Consulting, Studies & Audits

Decarbonization Support

Given the level of uncertainty we are facing today, to achieve GHG emission reduction objective and cope with market demand changes, Axens offers it’s DeCARBON'us™ service to develop short, medium and long-term solutions for asset decarbonization.

By identifying the most appropriate scenario, and performing technical and economic studies to reveal the full viability and added value of decarbonization solutions, DeCARBON'us™ covers a full universe of mature and innovative solutions for the decarbonization of industry.

Additional studies

Additional available studies are as follow:

• Market studies service
• Site Location Study
• Crude Management
• Pre-EIA (Environment impact assessment) study
• Infrastructure study

They have the advantage of offering a single point of contact to get a rapid comprehensive evaluation of your project.

Find out more in our dedicated Commercial Bulletins below:

Margin Improvement Programs

Since 2001, Axens Horizon is supporting clients in their margin improvement programs. Our mission is to support plant owner in capturing more margin through innovative project management, process optimization, operational excellence and digitalization. Our in-house multi-discipline team has all the relevant expertise required to help you capture more margin through:

• Crude management
• Energy Efficiency
• Zero Oil losses strategies
• Better planning & scheduling with state-of-the-art linear programming models
• Advanced Process Control and near real-time optimization
• Process unit operation optimization leveraging process licensing technology expertise
• Hydrogen management
• Processing Configuration expertise to maximize margin from better stream routing or integration with petrochemical

Crude Management

Changes in crude price, the surge of tight oil and technological advances in refining processes have reshaped the landscape, creating opportunities for refiners.

Crude selection plays an important role in the operator’s ability to adapt to highly fluctuating conditions such as political or environmental issues affecting crude opportunities. As a result, it is now imperative to regularly review crude sources and management strategies.

Axens’ services enable the operator to review the possibility of treating alternative crudes, to make the best choices for a sustainable and optimized supply chain strategy. Additionally, with Axens’ customized market surveys, the operator can optimize their assets in different crudes in order to meet future product specifications, serve core product markets and respond to new export opportunities.

Key advantages:

• An extensive crude knowledge based on years of pilots testing expertise on crudes from multiple sources
• A solid approach to crude compatibility that minimize risk while maximizing margin
• A long experience in conducting opportunity crudes market & technical studies for existing plants

Energy Efficiency audit & Water management audit

In a typical refinery, energy makes up more than 50% of non-feedstock operating cost, and every ton of fuel burnt represents 4 tons of CO2 emitted. Therefore, incentive for energy efficiency programs is high and is the primary driver for reduction of CO2 emissions. However, operational constraints and lack of visibility of energy index variations often make efforts to reduce energy consumption painful.

Axens’ methodology identifies energy savings without jeopardizing plant operability, using a top-down approach: entire site, process units, utilities generation, flue gas recovery, thermal equipment.

Linear Programming

Linear Programming (LP) is a key tool widely used to support planning decisions in refineries. However, to support risk‑based decisions, LP modeling needs to be accurate, reliable, stable, representative of asset operations, well-constructed and easy to maintain. Axens’ services will update, develop and optimize the operator's model with best practices recommendations for planning activities. Whatever the software used by the operator, the experience of LP experts combined with expertise in process technology ensures that they benefit from quality services

Key advantages:

• Dedicated team of Axens LP experts
• Access to all commercialy available linear programming software & platforms
• Crude database including a large list of assays covering all regions
• Associated training for site to take the maximum benefits from LP