Overview
Designed for versatility, our flexible refining solutions allow you to scale operations and adjust processes swiftly, ensuring you stay ahead in a dynamically evolving landscape with:
Feed Flexibility
- Maximize throughput
- Optimize opportunity crude processing
Process Flexibility
- Reduce process constraints
- Maintain efficient conversion between feedstocks
Output Flexibility
- Improve output value and capacity
As new discounted crude oils and feedstocks come on the market, your processing uncertainty has never been higher. Downstream Chemicals solutions from Baker Hughes help you navigate this uncertainty by giving you greater feedstock and processing flexibility.
As part of our Crude Oil Management™ solutions, our Downstream Chemicals technologies and application expertise help minimize processing risks while maximizing profitability in response to rapidly changing market needs.
Our Crude Oil Management approach was designed to help you optimize energy usage, reduce emissions, leverage renewable feedstocks, and manage water consumption and reuse.
Capture the full value of any feedstock
By leveraging our treatment chemistries and industry know-how, you can capture the incremental margin from purchasing advantaged crudes and processing a wide range of crude blends —all while keeping your operations compliant, reliable, and stable.
We help you expand your refinery’s crude feedstock diet and minimize lost profit opportunities by:
- Evaluating the optimal candidate feedstocks and blends through our cloud-based, intelligent crude evaluation and blending models
- Offering customized pretreatment programs/solutions and strategies to maximize the processing of advantaged (opportunity) crudes, fuel oil, and slop oil
- Protecting downstream processing equipment from contaminants such as metals, tramp amines, and other solids at the desalter
Adapt your processes for maximum production
When it comes to your refining processes, our Downstream Chemicals solutions help reduce process constraints so you can maximize the profit potential of your crude feed opportunities.
We leverage innovative process technologies, modeling tools, chemical monitoring, and root-cause analytical service programs to address operational red flags, including:
- Tank farm/crude storage issues
- Desalter challenges
- Equipment fouling and corrosion
- Heater coking
- Buildup of solids, asphaltenes, and waxes
- Slop generation and NESHAP fouling potential
Our flexible strategies also help you maximize utilization rates to capitalize on higher product margins. And real-time data analytics and insights from our fouling and blending models help you make informed decisions on operational changes or feedstock conversions ensuring optimal production with minimal downtime and maximum profit.
Drive greater production flexibility
Downstream Chemicals solutions also help you quickly adjust your production output to meet changing market demands. Our conversion management expertise, coupled with process monitoring tools and treatments, helps you mitigate processing risks to deliver optimal, highest-value product outcomes.
We help improve output value and throughput capacity with proven solutions like our FLO™ NOW instant drag reduction services and FLO™ ULTIMA heavy oil drag reducing agent. Our FLO technology optimizes refinery throughputs and brings more barrels of high-value product to market, more economically.
We also give you the flexibility to easily export your refined products and intermediates to changing global markets. Whether you’re shipping cargo to Latin America, Europe, Asia, or elsewhere, we offer a range of fuel additives to upgrade product quality and value by meeting the spec requirements of the final location and customer.
Contact your Baker Hughes representative to learn how we can help your refinery maximize its flexibility for the most profitable outcomes.
