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Licensed technologies overview
Refiners are facing a dynamic business environment. Crude prices are volatile. Heavy, high-sulphur and acidic opportunity crudes are increasingly available. Demand for lighter products is high, and product legislation and emissions standards are tightening. And health, safety and environment mandates also have to be met.
Although changes can constitute business threats, they can also be taken as opportunities. We use tools such as scenario planning and masterplanning to help take a view of the future market and to enable more robust decision making regarding location, feedstock, logistics and hardware requirements.
Cutting-edge licensed technologies are being leveraged to introduce new hardware into refineries. These technologies are raising refinery capacities beyond the original design levels and helping refiners to take advantage of opportunity crudes and enabling their products to meet stringent specifications.