Digital Initiative for Petroleum Refining Industry to Achieve Operational Excellence

June 27, 2019

Refineries have been under pressure for a few years now due to the continuation of low prices, aging workforce and lack of young skilled employees, availability of greener substitutes, unplanned shutdowns, and sub-optimized refinery processes. Advances in renewable energy, improvement in energy efficiencies in vehicles, natural gas-powered automobiles, and electric vehicles are the major reasons for decreasing growth in demand of refinery products. Policy intervention by countries.

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