Petroleum Refining Industry

Petroleum refineries consist of a complex interconnected set of processing units. No two refineries are exactly the same due to the historical development of each refinery, given its crude oil inputs and product outputs. The majority of refinery sectors’ CO2 emissions are from five large energy-consuming processes (hydrocracking, atmospheric distillation, catalytic cracking, steam methane reforming, and regenerative catalytic reforming).

Global Efficiency Intelligence has conducted several studies on decarbonizing the refinery sector globally. Some of our related publications are listed below.

Our Refinery industry-related publications:

  1. Morrow, William R., John Marano, Jayant A. Sathaye, Ali Hasanbeigi, and Tengfang T. Xu. 2013. Assessment of Energy Efficiency Improvement in the United States Petroleum Refining Industry. Berkeley: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. LBNL-6292E

  2. Cresko, Joe; Rightor, Ed; Hasanbeigi, Ali; et al. (2022). US Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap. US Department of Energy.

  3. Cresko, Joe; Hasanbeigi, Ali; et al. (2022). Thermal Process Intensification in Industry. US Department of Energy.

  4. Morrow, William; Marano, John; Hasanbeigi, Ali; Masanet, Eric; Sathaye, Jayant; (2015). Efficiency Improvement and CO2 Emission Reduction Potentials in the United States Petroleum Refining Industry. Energy 93 (2015) 95-105.

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