Planning and Implementation

Project Planning and Implementation

Sound investments always begin with sound ideas. At Purvin & Gertz, we focus on helping clients turn ideas into practical, realizable projects and investments. We begin by objectively evaluating the concept, then recommend the best ways to make the project a success. Throughout the planning stage, we advise clients in technical, economic, and marketing matters as well as government policies and regulations.

Strategic Planning

Our tools, data bases and industry knowledge allow us to bring knowledge and experience as well as sound processes to planning. We assist clients in strategic planning for the entire company, specific business units or strategic initiatives. Our knowledge base allows us to help clients quickly screen ideas and develop implementation plans.

A Knowledge of Details

During project implementation, we assist our clients in preparing specifications, selecting the contractor and process licensor, negotiating the construction contract and developing the operating and marketing plan. Utilizing our engineering, scheduling, procurement and budgeting expertise, we also provide expert project management services during construction of processing facilities and transportation systems.

Feasibility Studies

One of the services we frequently provide our clients is assessing the profitability of new ventures. In effect, we assist the client in turning conceptual ideas into business reality. We combine our skill in industry trend analysis with our extensive databases on capital and operating costs and provide analysis accurately determine whether a new project or existing operation is likely to be profitable.

Aspen PIMS™ Model Review

Aspen Technology's PIMS™ LP modeling system has long been the de-facto standard in the refining industry.  The explosive growth in the performance of personal computers has enabled an increasing trend towards PIMS™ models with more complex structures.  While these more complex models often offer elegant solutions to problems that could not be easily addressed in the past, it is our experience that many may contain undetected structural deficiencies that are not easily undersood by the novice or intermediate user.  Therefore, any model can benefit from a periodic review by outside experts.  Using our standard Aspen PIMS™ expertise, our PIMS™ consultants can review your LP Model and identify and correct structural deficiencies with the objective of improving model performance and solution reliability.