Petroleum refining is a particular area of specialization for a select, devoted group of Enex consultants and engineers.  Our continuing programs of technology evaluations, data accumulation and industry cost evaluations improve our expertise and further our experience and maintain our status as a leading international business support and engineering company.

Enex completed a conceptual engineering and financial assessment program for a major new world scale refinery.  Enex was responsible for:

            Evaluations of market potentials

            Optimization of product slate to meet defined markets,

            Selection of refinery processes,

            Schedule A preparation / acceptance of major processes

            Capital and operating cost determinations

            Refinery offsites � utilities, storage, shipping facilities, etc.

            Environmental Impact Statement completion

            Project feasibility assessment

            Creation of plant computer model

            Creation of financial model

            Financial presentations and assistance in financing.

 

For the refined products optimization, selection and sizing of process units, Enex used and oversaw the services and refinery optimization model of UOP, a recognized leading world refinery technology supplier.

For the last decade, refining capacity in the USA has been limited to incremental expansions and process improvements.  During this time of �make-the-best-of-what-you-got�, Enex conducted major engineering, technology development/ definitions, and plant modification programs.  The programs were aimed at plant expansions, optimization of technology to gain better control of their product slate, to improve plant performance and to gain competitive advantage.  Specifically, Enex conducted �engineering for cost estimating� programs and defined the structure, costs and resulting economics for the varying technologies and competing plants.   Through such applied services, Enex has generated a strong understanding of the technical forces of the industry and ability to create an optimum design and factual representation of profit potentials. 

Enex has provided technical, investigative, conceptual engineering and project financial support services for refineries processing a singular or mixture of world available crude oils.  Enex has completed analyses of optimizing refined products and their world distribution in order to maximize the profitability of existing and new refinery projects.

Enex experienced refinery and infrastructure support specialists provide immediate and direct input and guidance to the optimum plant design, selection of operating processes, and product distribution for the maximum proper financial performance and operating stability.

 

 Refinery Process Optimization

Enex engineers and consultants have been used extensively as project managers to examine, verify and validate critical key components and issues of: 

Technology selections

Crude optimization

Product optimization

Refinery operating performance,  

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            Crude oil selection(s)

                        Technology requirements / implications

                        Flexibility of crude variations 

            Refinery � process configuration

                        Integrated process units - definitions

                        Mass and energy balances

                        Utility requirements and costs

                        Capital costs and expenditure schedule

                        Individual refinery unit(s) operating costs

                        Engineering for cost estimates � Capital & manufacturing costs 

 Offsite Facilities

            Overseeing of design

            Validation of capital costs

            Utility systems

            Validation of all fixed and operating costs           

                                Plant automation system

            Plot plans

            Buildings � Requirements & design

            Process design

Validation of design for maximum conservation of energy

Capital cost definitions

Total product production costs

 

OTHER REFINING RELATED PROGRAMS COMPLETED BY ENEX:

           C4 / C5 Olefins

Disposition investigations  - maximizing values

Technology investigations

Feasibility studies

 

Methanol        

World production

Competitive structures

Application studies

 

MTBE

Technology

Competitive structures

Propylene oxide / MTBE co-production evaluations

 

BTX

Recovery technology /economics / markets

Refinery streams

Pyrolysis gasolines

Demand & value forecasting

Multi-client study programs

Industry effects of gasoline reformulation

Alternate refining schemes

Avoidance of BTX production � gasoline pool balancing

Toluene Recovery / economics

Toluene hydrodealkylation

Para-xylene recovery / economics

          Bio-Fuels

                     Ethanol  -  Plant Design / Blend studies / Economics

                    Bio-diesel

                   Technology / Plant Design / Economics