Plant turnaround solutions where equipment meets expertise
We partner with petrochemical and refining organizations throughout every stage of a turnaround, unlocking new ways to shorten schedules, reduce costs, and enhance safety.
When you need to shut down a single unit, an integrated block, or your entire facility, the stakes are high. Each day you’re offline translates to lost revenue and introduces a host of other challenges and risks. Supplying energy to contractors can drive up fuel costs, while maintaining a safe environment might necessitate temporary cooling or heating solutions. Additionally, slow, inefficient processes can lead to unnecessary delays and rising costs, making it crucial to have a reliable partner who can help streamline operations and minimize downtime.
At Aggreko, we have decades of experience working closely with midstream and downstream facilities for petrochemical and refinery turnarounds. Beyond providing dependable equipment for energy and temperature control, we draw from our extensive experience to proactively suggest improvement opportunities so you can:
- Plan for energy and other utilities earlier in the process
- Reduce necessary downtime and maintain schedules
- Track the performance, location, and activity of your rental utilities
- Accelerate reactor cooldown times to eliminate delays
- Avoid unnecessary costs associated with your plant turnaround
- Maximize safety throughout your environment
- Get temporary utilities that meet the highest environmental standards
- Review how your temporary utilities were utilized during the outage
Aggreko’s difference: Holistic turnaround services
We’re experts in petrochemical and refining turnarounds, ready to share our expertise, patented solutions, and strategic, data-driven approach throughout your planned event.
Leading equipment
Proven, dependable energy, temperature control, and compressors – all available with no CAPEX or long-term commitment.
One source of expertise
Get insights throughout the entire process, from planning to installation, management, and after-action reports.
In-house engineering
We’ll design a turnkey solution based on your plant and priorities, as well as recommending ways to streamline your turnaround.
Safety and sustainability
Partner with a responsible team that shares your commitments to safety and reducing emissions.
Knowledge across the petrochemical and refining spectrum
From maintenance jobs to process enhancement applications, our diverse expertise across petrochemical and refining means we’re a single partner for the temporary utilities that improve your key performance indicators.
Your go-to utility partner for turnaround scoping, planning, and delivery
- Maintain production during coker outages by using short-term cooling in place of a delayed coker unit (DCU). This enables you to decouple your crude and coker units while continuing operations throughout your plant turnaround.
- Cool reactors faster to reduce turnaround times, using our patented solution as an alternative to nitrogen. Our combination of pumps, chillers, and heat exchangers can reduce the catalyst-cooling step by as much as 50%, so you can resume operations faster.
- Decouple parts of your plant so you only need to take the units requiring maintenance offline. We can provide chillers, boilers, and other equipment to keep your refinery running.
- Eliminate generator power to reduce emissions and fuel costs, using specialized electrical distribution equipment to use existing grid energy wherever possible.
- Improve worker comfort and safety with temporary climate control for vessel entry. Our air conditioners and dehumidifiers can bring temperatures down and improve employee comfort, allowing people to work in hot, confined spaces for longer without experiencing heat-related stress.
- Get additional energy during plant turnarounds with our range of generators across a variety of fuel options. Our experts will design and deliver a turnkey rightsized solution that matches your turnaround, load requirements, and the nature of your maintenance.
- Speed up post-turnaround dry-out using oil-free air compressors that apply clean, cool air without introducing oil into your downstream equipment. Compared to nitrogen cooling, we can help you resume production faster.
Aggreko’s Greener Approach: Innovative solutions for sustainable turnarounds
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. Planned shutdowns, outages, and turnarounds can also be designed to keep emissions down.
Across our fleet, you’ll find a range of efficient, low-emissions equipment and features 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
Why do downstream oil & gas, and chemical organizations choose Aggreko
When owner-operators in the downstream oil & gas and chemical industries need strategic support to plan more efficient turnarounds, they turn to us.
Everything in one place
The unique variety of our fleet means we can provide all the utility equipment you need with one point of contact.
24/7 remote monitoring
With Aggreko’s Remote Monitoring service, we optimize the performance of your equipment throughout your turnaround.
After-action reports
We’ll help you understand what went well and how your overarching turnaround strategy can be improved.
Frequently Asked Questions
Any petrochemical and refinery turnaround comes with significant costs, from lost production time to the swarm of costly contractors descending on your site. Effective planning helps reduce costs by reducing how long the turnaround takes.
Costs can also be affected by inefficiencies in your processes. For example, nitrogen gas may be used to dry units before bringing them back online. This means ceasing work and evacuating the area before drying can begin. Using oil-free air compressors as an alternative, you can begin drying earlier, dry sections as maintenance is completed, and end your turnaround sooner.
Turnarounds create huge disruption for petrochemical and refining organizations, but they’re vital for maintaining safety and avoiding unplanned and emergency maintenance. With effective planning, turnarounds can strike the balance between timely maintenance and continuity, keeping your downtime to a minimum – both throughout your planned outage and for years to come.