First I've heard of it,
but back bout 20 years ago I taught a class called the fundamentals of refining for the non-technical person to newbies and non-operator types. Developed straight out of the book by the same name, which I had a copy of and no one else I knew did. I kept it locked up.
3 day course, all technical in nature, it could have been called a bit ..dry.
Some video games and animation would have been nice to keep the eyes open in the audience.
BTW chevron is considered the leader in the refining industry, whatever they do becomes a trend in like 5 days.
I used to have a book printed by chevron that was a compilation of every single bit on information a person could ever need in the mechanical field.
I bet they paid their training department $$$ millions to develop that book.
Only problem was, a good part of it was obsolete by the time I got my hands on it.
Fer instance it had procedures for aligning machines to each other using rim and face method, which was replaced in the early 80's by double-reverse alignment, which was replaced in the 90s with lasers.
It was still a good training tool and reference manual until some rat bastage walked off with it.
I used to have lots of technical books. Good ones, and my name was written inside the cover of every one of em. I loved my books.
People would ask to borrow one of my books and I'd always say leave a credit card. They'd laugh until I told em I wasn't joking.
Nowadays you can find almost everything in the interwebs, except the good old stuff that we never taught the whippersnappers. Secrets.
Lost art stuff like metal-stitching and running in packing.
I remember this one time ......
