Several months after an unplanned outage, a petrochemical complex took an early shutdown to perform major maintenance. The operator filed an insurance claim for economic damages. Baker & O'Brien was engaged to assess production losses for the outage, examine operator actions to mitigate the economic damages, and review the impact of the early shutdown on the long-term turnaround cycle. We facilitated the dispute resolution process through technical memoranda and discussions between the insurance market and the operator.

Damage to a refinery dock caused an extended interruption for repairs, resulting in lost production and costly non-routine logistics to meet customer needs. We were requested to evaluate lost profits and mitigation costs which, as monthly operating plans were no longer available, was a challenge. Therefore, we presented expert opinions based on an alternative approach using historical refinery operating results.