Francison Consulting

Project

Jetfuel Aviation Refinery

Client Name: JH Kelly / Confidential Energy Client
Project Name: Jetfuel Aviation Refinery
Role: Scheduling Services
Location: Ferndale, WA
Year in Progress: 2024
Project Value: Undisclosed

Our team provides expert scheduling support for a jet fuel refinery project within Ferndale operations, ensuring a phased, well-coordinated execution that aligns with project milestones, operational requirements, and industry best practices. As part of JH Kelly’s efforts to deliver this project for a major energy client, we develop and maintain a comprehensive, resource-driven schedule that integrates permitting, procurement, phased pipeline installations, system tie-ins, and commissioning, while accounting for turnaround windows and refinery workflow constraints.

Given the complexities of energy infrastructure, our approach ensures seamless sequencing of activities related to system isolations, preparatory work, welding, testing, and final restoration while maintaining strict adherence to safety protocols, regulatory requirements, and operational dependencies. Using critical path method (CPM) scheduling, risk analysis, and lookahead planning, we optimize labor efficiency, material availability, and work sequencing to minimize downtime and mitigate potential risks from supply chain disruptions, permitting challenges, or field conditions.

By closely coordinating with JH Kelly and project stakeholders, we facilitate the alignment of shutdown activities, critical tie-ins, and phased commissioning with ongoing operations, ensuring work progresses efficiently with minimal disruption. Our expertise in energy-sector scheduling allows us to anticipate project challenges, adjust work sequences proactively, and maintain schedule integrity. Through a strategic, data-driven approach, we support the successful and timely completion of this critical infrastructure project while maximizing efficiency and risk control.