Overview
Designed for efficiency and reliability, our refining technologies minimize downtime and operational costs, driving significant improvements to your bottom line while maximizing output and quality in these areas:
Asset Reliability
- Employ a holistic approach across plant silos
- Lower CAPEX
- Reduce fouling, manage corrosion management, and simplify maintenance
Streamlined Operations
- Improve fuel quality through expertise and fullstream knowledge
- Quickly identify root causes/solutions to plant issues
Cost-Effective, Fit-for- Purpose Solutions
- Customize treatment solutions
- Access intelligent chemistry
- Lower OPEX
Baker Hughes downstream chemical solutions and application expertise help you maximize the business opportunity and profit potential of even the most challenging crudes.
We’re at the forefront of Crude Oil Management™, which addresses challenges across your plant’s organizational silos. We’ll work with all teams in your refinery—including engineering, operations, economics/business planning, and leadership teams to identify opportunities to implement effective, profitable solutions.
Protecting assets for reliable performance
Our experts will help you implement treatment programs to ensure efficient, reliable, long-term performance from your assets. Treatment solutions include desalter/demulsification operations, fouling control programs, corrosion mitigation services, cooling and boiler water treatments, and fuel additive solutions.
Your processing challenges don’t always require just a chemical solution. Our Crude Oil Management program examines your equipment and process operations to ensure they align with best practices and our experiential learnings as a market leader in process chemical additives. Not only will we recommend the best chemical program, we’ll also examine and recommend operational and equipment changes designed to bring you maximum impact, and the best return-on-investment.
You’ll gain further efficiency and cost-savings with our automation and predictive maintenance solutions, which optimize maintenance cycles, increase equipment operating time, and reduce unplanned shutdowns—all while lowering your CAPEX and OPEX while enhancing plant performance and profitability.
Generating value across your entire operation
Good data and actionable intelligence are critical to a profitable operation. We are the only service provider to consistently gather details of your crude feedstocks before they reach your refinery. By engaging upstream teams in the field and midstream teams at the pipeline, we help identify and mitigate potential refinery issues early.
In the refinery, our onsite experts take this upstream information to develop solutions that reduce processing constraints for any crude feed, even contaminant-laden crudes.
Our proactive solutions-based approach was designed with a refinery’s performance and profitability in mind. Marathon Petroleum named us its Supplier of the Year in 2021 thanks to our profit-maximizing solutions.
Implementing fit-for-purpose solutions
Your processing challenges require customized solutions, not one-size-fits-all approaches. We work with you to understand your specific process needs and leverage our experiential knowledge and data analytics to implement targeted intelligent chemistry solutions.
Our customized solutions also extend to renewable feedstock pretreatments. For more than thirty years, we’ve developed pretreatment strategies to help ensure that biomass feedstocks are free of metals and other impurities before they reach the biorefinery. Our pretreatment insights can help reduce fouling risks and extend catalyst life, improving your plant’s uptime and profitability.
Contact your Baker Hughes representative to learn how our comprehensive crude oil management strategies can help you maximize the performance and profitability of your downstream operations.