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Shutdowns · Turnarounds · Outages

Know your event’s
real health.

Independent turnaround and outage assurance for refining, chemicals, industrial gas, LNG, and power teams that need a defensible read on readiness, schedule quality, scope risk, and team alignment before execution.

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Where the data is as tough as the work.

Assurance Review · AR3 · T-5M

STOAR

STOAR readiness score

68/100
Developing
Independent, consultant-ledGate expectation 70

Contributing lenses

Steering team effectiveness58
Planning maturity72
Team alignment71
Scope definition82
Schedule assessment64

Flagged before baseline

  • Long-lead exchanger bundles not yet on order
  • Critical-path logic incomplete

Illustrative, not actual client data

Schedule topologyFloat disciplineCritical-path testResource loadingReadiness gatesScope rationalizationLogic integrityLessons learnedBenchmarkingExecution performanceSchedule topologyFloat disciplineCritical-path testResource loadingReadiness gatesScope rationalizationLogic integrityLessons learnedBenchmarkingExecution performance

Why STO Intelligence

Events slip, teams misalign, and costs overrun, usually because visibility arrives too late to do anything about it.

STOAR gives everyone who owns the event, from the turnaround managers to the assurance, capital-projects, and steering leaders, a clear, defensible read on where the team actually stands against best practice, early enough to change the outcome.

See it coming

STOAR surfaces readiness gaps and execution risks at the gates that matter, while there's still time to act, not after the unit's down. AI-led interviews reach every discipline, so nothing hides in the seat nobody got to.

Align the team

We assess capability, leadership effectiveness, and cross-discipline alignment, so the whole team is reading the event the same way.

Learn fast

Line-by-line performance analysis and closeout assurance capture what actually happened, and turn it into the next event's advantage.

What STOAR is

Assurance across the whole arc, not a single snapshot.

The Turnaround Assurance Review (STOAR) runs from readiness on the front end through closeout and lessons learned on the back end, measuring where the team is against where best practice says it should be.

Front end

Readiness

  • Gate-based readiness assessment
  • AI-led one-on-one interviews across every discipline
  • Scope definition & challenge
  • Schedule quality, logic & critical path
  • Team & leadership alignment

Through execution

Assurance

  • On-the-floor team coaching & support
  • Early risk identification & mitigation plans
  • Project-controls & schedule-management effectiveness

Back end

Closeout

  • Schedule effectiveness analysis (baseline vs. as-built)
  • Benchmarking against best practice
  • Lessons learned that carry forward

Who STOAR is for

Built for the events that cannot afford to be read late.

The same method, the same names, across every market we serve. Refining leads, but the discipline carries.

Refining

FCC, coker, hydroprocessing, and alky turnarounds.

Chemicals & Petrochemicals

Ethylene and olefins crackers, ammonia and fertilizer plants, derivatives and polymers.

Industrial Gas

Air separation units, hydrogen and syngas plants, on-site supply.

LNG

Liquefaction and regas trains, cryogenic systems.

Power & Utility

Planned generation outages, boiler and turbine, combined-cycle.

Founder-led

Independent

Full lifecycle

Public-framework methodology (DCMA / GAO / AACE / PMI)

Services

All services→
00STO·CORE
Foundation · The standard the reviews measure against
00STO·PATH
Foundation · The software that runs the standard
01STOAR
Tier 1 · Readiness through closeout
02STO·SAR
Tier 1 · Structure and logic before lock
03STO·SPR
Tier 1 · Baseline vs. as-built ground truth
04STO·SDC
Tier 1 · Plan lean, plan right
05STO·PRE
Tier 2 · Strategy before scope
06STO·LEAD
Tier 2 · Build the bench

STO Intelligence is the independent, expert-guided option: insight and an action plan without a major platform rollout or an engineering-firm-scale engagement.

Tom Mankowski, Founder of STO Intelligence

Founder-led

STO Intelligence is led by Tom Mankowski, who brings 25 years in STO planning, assurance, schedule review, and execution analysis across refining, chemicals, and energy.

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What you receive

Documented findings, not just an opinion.

Every applicable review ends with a live readout and a documented record you keep. The exact deliverables depend on the service.

01

Readiness scorecard

02

Schedule quality findings

03

Scope and gap register

04

Action-priority matrix

05

Executive readout

06

Closeout and lessons-learned report

How it works

Three steps to a defensible read.

01

Assess the event

An independent read on readiness, schedule, scope, and team alignment.

02

Prioritize the gaps

Ranked findings and an action-priority view leadership can act on.

03

Execute with confidence

A defensible action plan carried into execution.

Sharper decisions. Shorter turnarounds.

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