How does Aggreko help petrochemical refinery customers?

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

Petrochemical & oil refining: power, cooling & risk management

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.

Contact our team of experts

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: innovative equipment matched with specialty expertise to fit your unique needs

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.

Knowledge across the petrochemical and refining spectrum

From refining and petrochemical plant maintenance to process enhancement projects with our Aggreko Process Services and Aggreko's contractor services, our diverse expertise across petrochemical and refining means we’re a single partner for everything you need.

Contact our petrochemical and refining specialists

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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.

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

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Aggreko’s engineered approach: improving efficiency while reducing cost, risk, and emissions

When you work with Aggreko, you gain a partner focused on delivering practical, engineered solutions that improve operational efficiency while minimizing environmental impact and total cost of ownership. Through continued investment in advanced equipment and integrated energy solutions, we help customers reduce fuel consumption, optimize performance, and lower emissions, without compromising reliability.

Our approach includes:

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) that increase operational flexibility and significantly reduce generator runtime
Generators with high-efficiency engines designed to reduce fuel use and emissions
Engineered electrical distribution solutions that leverage existing grid power to minimize on-site generation and local emissions
Alternative fuel options, including natural gas and biofuels, to support lower-carbon operations
Expert rightsizing and Aggreko Remote Monitoring, enabled by advanced energy management software to optimize load and efficiency in real time

Let's optimize your operation

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.

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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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Turnaround project foresight: What you need to know to be prepared

View of a petrochemical plant during sunset.

How can refineries utilize power more efficiently during turnarounds?

View of a petrochemical refinery plant at night.

How can a compressor help reduce in-plant emissions?

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Frequently asked questions

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.

Petrochemical & oil refining: power, cooling & risk management

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

Aggreko's difference: innovative equipment matched with specialty expertise to fit your unique needs

Knowledge across the petrochemical and refining spectrum

Deliver reliability across every process with our refining expertise

Routine maintenance

Turnarounds

Risk management

Process enhancement

Aggreko Process Services (APS)

Aggreko contractor services

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Solving key challenges in petrochemicals and refining

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Aggreko's engineered petrochemical & refinery solutions

Power

Heat exchangers

Cooling

Heaters

Oil free air compressors

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

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Aggreko’s engineered approach: improving efficiency while reducing cost, risk, and emissions

Why do downstream oil & gas facilities choose Aggreko?

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A wider range of industrial heat exchangers

5100 sqft large node heat exchanger

5700 sqft large node heat exchanger

1500 sqft Hastelloy-C cross-flow heat exchanger

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Read about our success stories in North America

Air compressors speed PCR plant turnaround

Replacing diesel with battery power delivers cheaper and more environmentally friendly energy during turnarounds

Eliminating diesel generators at a Texas oil refinery

Low-emission turnaround using tier 4 final

Flareless decontamination reduces emissions

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Want to know more?

Turnaround project foresight: What you need to know to be prepared

How can refineries utilize power more efficiently during turnarounds?

How can a compressor help reduce in-plant emissions?

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Frequently asked questions

How does Aggreko help petrochemical refinery customers?

How does Aggreko support refinery plant safety?

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Deliver reliability across every process with our refining expertise

Routine maintenance

Turnarounds

Risk management

Process enhancement

Aggreko Process Services (APS)

Aggreko contractor services

Solving key challenges in petrochemicals and refining

Aggreko's engineered petrochemical & refinery solutions

Power

Heat exchangers

Cooling

Heaters

Oil free air compressors

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

Aggreko’s engineered approach: improving efficiency while reducing cost, risk, and emissions

Why do downstream oil & gas facilities choose Aggreko?

A wider range of industrial heat exchangers

5100 sqft large node heat exchanger

5700 sqft large node heat exchanger

1500 sqft Hastelloy-C cross-flow heat exchanger

Read about our success stories in North America

Air compressors speed PCR plant turnaround

Replacing diesel with battery power delivers cheaper and more environmentally friendly energy during turnarounds

Eliminating diesel generators at a Texas oil refinery

Low-emission turnaround using tier 4 final

Flareless decontamination reduces emissions

Want to know more?

Turnaround project foresight: What you need to know to be prepared

How can refineries utilize power more efficiently during turnarounds?

How can a compressor help reduce in-plant emissions?

Frequently asked questions