Refining Solutions Overview
Tailored solutions that improve safety and maximize refinery output
Refining facilities face increasing demands to operate safely, sustainably, and efficiently. Our solutions combine advanced process control, safety instrumented systems, and data analytics to help refineries optimize throughput, reduce emissions, and comply with regulatory standards — all while maintaining operational continuity.
Refining Solutions in Action
Our refining solutions portfolio addresses critical challenges such as emergency shutdown, pressure relief optimization, and alarm management. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies, refineries can enhance process reliability, prevent unplanned downtime, and meet stringent safety requirements.
Digital Isolation
Engineered for fast, fail-safe isolation of critical process segments to protect personnel and equipment in refinery operations.
Solution-Related Documents for Refining
Access a curated collection of resources designed to help you optimize refining operations, enhance process safety, and drive greater efficiency. From innovative technologies to proven best practices, these documents provide actionable insights to support reliability, compliance, and operational excellence across the refining value chain.
Business Groups in Refining
Refining success requires the integration of multiple disciplines. Our business groups bring specialized expertise to provide automation, control, measurement, and testing solutions that collectively enhance refinery performance and safety.
Automation Systems
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Explore essential information about refining operations, process safety, instrumentation, and control technologies. These FAQs address typical concerns and help clarify key concepts related to downstream hydrocarbon processing.
Refineries must manage safety risks, optimize throughput, maintain equipment reliability, and comply with stringent environmental regulations.
Process safety systems prevent accidents, reduce unplanned downtime, and protect people and assets, enabling smoother, more reliable operations.
Emergency shutdown valves (ESD Valves™), control systems, and safety instrumented systems (SIS) work together to safely isolate process segments in emergency situations.
SIS are engineered control systems designed to prevent hazardous events by automatically taking corrective actions when abnormal conditions are detected.
Digital tools enable data-driven decision making, predictive maintenance, and enhanced process optimization, improving operational resilience.
Automation systems provide real-time control, predictive analytics, and integration across refinery units to enhance efficiency and safety.