Competitive pressure is driving oil refiners to minimize operating costs as they struggle to meet new and increasingly stringent product specifications. Additionally, the pressure for longer run lengths and higher utilization is increasing emphasis on safety and environmental responsibility. Companies also want their refineries ready to move into specialty product niches and/or respond to evolving market opportunities. Because of product and market pressure, refiners need an objective measure of their ability to be competitive in terms of feedstock, costs, energy consumption, product yields, maintenance expenses, staffing levels, and reliability.

Comparative Performance Analysis
Benchmarking performance is one strategy that all refiners need to include in their portfolio of tools for sustaining profits. By comparing your performance with your peers, and measuring your company against the best in the industry, we can show you how well you are doing across a broad range of key indicators, such as gross margin. Knowing your current competitive position allows you to optimize operating and maintenance costs, identify the gaps in your performance, and concentrate your improvement efforts in the areas that will yield the most benefit for your plant.

Solomon's Comparative Performance Analysis (CPA) provides benchmarks for more than just fuels and lubes refining. CPAs are also available for reliability and maintenance and for specific unit performance, such as a fluid catalytic cracker. If you need to integrate the benchmarks for your assets over your entire supply chain, we offer CPAs for pipelines, petrochemicals, and power generation.

To help you manage your improvement efforts, we offer SA Profile – a continuous monitoring system designed to provide you with monthly updates. Details of Solomon’s Refining CPAs can be downloaded through the links at left.

Profit Improvement Consulting
To help you realize your potential, Solomon has developed consulting services that use your data to focus on improving those areas that have greatest effect on your profits. Our Pacesetter Performance Process^® is a holistic and comprehensive approach that helps you address the technical issues needed to affect improvement and the management issues needed to sustain improvement. More focussed programs are available for particular areas of a refinery's operation, such as Oil Loss, Energy Management, Refinery Business Optimization, or Reliability and Maintenance. Click on the links at left to download information on these specific improvement programs.

To request additional information about these and other services from Solomon, please fill out the Contact Form