Mr. Francisco Gonzalez

Francisco Gonzalez is the Reliability Manager for Enterprise Products. Enterprise Products currently operates machinery over 2.1 MM installed horsepower in Natural Gas and NGL Processing Plants and over 50,000 miles of pipelines transportation various NGLs, and Natural Gas, Crude and Refine Products in the USA.

Mr. Gonzalez has over 17 years of experience in Operations and Maintenance of Rotating Equipment, 11 years at Enterprise and 6 years with Amoco Chemical at Texas City. The Reliability Department at Enterprise is primarily responsible for providing technical support to operations and maintenance on all rotating equipment. The Reliability Department provide services to operation and maintenance which include rotating equipment vibration monitoring, aerothermal performance monitoring, troubleshooting, overhaul, performance testing and gas turbine and compressor optimization as well as evaluating short term and long term reliability improvements for all rotating equipment. Enterprise currently operates over 325 gas turbine compressor and pump packages, and over 290 reciprocating compressor packages.

Mr. Gonzalez has co authored several technical papers for Turbo Machinery Symposium and ASME Power Gen as well as articles on Improving Reliability in various publications. Mr. Gonzalez graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1990.