Luis Colina highlights Delpro role: Our expertise in petrochemical plant shutdowns makes us a benchmark in the industry.

Luis Colina highlights the role of DELPRO: “Our expertise in petrochemical plant shutdowns makes us a benchmark in the industry.”

With more than 25 years of experience in the petrochemical industry, Luis Colina Linderman has poured his knowledge into his role as Director of Strategic Alliances at DELPRO INGENIERÍA, playing a key role in the company’s expansion throughout Latin America.

He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Civil Engineering from Federico Santa María Technical University, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Corrosion from the University of Valparaíso. Colina gained valuable experience at ENAP, where he led successful plant turnaround processes.

Today at DELPRO INGENIERÍA, he states that plant shutdowns are “a highly complex activity in which between 1,500 and 3,000 people can participate.” Since 2014, he has transformed how these shutdowns are executed in the petrochemical industry, particularly at ENAP, through a change of approach that integrates the process across all refinery areas. According to Colina, this strategy ensured compliance with scheduled deadlines, personnel safety, and respect for the assigned budget.

Planning is key to achieving good results, with every detail attended to 18 to 24 months in advance. Colina emphasizes that “it is important that everyone across the company understands the magnitude of the event.”

All this knowledge accumulated over more than two decades has made Luis Colina a fundamental figure in DELPRO INGENIERÍA’s commercial expansion, successfully leading plant turnaround processes in refineries throughout Latin America.

“We are a company that has strongly developed planning, control, and monitoring processes for plant shutdowns, and we expect to complement the local experience of neighboring countries with that of our experts,” Colina points out.

He adds: “We want to demonstrate the experience we have in planning and controlling plant shutdowns, having already achieved successful results in our country. We are convinced that this national experience can be exported to our neighbors.”

Colina stresses that “DELPRO INGENIERÍA has reached a size that forces it to look further afield, so it is interesting to export the results of what we have done in the Chilean petrochemical industry. We have highly qualified professionals who have been with us since the beginning, accumulating experience that will be key to growth.”

Finally, he explains that one of DELPRO INGENIERÍA’s strengths lies in its professionals’ deep knowledge of equipment and process units, regardless of their area of action — whether procurement, maintenance, or operations — which allows them to “know the refinery as a whole,” concludes Luis Colina.