Sarah Earl

In today’s high-stakes industrial environment, executing turnarounds with precision is critical to maintaining operational integrity, safety, and profitability. Drawing from her extensive experience at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, Sarah Earl will share practical insights into how disciplined planning, rigorous scope evaluation, and close collaboration with reliability and asset teams are reshaping turnaround execution. This session will explore how to ensure that every scope item contributes to a safer, more reliable operating interval, while staying on time and within budget. 

You will learn how to: 

• Move from automatic inclusion to data-driven, risk-justified scope decisions
• Align closely with reliability and asset teams to ensure scope supports long-term operability 
• Validate inspection inputs and RBI/DMR data to prioritize the right work 
• Shift mindset from “include everything” to “justify everything” 
• Balance risk, budget, and system criticality to focus resources effectively