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Plant Turnaround Services, Planned to Protect Your Uptime

Plant Shutdown Services and Turnaround Management

Boardman LLC approaches every project with a disciplined, proactive planning methodology built to eliminate surprises. Scope creep and budget overruns are preventable with the right plant shutdown services partner. Your dedicated turnaround manager maps every task, resource, and contingency before a single valve is turned.

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End-to-End Plant Turnaround Services

Your plant is unique, and your turnaround plan should be too. Boardman LLC offers comprehensive plant turnaround services tailored to your facility’s needs and your preferred level of involvement. You can hand Boardman the entire project, or bring your own drawings and direct exactly what gets done.

Pre-Turnaround Planning and Scoping

Your turnaround starts long before work begins. Boardman’s team handles long-lead procurement, detailed scheduling, and thorough risk assessment, laying the groundwork that protects your budget and your timeline from day one.

Execution and Field Services

During your outage, Boardman’s multi-craft field teams manage mechanical integrity work, piping repairs, vessel cleaning, and specialized Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) inspections. Real-time work tracking keeps you informed at every stage. Plant turnarounds of any scope are met with the same focused attention to safety and quality.

Post-Turnaround Closeout and Restart Support

Your relationship with Boardman doesn’t end at closeout. Your project receives detailed data-driven reporting, a comprehensive lessons-learned review, and hands-on restart support. Our team walks you through the results, documenting what worked, what to improve, and how to make your next plant turnarounds even more efficient.

Why Choose Boardman for Your Next Outage?

Selecting the right plant turnaround company is one of the most consequential decisions your team will make. Boardman LLC brings over a century of hands-on experience to every outage, backed by ASME certification held since 1952, ensuring your project is built to code and built to last. Safety is engineered into every phase of your work, because every person on your site deserves to go home safe, every shift. Real-time work tracking and advanced NDT methods keep your schedule protected, and your level of involvement is always your call. At Boardman, we adapt to fit your project, not the other way around.

Service Areas

Boardman LLC delivers plant turnaround services across:

  • Oklahoma
  • Texas
  • New Mexico
  • Colorado
  • Arkansas
  • Missouri
  • Kansas

Your project benefits from local knowledge and field teams that understand the operational demands of your region.

Frequently Asked Questions

Choosing the right plant turnaround company is important, and you deserve straight answers before the work begins.

A shutdown is typically an unplanned or emergency halt of operations. A plant turnaround is a scheduled maintenance event carefully planned in advance, where inspections, repairs, and upgrades are performed to restore and improve operational integrity.

Duration depends on scope, facility size, and industry. Your pre-turnaround planning session with Boardman produces a realistic, detailed schedule before any work begins.

Safety is engineered into every phase of your turnaround from pre-job hazard analysis through final walkdown. Boardman’s teams follow strict safety protocols, and real-time monitoring keeps your entire crew and your facility protected at every critical step.

Yes, Boardman LLC’s field teams perform vessel modifications on-site. As an ASME-certified organization, your modifications meet rigorous code requirements, giving you full confidence in both craft and regulatory compliance.

Definitely a great team effort between HFS and Boardman to get this knocked out quickly with no mistakes.  Appreciate you and your teams help getting this across the finish line!

Reliability & Inspection

HF Sinclair

The BFS team is very responsive, conduct quality work, and produce detailed reports.  They have excellent level of support, responsiveness and quality work!

Construction Manager

Vestas

“I am glad you guys do the newsletters. Educate AND do the work. Most don’t do this. It is similar to what Dave Ramsay says about looking for a Financial Advisor… look for one with a heart of a teacher.”

Equipment Engineer

Fluor

“I would like to go out of my way to say this is the quickest I have seen a vessel come together. Your ability to manage this on such short notice does not go unnoticed and definitely will earn you some more business. Your professional approach and ability to keep this moving was amazing! I was hoping to see this thing through to the end and see about getting some Guiness world record trophy on our walls.”

Mechanical Engineer

Chevron

“Just wanted to send a quick thank you for sending these newsletters. I really enjoy them and share them with others at the office.”

Project Management

Kestrel Engineering

“Thank you for all your help on this order. Please let your team know that everything Boardman has done for this order has been top notch!”

Mechanical Engineer

Worley

“It was a real pleasure working with you and your team. I wish all vendors would have the same high quality team!”

Expeditor

Worley

“Your engineering team has gone above and beyond for our current projects. We have thrown quite a few changes at them and they have dug into code details that are not normally required to satisfy the requests of some of our SME folks. They are always available, even when they’re off or on weekends to help answer any urgent questions. I tried to find something we can do to help recognize the extra efforts, but could not come up with anything. Thank you for the efforts and willingness to work with us so closely on these urgent jobs.”

Mechanical Engineer

Chevron

“It was great pleasure and it was sure a huge effort pulled by Boardman organization. Promoting such events are very helpful to the engineering community in general but very few places realize the same. Boardman being exceptional and very hospitable place to be for this event. I want to say Thank You Boardman!”

Mechanical Engineer

Chevron

“The class was an excellent use of time and has increased my industry knowledge. Good mix of both end user and design engineer attendance which drove discussions into new directions. I will highly recommend to my firm for attendance next year.”

Mechanical Engineer

S&B Engineering

“Thank you and everyone at Boardman for an excellent 2 days of training and exceptional hospitality. While it gave me the opportunity to get out of the office for 2 days, it was also a great training/refreshing opportunity for me and on top of it, I got to visit your facility, which I think is quite impressive. Hope to have some more work in your shop soon. There are several folks here who were amazed when I told them that you guys had welding stations set up and each of us got to weld and try out as many as 4 welding processes. Please keep me posted on the next training session.”

Vessel Engineer

Burns & McDonnell

“I just wanted to say thank you very much to you and your team for all of the work that you put in to make this seminar possible. I was very impressed with the quality of the seminar. It is the best technical seminars I have been to. The classroom intermixed with shop time made the experience a one of a kind. The instructor is a wealth of knowledge. I was also very impressed with the care and concern that you had for those attending. You guys have superb customer service. I really appreciate the opportunity and it means a lot.”

Mechanical Engineer

MKEC Engineering

“Thank you guys very much for putting together the Pressure Vessel Fabrication presentation. I’ve heard great things from about the vessels currently in your shop. We look forward to building a long lasting relationship.”

Corrosion/Materials Engineer

Phillips 66

“The Boardman team’s expertise, experience and processes made our project easy. The communication between their team and mine ensured our project ran smoothly. I knew I could count on the work they sent. I look forward to working with a company that communicates well and takes pride in their work.”

Mechanical Engineer

Worley

“I just wanted to share some photos of the Deisobutonizer being lifted into place yesterday. None of this would have been possible without your efforts in both the manufacturing and transport of the tower. This is the largest structure on the project and you all deserve a lot of credit for this milestone. It was not only a pleasure to work with you all on this fabrication and hauling to site of the monstrosity but it was a privilege to have such a team behind us to make this happen with no incident and what on the surface seemed child’s play. You all should be very proud of yourselves and your collective teams and firms, without you none of this was even conceivable.”

Materials & Logistics

Cenovus Superior Refinery

“I worked with Boardman on a project involving multiple vessels. The team’s impressive knowledge of ASME Section VIII Div 1 was critical to the success of the project. I enjoyed seeing the vessels in person during an engineering design course at the Boardman facility. The team always kept me in the loop and ensured quality work from fabrication through shipment.”

Mechanical Engineer

Black & Veatch

“Boardman was great to work with from the initial bidding phase through procurement. It is clear that they value relationships and are very professional. I have worked with Boardman in the past, and they continue to meet the requirements of our projects and owners. I value our relationship and hope to continue to work with them in the future.”

Sr. Procurement Manager

Black & Veatch

“Thank you for the high level of communication on this project and the effort put into making things work. So far this project has gone smoothly and our efforts have not gone unnoticed. Specifically the time invested in making sure the anchor bolt pattern matched their existing foundation. Not sure if it is my place to say but you are highly regarded at this refinery.”

Mechanical Engineer

Merrick Engineering

“I am continually impressed with the level of quality and professionalism on this project from the beginning.”

Inspector

HF Sinclair

“Boardman was very professional throughout the engineering and design of this vessel. They did a really good job on fabrication.”

Project Manager

Chevron Phillips Chemical