Hardware Reliability Intern
Houston, Texas, United States
This internship provided a valuable learning experience in equipment reliability maintenance, with a primary focus on safety valves. These essential components play a critical role in safeguarding hydrocarbons underground, and any decrease in their reliability can lead to significant health, safety, and environmental risks.During the initial phase of my internship, I collaborated closely with equipment service providers to develop testing procedures, evaluate equipment quality results, and troubleshoot equipment failures. This process allowed us to update our testing and assembly procedures effectively. Subsequently, I participated in design reviews and shared my insights on equipment reliability, ensuring that our company practices aligned with legal and ethical standards.I documented my work through learning reports, which served as a means of communicating essential equipment vulnerabilities to a diverse production team of over 50 individuals. The use of universal language in these reports was crucial to enable the team to effectively monitor equipment health. Additionally, I dedicated part of my summer to enhancing an Excel-based Piston Pressure Tool. This tool incorporated multiple pressure, temperature, and depth inputs to calculate crucial pressures used in assessing valve health.The improved Piston Pressure Tool was then applied to a valve in a high-risk well, providing recommendations to extend its lifespan and safeguard approximately $80 million in production