Refining
The refining industry is challenged by ever-changing markets, demand fluctuations and restrictive regulations.
Investment in Refineries: More Important Than Ever
You are focused on solutions that create opportunities — opportunities to capitalize on market incentives, reduce project costs and achieve schedule advantages. Our refining teams deliver predictable project results that solve industry challenges and support your business success.
As regulations and incentives for renewable and low-carbon intensity projects evolve, our team can evaluate solutions in renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), or other technologies to suit your operations.
How We Bring Your Refining Projects to Life
Our project teams are client-focused, bringing our employee ownership perspective to your projects, looking for process engineering and construction solutions that emphasize your priorities: uncompromising safety, cost-consciousness decision-making and predictable project execution.
We also bring an innovative perspective to the integration of renewable, low-carbon or carbon-neutral projects into your refining portfolio. We can help you define and develop projects that leverage your existing assets into future-focused technologies that demonstrate your commitment to energy security.
Safety First in Refining Projects — and Beyond
It’s our culture: Every project begins with a safety plan. This uncompromising safety leadership is how we consistently achieve a safety performance that places us in the top quartile of CII member companies from year to year. It’s a key reason our clients come back again and again.
Addressing Environmental Compliance Challenges
Environmental compliance goes hand in hand with refinery updates. We offer an integrated team that has experience evaluating and addressing regulatory issues of all types. We have in-house capabilities to help you address compliance challenges with Benzene Waste Operations National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), also known as BWON. Our team also includes technical specialists who can directly address your BWON challenges with potential solutions. We have experience helping refineries and chemical facilities address compliance challenges under confidentiality agreements and alternative compliance plans (ACPs).
Process Design and EPC Solutions
Our high-performance refining teams don’t provide textbook solutions. They solve problems with creative ideas that save you money. Our disciplined front-end work helps set up your project for success.
Our construction approach is flexible, supporting self-perform, direct-hire and multi-subcontractor methods. We deliver competitive pricing with high productivity — leading to reduced labor costs and on-schedule completion. Our experienced estimators, engineers, procurement professionals and construction managers provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services that deliver predictable results.
Strategic LP Modeling: Navigating a Dynamic Market
Navigating change that ranges from fluctuating crude slates and new product demands to shutdowns and new pipelines, refiners must adapt in order to maintain a competitive edge. Through 1898 & Co. — our business, technology and security consultancy — we develop custom strategic linear program (LP) models. These LP models are a high-level, adaptable tool for evaluating future scenarios and making informed investment decisions.
We begin by gaining an understanding of your feedstocks, constraints and configuration, then build a custom strategic model to test potential capital projects, from debottlenecking units to introducing new crude sources. By connecting these scenarios to high-quality capital cost estimates based on our EPC experience, we reveal a clear view of the potential economics, helping you maximize profitability and plan for implementation during scheduled turnarounds — years in advance.
