Petroleum Refining

Petroleum refineries worldwide face rising challenges to increase capacity while tightening margins and increasing regulatory scrutiny. Although there are few new refineries brought online, there is tremendous pressure to increase capacity to meet greater demand. With many refining locations having close neighbors, and the enforcement spotlight shining brightly, EHS professionals at refineries face a tremendous challenge.

ESS has substantial experience in your industry, reflected in our products and solutions to help achieve operational excellence in EHS and assure your social license to operate.

Challenges & Solutions

	Industry Challenge	ESS Solution
	Operational Excellence. Operational excellence is all about documenting what you need to do and assuring it is completed, efficiently and on-time. Following the BP Texas City incident and the Baker Report, OSHA's Petroleum Refinery Process Safety Management National Emphasis Program is putting ever-escalating pressure on achieving strong, consistent EHS results.	Environmental Compliance and Health & Safety
	Environmental Compliance. Petroleum refineries are among the most-regulated facilities, wherever you go in the world. Acres of complex, and often aging, infrastructure make it extremely challenging for site environmental professionals to determine and document applicable requirements, and then track compliance with those requirements. Furthermore, compliance demonstration is often data-intensive, requiring integration with plant process systems and performing extensive calculations. Much of the documentation and validation of compliance can be automated with a robust IT solution.	Environmental Compliance
	Emergency Planning and Response. Despite your best efforts, bad things can happen. Minimizing the impacts of a crisis event is critical, and this is best done by bringing your overall crisis management program together - including your compliance with recent U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) or the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) - under one umbrella with our application.	Crisis Management
	Global Climate Change. Refining processes are energy intensive, and as a result of their fossil fuel consumption (and creation), refineries are increasingly subject to climate change regulation. The challenge is to optimize plant operations, today and in the future, to conform with regulatory requirements as cost effectively as possible. This includes the need to do "what if" analysis on the impact of planned site modifications, against the backdrop of growing public scrutiny and relentless competitive pressure.	GHG/Carbon Management
	Leak Detection and Repair. Your Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) program helps optimize refinery operations by keeping valuable product in the process, and minimizing release to the atmosphere. There are also important regulatory drivers and management system implications for LDAR, and it feeds into your overall air emission inventory and multi-media release reporting. Implementing an IT solution that streamlines the collection, administration and reporting of fugitive emission monitoring data, allowing organizations to maximize cost savings while minimizing risks of environmental non-compliance.	Fugitive Emissions

Industry Drivers

	Compliance	Business
	Federal Environmental Agencies (e.g., US EPA, Environment Canada, European Commission DG) Multi-Media Pollutant Release and Discharge Reporting (e.g., US FormR, EU PRTR, Canadian NPRI, Australian NPI) Regional Regulation of Global Climate Change (e.g., EU ETS, CA AB32, Alberta Bill 3) Air Emission Regulations (e.g., US CAA Title V, US CAA HON) Hazardous Waste Regulations (e.g., US RCRA characteristic hazardous wastes) Surface Water Discharge Regulations (e.g., US NPDES point source and stormwater regulations) Voluntary Reporting Guidelines (e.g., API, IPIECA, GRI)	Increasing Output Demand Decreasing Margins Aging Facility Infrastructure

Selected Clients

	Client	Description
	ConocoPhillips	Identified as one of the six "supermajor" (six largest, non state-owned energy companies) vertically integrated oil companies, they employ approximately 32,600 people worldwide in nearly 40 countries. ConocoPhillips operates 19 refineries around the world. Customer since 2003.
	Sunoco	A top Fortune 100 company, it is the largest company based in Philadelphia and the 2nd largest in Pennsylvania. Sunoco was one of two oil companies named as “most environmentally responsible” in the latest version of the Sierra Club's Updated Environmentalist's Guide to Gasoline. They are also the only oil company to sign the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) principal. Customer since 1996.
	Valero Energy Corporation	A top global 50 company, Valero owns and operates 17 refineries throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. They are one of the largest retail operators with more than 5,000 retail and branded wholesale outlets and the largest refiner in North America. Customer since 2000.