Accidents involving rotating equipment in chemical, petrochemical, petroleum, and gas plants can result in damage to other process equipment and catalysts along with lost production. Conversely, process upsets, process instrumentation failure, or failures of other process equipment can result in damage to rotating equipment. An effective rotating equipment loss prevention program will be an int...

This study describes the simulation of gas demand for greenhouses in the agricultural area. Using the data provided by an energy company providing gas to over 3600 individual greenhouses , several models are developed to predict the gas demand of an individual green house. Using these models peak smoothing strategies for the overall gas demand can be developed and tested. Three of such peak smo...

On 9 October 2001 two US oil companies Chevron and Texaco merged. Their long-term joint venture operation, known as Caltex (formed in 1936 and operating in East and Southern Africa, Middle East, Asia and Australasia), was incorporated into the one global energy company. This global enterprise will be highly competitive across all energy sectors, as the new company brings together a wealth of ta...

By providing feedback to customers on home electricity and natural gas usage with a focus on peer comparisons, utilities can reduce energy consumption at a low cost. We analyze data from two large-scale, random-assignment field experiments conducted by utility companies providing electricity (the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)) and electricity and natural gas (Puget Sound Energy (...

The objectives of this paper are five-folds, namely (a) to investigate the awareness of management and employees about restructuring exercise, (b) to analyze whether the organizational restructuring has any impact on the employees’ performance and motivation at the Company, (c) to identify whether employees’ attitude will influence their motivation and job performance towards organizational res...

The present study aimed to assess the impact of spiritual leadership on organizational justice and organizational commitment of Gas Company employees of Ardabil province. The research method was descriptive and statistical population includes all official personnel of Gas Company. The research sample includes 70 people selected by the sampling formula in limited population. These numbers are se...