Maximize Refinery Production & Compress Outages with AI
When every operating day counts more than ever, ensure your operations are able to take advantage of high-margin opportunities and build tomorrow’s operational excellence.
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Key refining use cases
Connect and contextualize existing IT, OT, and engineering data to optimize production, troubleshoot faster, improve reliability, streamline field work, accelerate TAR, and more with Cognite.
Production optimization & dynamic rate management
Operators can continuously adjust yields to capitalize on market opportunities—like diesel price spikes—and capture peak margins on active units.
Optimize production: Run production units safely at maximum efficiency with better continuous monitoring
Real-time yield adjustment: Leverage data-driven insights to fine-tune process control and align production to live market demand
Capture more margin: Drive performance improvements directly through optimized throughput and yield management
Troubleshooting & immediate problem solving
Equip engineering and operations teams with real-time surveillance and contextualized diagnostics to catch process anomalies early. Teams can resolve active upsets in minutes rather than hours, preventing costly outages and protecting production continuity.
Real-time anomaly detection: Identify process deviations before trip thresholds are breached, by continuously monitoring live sensor streams and operational indicators
Rapid diagnostic workflows: Isolate failures without manually sifting through disparate logs, with instant, contextualized data views for operations and engineering teams
Proactive upset mitigation: Shorten mean time to resolution (MTTR) during active events, stopping minor operational glitches from cascading into full unit shutdowns
Reliability & Integrity
Transition from reactive fixes to proactive prevention by correlating historical sensor trends with failure logs. Live equipment health views and automated risk mapping cut analysis cycles from weeks to minutes, reducing repeat trips and maximizing asset life.
Automated RCA generation: Create actionable first-draft RCAs in under 30 minutes with AI
Live integrity dashboards: Transform legacy P&IDs into dynamic corrosion and integrity risk dashboards
Proactive risk surfacing: Automatically uncover hidden equipment vulnerabilities and early-stage anomalies missed by traditional inspection workflows
Connected field ops & shift performance
Empower technicians and operators with mobile access to 3D data while streamlining shift handovers and process deviation tracking
Mobile Field Execution: Streamline frontline rounds, work package management, digital checklists, and bulk supervisor sign-offs directly on mobile devices
Intelligent Shift Handovers: Generate personalized shift handovers in text, audio, visual formats, and more that preserve vital field content
Increase worker productivity: Minimize communication gaps, make wrench time more efficient, and optimize operational consistency
Data-driven TAR planning & execution
Leverage P&IDs, 3D models, work order, and live data from across the enterprise to optimize scope, visualize risk, and prevent timeline and cost overruns.
Integrated Visual Execution: Combine visual planning tools and digital work packages directly with live field execution and real-time fleet inventory
AI-Assisted Optimization: Leverage intelligent AI agents that assist with TAR planning, scope optimization, and schedule conflict resolution
Reduce Downtime: Accelerate planned downtime while lowering overall inventory carrying costs
Integrated supply chain & fleet asset optimization
Unify supply chain constraints with live operational data for fleet-wide visibility into spare parts. Operators can source critical components from sister sites to prevent component-driven downtime while cutting holding costs.
Fleetwide asset visibility: Track, locate, and share critical spares seamlessly across sites, by connecting multi-facility inventory data with live operational needs
Integrated supply & risk alignment: Proactively resolve component shortages before they trigger unscheduled downtime by synchronizing supply chain constraints with real-time process monitoring
Optimized working capital: Minimize unnecessary safety stock and holding costs while maintaining maximum operational readiness and uptime across the enterprise
Learn how leading refiners and chemical processors are scaling value with Cognite
A leading North American petrochemical company dramatically improved it's turnaround processes
In just two months, this operator was able to onboard a 3-phase solution that delivered $4.6M in estimated savings and reduced SME time by 100s of hours. The solution then scaled to another asset in two days. They achieved this through:
Access to fully contextualized planning data such as P&IDs, work orders, asset hierarchy, and 3D models that encompassed more than 150K documents.
A single source of truth with all data fully contextualized in a 3D digital twin for a streamlined planning process
A fully digital boundary isolation mark-up workspace to ensure precise, real-time coordination to enhance safety and efficiency
Why Cognite for Refining
Build the foundation for operational excellence by taking advantage of pre-built applications built on common, trustworthy, contextualized data.
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