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Vol. 25
No. 12
November 1977
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Mike Mitchell, left, points out
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Johnson Heads Off Trouble
By Reporting Hydrogen Leak
Process, Mechanical Participate In
Skills Course For New Supervisors
Teagle Foundation Ups Salary
Limitation; New School Added
Energy Conservation Results
From Program Developed By
Employees In Oil Movements
At left above, Ernest Bradley
greets Governor Dolph Briscoe
at the Fuels North dedication
held October 26. More photos
and other information needed in
applying for scholarships may be
obtained at the following plant
locations: refinery—Doug Hamil,
Extension 2278, Room NW-20,
Main Office; chemical plant—
Joyce Muckleroy, Extension 3798,
Room 890, Main Office; ER&E—
Charlotte Taylor, Extension 3404,
Room 308, Research Center.
Charlie Johnson is shown at valve
that caused Hydrocracker shut-
down.
are on page 5. Center, Bill Camp page 4. Right, Jason Novosad,
and daughter Becky are shown
at the employee open house
October 30. More pictures are on
the-job disabling injury.
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Safety Looks Good
In Chemical Plant
Chemical Plant employees can
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a steam leak and possible area where
BAYTOWN BRIEFS
Published for employees of Exxon Company, U.S.A.’s Baytown Refinery, Exxon Research and Engineering Company’s
Exxon Research Center, and Exxon Chemical Company U.S.A.’s Baytown Chemical Plant
begin the Thanksgiving holidays
with 177 days without an
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quaint recently promoted em-
ployees for their new supervisory
roles. The second session of the
five-day course was completed
near the end of September. A
total of 32 employees attended
the sessions. Participants in-
cluded Process and Mechanical
employees.
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“Charlie Johnson’s alertness
and desire to do a good job pos-
sibly prevented a more serious
incident,” it was reported in an
Operations Safety Flash Novem-
ber 1.
The article described an inci-
dent at Hydrocracking Unit 1 in
which Johnson’s attention to de-
tails and recognition of changes
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as Jim Ponder looks on.
What's New
This is a picture of Wilbur
Stephenson, chemical plant
machinist, wearing safely
glasses. So, what’s unusual
about that? See the rest of
the story on page 3.
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son of Gary Novosad, is at the
Crude Distillation open house
featured on page 8.
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Teagle Foundation scholarship
applications for the school year
beginning in the fall of 1978 will
be accepted from children of
Exxon employees whose annual
salary is $35,000 or below. The
previous limitation was $30,000.
Another school, Polytechnic
institute of New York, has been
added to the list of designated
schools for a regular course of
study.
Teagle assistance is normally
limited to two members of a
family. However, the Foundation
will accept applications from
three family members if the an-
nual salary of the Exxon em-
ployee is less than $25,000.
Teagle scholarships may be
granted to employees with at least
three years’ service, sons or
daughters of employees with at
least three years’ service, and
sons and daughters of Jiving or
deceased retired employees or
employees who died in company
service.
In addition, widows of em-
ployees or annuitants are eligible
for nursing or physical therapy
scholarships.
Applications for the regular
course of study beginning next
fall must be in Baytown offices
by Friday, December 30 of this
year.
Forms, supporting documents,
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In a joint effort between Pro-
cess and Mechanical, the Bay-
town Refinery’s training staff is
now offering a redesigned course
for recently appointed supervi-
sors. The course is appropriately
named “Supervisor’s Orientation
Program” and was revamped in
response to a need to better ac-
a steam leak survey, a monthly
check of the controller on heated
tanks, a quarterly steam trap
survey, installation of additional
steam meters for improved stew-
ardship and an attempt to opti-
mize unit rundown temperatures.
Earlier this year, Jim Ponder,
as part of a special assignment
began hunting steam traps and
numbering such traps to facili-
tate future checks. A new pro-
gram was also begun which set
up a quarterly steam trap survey
to make sure that all traps are
functioning properly. “In some
cases,” Ponder said, “we in-
stalled additional steam meters
to help us steward steam con-
sumption.”
Another part of this program
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in operating conditions possibly
prevented injuries to personnel
and major damages to the unit.
During a routine troubleshoot-
ing procedure for checking a
flow transmitter near the top of
a reactor at the Hydrocracker,
Johnson, an instrument techni-
cian trainee, noticed a zero flow
reading, then made some minor
repairs on the first transmilter.
After completing the repairs,
he inspected the zero-reading
transmitter and found it had a
cracked block valve which was
allowing hydrogen to leak to the
atmosphere.
"I told Process about this leak-
ing hydrogen real fast, and they
shut down the unit so repairs
could be made to the leaking
valve,” Johnson said.
“The leak was just a few feet
from the top of a furnace, but
fortunately it was high enough
in the air that the leaking hydro-
gen was not ignited,” he com-
mented. “If it had been a few
stories lower, there might have
been a serious explosion.”
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Bob Witte, Oil Movements De-
partment head, pointed out that
new chief operators in Process
as well as area supervisors in
Mechanical are constantly faced
with questions concerning admin-
istration of the union contract,
accounting, budget principles,
maintenance and employee rules.
“Basically, our aim with this new
course is to provide these new
supervisors with clear expecta-
tions of exactly what their super-
visors want them to do and to
equip them with the necessary
tools to get the job done,” said
Witte. Rufo Sanchez, Jr., head of
Specialties, was overall coordi-
nator of the project.
Redesigned by Bill Johnson
Two prior courses for first-
line supervisors were offered dur-
(See COURSE, Page 2)
In early fall, a program was
implemented which is the result
of employee efforts to conserve
energy in the Oil Movements
Department.
The program was developed
with the help of process techni-
cians and chief operators in Area
II of Oil Movements, supervised
by Tony Fama. Fama said that
“Process Technician Jim Ponder
and Chief Operators Mike Mit-
chell and Lester Knupple have
done a great job of carrying this
project from start to finish.”
From a conservation stand-
point, the study focused on more
careful maintenance of the use
of steam as a heating mechan-
ism and also on maintenance of
unit rundown temperatures.
Program development included
Chemical Plant is good,” said
Safely Coordinator T. V. Dod-
son. “Special congratulations
an* in order for the Chemicals
Operations Division for com-
pleting October with an all-in-
jury index of 0.00.”
During October, Chemical
Plant employees recorded one of
I he safest months of 1977, with
only 2 nonrestrictive work in-
juries and one of-the-job dis-
abling injury. The all-injury in-
dex for the month was 0.85.
So far in November, employ-
ees have worked the first half
of l he month with no injuries
and have an all-injury index of
0.00.
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