This joint educational webinar equips gas turbine operators and maintenance leaders with guidance and best practices for proactive turbine oil maintenance and varnish control, enabling high turbine availability, long‑term reliability, stable performance, and lower O&M cost. Eddie Rowland, CC Jensen’s clean‑oil expert, will outline modern oil‑management strategies, while Steve Malec, reliability expert at Duke Energy, and Tom Freeman, former GE turbine engineering executive, share concise real‑world insights from both plant‑level operations and fleet‑wide experience. The session explains how oil contamination and varnish form, how it affects critical system components such as bearings, control hydraulics, and heat exchangers, and how structured oil analysis, online monitoring, and advanced filtration technologies ensure optimal oil condition for safe and fast startups, efficient bearing cooling, and extended component life. Register here.
Speakers
Tom Freeman
CEO
Gas Turbine Coach LLC
Steve Malec
Lead Engineering Technologist
Duke Energy
Eddie Rowland
Power and Industry Sales Manager
C.C.Jensen, Inc.
Eddie Rowland is a Power and Industry Sales Manager for CC Jensen, Inc. Mr. Rowland has 25+ years’ experience working both as a user and consultant in various markets including Power Generation, Pulp and Paper, Steel, Metal Heat Treating and General Industry, for filtration and rotating equipment. He brings both a working knowledge of filtration and a good understanding of a variety of different real-world applications. He is ICML MLA 1 Certified and a graduate of Troy University.
Tom Freeman brings more than forty years of experience from advanced aerospace propulsion to utility-scale electric power generation. He began his engineering career at Pratt & Whitney, working on advanced X-plane propulsion systems ranging from fighters to hypersonics. He later spent twenty-six years at GE (now GE Vernova) in engineering and global commercial roles supporting the heavy-duty gas turbine fleet serving power systems worldwide, and the full range of gas power technologies. He retired from GE in June 2025. Tom is now CEO of Gas Turbine Coach LLC, where he leads a team of senior energy industry experts providing consulting services including owner’s engineering, project development, and strategic advisory work for government agencies and financial institutions. Tom and his wife Jerri have three grown children and five grandchildren. As in the cartoon, Jerri wins every episode.