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Petrochemical and Refining: Services & Utilities

Creative, impactful solutions for your processing challenges

We partner with petrochemical and refining companies to maintain production rates, increase reliability, and minimize risks with turnkey solutions.

From routine maintenance to major projects including shutdowns and turnarounds, the petrochemical and refining industry needs support to stay online, efficient, and performing at the highest levels. The nature of this support varies between different plants, processes, and maintenance schedules.

At Aggreko, we’re specialists in turnkey energy, heating, cooling, and oil-free compressed air solutions for plants and refineries, supported by dedicated process engineers to optimize efficiency and cost. With no CAPEX required and flexible, rapidly deployed equipment, we’ll provide you with a tailored equipment rental that allows you to:

  • Respond fast to unplanned shutdowns and emergencies
  • Reduce costs and eliminate bottlenecks through process enhancement
  • Keep your plant running at peak performance
  • Increase your agility and ability to scale with temporary equipment
  • Keep major projects on schedule, including turnarounds
  • Drive the highest levels of safety and sustainability

Aggreko’s difference: Everyday equipment meets specialist process expertise

We become proactive partners for every process and maintenance challenge you face – from keeping production flowing to managing seasonal risks.

Dedicated engineers

Trust our in-house process engineering team to resolve bottlenecks or seasonal issues with temperature and pressure.

Faster Response

In an emergency, we can design and deliver your energy, compressed air, or temperature control solution in days, not weeks.

Beyond delivery

With Aggreko Remote Monitoring and our Remote Operations Center, we’ll continually monitor and optimize performance.

Integrated sustainability

We integrate energy control into processes through data analytics, supporting your energy transition.

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Knowledge across the petrochemical and refining spectrum

From refining and petrochemical plant maintenance to process enhancement projects, our diverse expertise across petrochemical and refining means we’re a single partner for everything you need.

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Solving key challenges in petrochemicals and refining

  • Respond to unplanned or planned outages with temporary generators, heating, cooling systems, and 100% oil-free compressed air. Even at short notice, we’ll deploy a rightsized solution to match your plant and process needs.
  • Reduce your environmental impact by reducing flaring and adopting alternative fuels for your petrochemical energy solutions. Our refinery-grade equipment and unmatched expertise can enable significant reductions in emissions.
  • Scale vital utilities including supplemental cooling using heat exchangers through warm summer months. We routinely support plants with ways to control process temperatures, quench water temperatures, and wastewater temperatures in line with regulatory requirements.
  • Achieve better flow rates and pressures across a wide range of units including fractionators, fluid catalytic cracking units, cokers, and alkylation units. Our solutions include heat exchangers, chillers, cooling towers, and other industrial cooling systems rental to increase your control. Our Hastelloy-C heat exchangers offer superior resistance to corrosive chemicals, broad operating temperatures, and are appropriate for high-pressure applications.
  • Prolong equipment lifespans with solutions to optimize flow rates and reduce vibrations in units like cracked gas compressors.
  • Boost revenues and profits with expert help to figure out ways to enhance your processes and adopt more efficient ways of working. We’ll make it easy to resolve bottlenecks, improve production, overcome capital challenges, and achieve a significant return on your investment.

Aggreko’s petrochemical plant equipment

When it comes to petrochemical downstream and refining operations, we’re more than a supplier —we’re your long-term partner

Aggreko’s Greener Approach: Lowering emissions across your petrochemical refinery

To offset high exhaust emissions and utility consumption, the petrochemical and refining sector is already making strong progress on the journey to a more sustainable future.

Working with us, you get a partner that shares your commitment to sustainability and lowering emissions. Our Greener Upgrades initiative is our constant investment in new technologies and services that improve efficiency and lower costs, including:

  • Tier 4 Final generators with efficient engines and lower emissions.
  • Battery energy storage systems (BESS) to increase flexibility and reduce generator runtime.
  • End-to-end engineered electrical distribution solutions that use existing grid energy to completely eliminate emissions and generators.
  • Alternative fuels including gas and biofuels.
  • Expert rightsizing and remote monitoring with energy management software.

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Why do downstream oil & gas facilities choose Aggreko?

When the petrochemicals and refining sector needs a partner with expertise across every aspect of a functioning plant, they turn to us.

Turnkey solutions

From initial assessment to monitoring and after-action reports, everything is designed around your plant and unique requirements.

24/7 remote monitoring

With Aggreko’s Remote Monitoring service, we optimize the performance of all the equipment we provide.

Fuel flexibility

Our vast fleet supports a wide range of fuel options, helping you manage fuel costs and emissions effectively.

Reduced risk

As a strong, well-funded company, we can reduce the commercial risk of even the biggest, most complex projects.

Process enhancement

Our Aggreko Process Services (APS) team can proactively suggest risk-reducing strategies like decoupling parts of your plant.

The trusted partner

Working with Aggreko is working with an industry leader with over 50 years’ experience in 80+ countries.

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FAQs about Aggreko’s petrochemical and refining solutions

At Aggreko, we’re in the business of helping the petrochemical and refining industry maintain production rates and increase reliability while minimizing safety risks and emissions. As specialists in heating, cooling, compressed air, and temporary energy solutions for refinery and petrochemical plants, we bring the advantage of dependable, efficient technology and deep insight into your applications.

Our main areas of work with the industry include:

  • Routine maintenance to increase continuity while reducing costs
  • Risk management to remove common risks to safety and productivity
  • Turnaround management services, including refinery shutdown solutions that help ensure shutdowns happen on schedule and on budget
  • Energy projects to increase agility and reduce emissions
  • Process enhancement to resolve bottlenecks, address seasonal limitations, and seize your windows of opportunity

Safety is a key concern throughout the petrochemical and refining sector – and something we take seriously.

Across every project we embed a commitment to health and safety, tracking leading and lagging factors and constantly measuring and improving how we work. We also enable petrochemical and refining organizations to drive safety standards throughout a plant, from essential cooling for hot working environments to close monitoring of all our equipment, 24/7.