From Paper to Performance: Digitizing Maintenance at ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge Complex
About This Session
Recorded as part of Redlist ATTAIN '25.
ExxonMobil Baton Rouge's Daniel Knight shares how one of North America's largest refining and chemical complexes is replacing mountains of paper and time-based PMs with a scalable, condition-based program powered by Redlist. From nearly 500 steam turbines to thousands of rotating assets, the Baton Rouge team is digitizing field work, standardizing procedures, and turning real-time data into action—and savings.
What's Discussed
- Why they moved from time-based to condition-based PMs across a massive site
- Eliminating paperwork with mobile, talk-to-text, and QR/asset tagging
- Preventing mis-lubrication with on-asset specs available 24/7
- Faster onboarding and navigation via in-app mapping (right to the asset)
- Using Redlist's Comms Hub for real-time, asset-linked collaboration
- Customizable digital forms (oil changes, greasing, oil mist, turbine GI) and as-found/as-left capture
- One-stop reporting: PM compliance (incl. blanket WOs), inventory runs, contract support
- Rapid configuration turnaround (most changes in 4–5 days) and guided implementation
Results and Impact
- Better data quality and visibility for engineers, specialists, and equipment owners
- Less rework and fewer errors; reduced time spent chasing spreadsheets and emails
- Lower consumables and fewer intrusive opens (cutting contamination risk)
- Accelerating the shift to true condition-based maintenance
- Early ROI with expected annual savings of over $1M at full scale
- 80% of the refinery live; expansion to the chemical plant and additional groups underway
Learn more about the work Redlist is doing in the Oil & Gas Industry and see how teams like ExxonMobil Baton Rouge are scaling reliability, cutting costs, and making data work for them.
About the Speaker
Daniel Knight
ExxonMobil
Daniel Knight is a reliability and mechanical maintenance leader at the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Complex, where he has worked for roughly 25 years. In recent years, he has focused on the site's mechanical preventive maintenance (PM) program, overseeing lubrication PMs, safety-critical checks on nearly 500 steam turbines, and other reliability-focused activities.
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