Whitepapers

Are your environmental programs compounding value or risk? Downstream facilities face complex air, water, waste, safety and reporting obligations while operating under tight regulatory and community scrutiny. Programs built only for compliance leave teams reacting to risk instead of getting ahead of it. Downstream operators need a more connected strategy that ties environmental performance to operational performance. The Environmental Strategy Maturity Curve provides a roadmap for making that change.

Flare gas monitoring is critical for maintaining regulatory compliance and ensuring safe, efficient refinery operations. This guide outlines key flare emission requirements, common monitoring challenges, and how real-time gas analysis can help operators improve visibility, support root cause analysis, and optimize process performance.

This snapshot provides a high-level view of active downstream construction projects across North America, based on Global Energy Infrastructure’s project dataset as of May 2026. The report summarizes 43 projects across 19 states and provinces, representing approximately $31.4 billion in active investment.

The snapshot highlights where reported construction investment is concentrated by geography and sector, with coverage of petrochemicals, biofuels, gas processing, and refining modernization. It also includes project-count and investment comparisons, selected major projects, and a brief view of how current construction activity aligns with selected industry themes, including energy transition, petrochemical capacity, and downstream infrastructure investment.

This white paper explores how heat exchanger design directly impacts fouling behaviour, cleaning effectiveness, and overall performance. It compares common exchanger types, cleaning methods, and maintenance strategies, highlighting the importance of aligning cleaning and inspection approaches with equipment design. By focusing on design-aware maintenance, the paper helps operators improve efficiency, extend asset life, and make more informed decisions to reduce energy loss and operational risk.

Global Energy Infrastructure's European Downstream Report covers 166 active projects representing $227.6 billion in capital commitment across refining, petrochemicals, biofuels, and gas processing. See where investment is concentrating and what the full European pipeline looks like.

Inadequate equipment selection can lead to unplanned downtime and lost profits for refiners. This is especially true when it comes to selecting fired heater air-preheaters, since the conventional tubular and plate type varietals are prone to single point failure and acid gas condensation risk.

This white paper explores how Econotherm’s heat pipe heat exchanger technology is transforming the fired heater air-preheating landscape. By offering refiners a robust solution with multiple redundancies, heat pipe heat exchangers ultimately increase the reliability of heat recovery loops, lower the total cost of ownership for the refiner, and enable incremental energy recovery.

This white paper explores how refiners and petrochemical operators can sustain reliability and efficiency as turnaround intervals extend. It highlights integrated, out-of-turnaround solutions that restore performance without shutdowns. Real-world case studies demonstrate measurable gains in efficiency, asset life, and uptime, helping plants reduce risk, protect margins, and operate continuously between major outages.

A major Canadian oil company producing steam-stripped ULSD faced production risk when conventional coalescers failed to remove dispersed water, leading to costly short-term mitigation measures. The refinery implemented Pall’s AquaSep^® coalescer technology, which consistently delivered clear and bright, on-spec diesel and maintained performance which helped ensure uninterrupted operations.