Here’s the key to success in the petroleum industry: get the maximum possible yield from every barrel of crude oil. One of the essential stages of the refining process is distillation. During this process, crude oil is separated into basic components. However, the real engines of profit in a petroleum refinery today are the catalytic cracking units. These units are crucial to breaking down cheaper, heavy oils to produce higher-value products such as petrol and other light fuels.

As worldwide fuel requirements become stricter, and with crude oil becoming more and more difficult to refine, fuel refineries are having to invest more and more in overhauling more complex, heavier products into cleaner and more profitable end-products.

While diesel fuel and gasoline come from the same source—crude oil—they are processed at a refinery in very different ways. These differences impact everything from the environmental performance of diesel and petrol and fuel prices to refinery margins and even the long-term energy policy of a country.

Considering the naphtha hydrotreating unit’s role within the hydrotreating system, the unit’s profitability is more important than ever, with the naphtha hydrotreating unit’s profitability being driven by the other refinery units. Given the advancements made in designed equipment, reactors, and control systems, one variable continues to influence hydrotreating the most… the catalyst.

Petroleum refining is a complicated set of single chemical and physical steps of turning crude oil into useable products starting from a wellhead. One of the more important and useful steps of the oil refining process is called dewaxing.

Lubricants consist of base oils, which usually take around 70% to 95% of the product finish. These base oils determine how well the lubricant performs, its stability, and how long it will last.