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Meet the challenge.

Caught in a squeeze between rising costs and restrictive regulations, the refining industry faces growing challenges.

With our client-centered culture, Burns & McDonnell can help you gain a competitive advantage in today’s refining market. Seize the opportunity.

Safety First


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It’s our culture. Every project begins with a safety plan. We demand uncompromising safety leadership for ourselves and for our clients.

That’s why we can celebrate safety milestones, such as over 4 million work hours performed without a recordable incident for a refinery client. It’s the reason our clients come back again and again.

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Design and EPC Solutions in One

Our high-performance refinery teams don’t provide textbook solutions.They solve problems with creative ideas that save you money. They keep a sharp eye on costs, just like an owner would. Open-book, guaranteed maximum-price contracts, with cost underruns returned to you, are a part of our project execution.

Our disciplined front-end loading work ensures refinery project success. Our multi-subcontractor construction approach provides high productivity — leading to reduced labor costs and on-schedule completion. Our experienced estimators, engineers and construction managers are 100 percent committed to your success. They provide EPC services that deliver predictable results.



Our Clients
  • Chevron
  • Coffeyville Resources
  • ConocoPhillips
  • ExxonMobil
  • Flint Hills Resources
  • Frontier Oil
  • Hovensa
  • Lyondell-Citgo
  • Marathon Petroleum
  • National Cooperative Refinery Association
  • Shell
  • Sinclair Oil
  • Suncor
  • Sunoco
  • Valero

Process Expertise

  • Hydrotreating
  • Crude unit/vacuum unit
  • Isomerization
  • Coking
  • Reforming
  • Gas processing/treating
  • Thermal cracking/visbreaking
  • Sulfur recovery
  • Amine systems
  • Sour water stripping
  • Utility systems
  • NOx reduction
  • Flare systems
  • Flare gas recovery
  • Steam generation
  • Co-generation
  • Electrical distribution
  • Water treatment
  • Tailgas treating



Knowledge on Demand Webinar:
Reducing the Benzene Risk — How Refiners Meet the New EPA Regulations

Evaluate the pros and cons of pre-or post-fractionation, saturation and extraction as potential process for your refinery, and how a combination of two or more of these may be required to meet EPA levels. Learn how some technologies may also generate a revenue stream that can offset your capital expenditures from Burns & McDonnell experts Dave Nispel, refining business development manager, and Dominic Varraveto, refinery process manager.

               
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(53.38-minute run time — 164.8 MB)

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Webinar Slides: "Reducing the Benzene Risk"

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Many agencies’ environmental regulations are designed to protect one of three major environmental elements: air, water and earth. 
Publish Date: 01-JAN-2008 12:00 AM

Cutting Through the Haze
How will refiners meet EPA’s new benzene standards? 
Publish Date: 01-OCT-2007 12:00 AM

Toxicity Reduction Using Powder Activated Carbon
Technical paper: The domestic petrochemical industry is increasingly going toward heavy and sour crude slates. A consequence of the change is increased concerns related to the wastewater effluent toxicity. 
Publish Date: 31-JUL-2007 12:00 AM

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Publish Date: 01-JUL-2007 12:00 AM

Walk Away Clean with Environmental Program Management
Coordinating environmental tasks saps time and energy from companies' core businesses. In an emergency situation, millions in fines or even lives can be at stake. 
Publish Date: 01-APR-2007 12:00 AM

OSBL Considerations for Refinery Expansion Projects
Technical paper: Identify and compare OSBL requirements for expansion projects and discuss guidelines for improving the accuracy of the OSBL definition early in project development. 
Publish Date: 18-MAR-2007 12:00 AM

AIChE Newsletter: OSBL Tips for Process Engineers
Many capital projects are divided into two parts, inside the battery limits (ISBL) and outside the battery limits (OSBL). OSBL often does not get as much attention as ISBL during a project. However, it can easily amount to one-third or more of the total project cost. 
Publish Date: 01-FEB-2007 12:00 AM

Oil & Gas Journal: Refinery Revamp
ConocoPhillips revamps crude unit to increase flexibility, profitability. 
Publish Date: 01-AUG-2006 12:00 AM

NPRA publication: ConocoPhillips Refinery Crude Unit Revamp Boosts Profitability
In today’s refining industry, process flexibility is a key component in maximizing refinery profit. 
Publish Date: 14-JUN-2006 12:00 AM

Refining the Process: Series of Projects Expands Independent Refiner's Clean Fuels Capabilities
Sinclair Tulsa Refining is developing clean fuels operations at its Tulsa, Okla., refinery to meet gasoline and diesel sulfur reduction mandates from the Environmental Protection Agency. 
Publish Date: 01-APR-2006 12:00 AM



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