all inspec-
tions. From an extensive study
and analysis of these reports, they
have recently developed a sched-
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Battery No. 2 will be dismantled
soon. Cracking Coil Battery No.
; ~ 2 was constructed in 1926. Units
ft | 6, 8, 9, and 10 have been idle
V ’ since the latter part of 1951, when
the equipment was filled with gas
oil to prevent internal corrosion.
Operating plans indicate that
future demands for refinery prod-
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I I THEY DEAL IN SPEED—Joyce Mazoch (standing) and
Helen Haney are teletype operators whose speed and efficiency
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q pj operators through the Houston Office. Messages go out at 60
I( words a minute. An average of 80 messages a day are received
from Houston and an average of 35 are sent, and include such
arm technical data as up-to-the-minute stock supply situations,
1 1^ tanker and barge shipments, tankcar and truck shipments, and
" so forth. The record number of messages Joyce and Helen have
sent to Houston in one day is 114. They have received as
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Baytown Briefs (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 01, No. 09, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1953, newspaper, March 6, 1953; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1417390/m1/1/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.