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Make Every Refinery Your Best Refinery

Maximize productivity and improve margins with Ecolab as your trusted partner for end-to-end systems, solutions and digital insights in your refineries around the world.

What if you knew
which of your refineries
was your best?

What if you knew
the potential value of all
your refineries operating
like your best refinery?

And, what if there were a 
partner that could deliver
and implement across
your organization?

With Ecolab as your partner, improve throughput, reliability, and margins across your refinery

Refinery performance is driven by how effectively you control fouling, corrosion, and desalting. Fouling reduces heat transfer and increases energy consumption, corrosion drives unplanned shutdowns and safety risks, and poor desalting performance accelerates downstream process problems and inefficiencies.

Ecolab helps you manage these critical challenges with integrated chemistry, equipment, and digital monitoring—supported by on-site expertise—to extend run length, reduce energy costs and maximize production efficiency across your entire refinery.

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Delivering Best-in-Class refinery performance.

Target the operational variables that matter most—throughput, energy utilization, reliability, and compliance—and convert operational performance improvements into measurable value across your operation.

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Business Outcomes

Helping you achieve your business goals with increased margin per barrel, reduced unplanned downtime and maintenance costs and improved safety performance across critical operations.

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Operational Performance

Enabling smoother, more efficient operations with extended run length, improved throughput, lower energy consumption, improved process stability and enhanced regulatory compliance.

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Environmental Impact

Helping you reach your sustainability goals and maintain efficient operations with reduced emissions, lower water usage and optimized desalting performance, reduced waste and improved resource efficiency.

Improved business outcomes, operations and environmental impact can lead to huge value.

Realize the full value potential of best-in-class operations by leveraging the highest impact solutions for your enterprise:

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Crude Unit Overhead Corrosion Control

3D TRASAR™ Technology for Crude Overhead Systems combines automated analysis, innovative chemistries and predictive software to proactively manage corrosion and salt deposition. The result is more stable operations, reduced unplanned downtime, extended asset life and lower total operating risk.  

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RESOLV™ Desalter Technology

The RESOLV program helps produce steady-state desalter operations by combining mechanical, operational and chemical solutions. With an optimized desalter operation, take advantage of lower cost “opportunity” crudes without sacrificing performance.  

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THERMOGAIN™ Program

The THERMOGAIN™ program combines advanced chemistry, crude stability testing and heat transfer modeling to address exchanger and furnace fouling at its root to help reduce energy use, minimize maintenance costs and optimize throughput rates.

Delivering solutions for your entire global operation.

Even more offerings make up our best-in-class portfolio for refineries:

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Ecolab® FeedflexIQ™

FeedFlexIQ is a digital technology that delivers near real time, on-site insights into crude oil compatibility, helping leaders accelerate decision making, reduce operational risk and protect reliability. 

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Tank Level Monitoring IQ™

Ecolab Tank Level Monitoring IQ uses advanced radar technology and cellular communication devices to deliver accurate, continuous tank level data, helping optimize asset utilization, chemical usage and pump performance. 

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SCORPION™ High Temp Corrosion Control Program

The SCORPION Program helps refineries utilize discounted, high‑acid crude slates without compromising asset integrity, helping reduce the likelihood of unplanned outages and improve margin flexibility. 

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Ecolab® Heat Exchanger IQ™

Heat Exchanger IQ is a comprehensive program that combines in-depth system audits, 24/7 monitoring, unique diagnostic tools, and consultative services to help optimize heat transfer and improve reliability. 

Your trusted partner for improved refinery operations.

See how our programs and innovations have helped our partners reduce costs, mitigate risk and maximize profitability.

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South Korean Refinery Saves $4 Million Using THERMOGAIN™ Crude Unit Antifoulant Program

The THERMOGAIN™ program delivered measurable business and sustainability impact to a refinery partner by reducing crude unit fouling and improving heat transfer efficiency. 

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Refiner Realizes over $59 Million in Increased Profits with SCORPION™ Program

The Scorpion™ High‑Acid Crude Program helped our refinery partner to safely expand feedstock flexibility, protect critical assets, and significantly improve refining margins.

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Refinery Solves Long Term Corrosion Problem by Deploying 3D TRASAR™ Technology for Crude Overhead Systems

3D TRASAR™ Technology for Crude Overhead Systems enabled a refinery to identify and control the true drivers of long‑term corrosion that traditional programs could not address.

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RESOLV™ Contaminant Removal Program Saves Refinery >$15M in TCO

A refinery partner used the RESOLV™ Contaminant Removal Program to reliably process discounted, high‑calcium crude while maintaining stable desalter and downstream operations.

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Learn the value of best-in-class refinery operations and discover your full potential with Ecolab as your partner.

To learn more about how Ecolab’s offerings can help your refinery improve business outcomes, operational performance and environmental impact, please complete this form. With Ecolab, you can: 

  • Lower emissions, waste and water use
  • Maximize production efficiency
  • Reduce unplanned downtime

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