Next-Level Flexible Hydrocracking
The refining sector continues to experience increasing headwinds related to:
- Slowing demand for traditional hydrocarbon fuel products
- Increased competition from newly added refining capacity in Asia and the Middle East
- Macroeconomic shifts, signaling an uncertain future
Several large facilities have taken flexibility to the next level and enhanced their hydrocracker's contribution to the overall refinery margin through:
- Adapting units to handle extreme feeds
- Leveraging integrated line-up configuration to maximize the amount of VGO supplied by the VDU to the hydrocracker
- Ideate and execute new operating strategies to capture opportunities in petrochemicals or base oils