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Outsourcing can lower the cost of hydrogen, carbon monoxide
or syngas ("HyCO") to the refining or petrochemical industries.
It is a core product to an industrial gas company strategically
focused on HyCO. Our skills and expertise are geared towards producing
HyCO products in the most cost effective and reliable manner. Our
affiliates own and operate 35 steam reformers and partial oxidation
units around the world, located in areas of high refinery and petrochemical
activity such as: Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Texas and Louisiana,
US Gulf coast; Los Angeles Basin, California.
Utilizing this continuous operating experience, the industrial
gas supplier brings advantages in HyCO supply not normally available
to the typical refiner or chemicals producer. Feedback and bench-marking
from its own HyCO plants allows continuous improvements to be made
both in initial design and in on-going optimisation, offering significant
cost savings. Further cost reductions are possible by linking HyCO
consumers together through a pipeline supply network with multiple
plant capability.
With large capital investment expected to be required - especially
in refining in the near to mid-term and with refining margins not
expected to be supportive of such investment - out-sourced HyCO
supply offers an effective way to minimise costs. Perhaps more significantly
in today's climate, it releases capital for other investment opportunities
aimed at improving the refinery margin. |
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