Refining revamps
Modernise your refinery with a low-capex, high-impact revamps project. Explore recent projects and our refining revamps capabilities.
Gain access to industry-leading refining revamps expertise
Considering revamping or upgrading your existing assets? With a low-capital revamp, you can respond dynamically to market challenges while protecting your competitive advantage. Work with us to co-create revamp solutions that can help improve operations and increase ROI.
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Gain insight on specific revamp solutions. Each refinery revamp scenario contains several business case studies, technology analysis and insights into future impact.
Discover how you can increase margins with a reactor internals revamp
How to address the risk of fouling and performance constraint
Shell’s latest-generation reactor internals provide one of the most compelling response options for refiners exploring processing lower-cost crudes or more severe feedstocks.
A revamp of your reactor internals can help you:
- prevent fouling
- increase catalyst volume and utilisation
- earn a very quick profit for relatively low capital expenditure
Reactor internals revamps scenario
Discover how low capital expenditure, high-impact reactor internals can increase margins cost-effectively.
Read the reactor internals revamp scenario to find out how a reactor internals revamp can deliver high returns.
Adapt assets so you can exploit the inherent flexibility of a hydrocracker
Hydrocracker revamp scenario
Learn how to exploit the inherent flexibility of a hydrocracker to meet the demands of changing market conditions.
Explore the hydrocracker revamp scenario to find out how to optimise your refinery with a hydrocracker revamp.
A vacuum distillation unit (VDU) revamp can generate substantial value
VDU revamps can be a low-cost way to unlock downstream assets
With a VDU revamp, the capital cost is usually relatively low and payback times are typically a year or less.
Revamping VDU units using Shell’s deep-flash, high-vacuum technology can offer refiners a major margin-improvement opportunity.
Vacuum distillation unit (VDU) revamp scenarios
Unlock downstream assets by increasing VDU fractionation performance with Shell deep-flash technology.
Read the vacuum distillation revamp scenario to find out how this revamp technology can:
- Increase vacuum gas oil yield
- Enhance unit throughput and improve unit reliability
- Ensure that contaminant levels remain within the conversion units’ acceptability limits
Revamping your diesel hydrotreater can bring strong financial ROI
Diesel hydrotreater revamp scenario
Discover how to enhance margins of distillate units by improving rate and operating severity. In the diesel hydrotreating revamp scenario, explore solutions that can help refiners to:
- Meet increasingly stringent emission regulations
- Generate high-value winter diesel
- Generate renewable diesel (biofuels)
Help reduce CAPEX with ethylene oxide (EO) revamps
Ethylene oxide (EO) revamp scenarios
Push the limits of selectivity and reduce capital expenditures with market-leading ethylene oxide manufacturing technology.
Explore how you can reduce energy and production costs, change the product mix and increase work rate in this EO revamp scenario.
Helping you meet economic ambitions with fluidised catalytic cracking (FCC) units revamps
Take an integrated approach to your FCC units
This is even more important in today’s environment when yield shift flexibility and low-cost operations can be key to competitiveness.
Refiners could consider revamping FCC-PT and FCC units to:
- Process more-difficult, low-value feeds
- Increase petrochemical yields
- Optimise on-stream days for better turnaround alignment
FCC-PT and FCC unit revamp scenario
Capture the full potential and increase margins through the strategic integration of FCC-PT and FCC units.
Helping operators performance constraint issues with base oil revamps
Base oils revamp scenario
Discover how to increase feed rate cost effectively, process more difficult and heavier feeds, and maximise product quality.
Explore the lubricant base oils revamp scenario to find out how:
- SRS Salzbergen achieved high performance in its base oils unit
- Hyundai Oilbank ensured its new base oil plant delivered the right product quality
- A US-based company maximised production of high-quality base oils.
You can unlock next-level performance with an HVO revamp
Hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) unit revamp scenario
Find out how Shell Catalysts and Technologies can help you unlock next-level performance from your HVO unit.
Explore the HVO unit revamp scenario to find out how Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam is producing lower-carbon fuels.