Refinery Overlay: Seamless Access to Refinery and associated terminal
Supercharge your analysis with access to key data from 345 coastal refineries, along with associated historical and real-time crude and clean product flows.
Would you like to see the crude diet for coastal refineries in China? How about indications of the operational status of upcoming refineries such as Dangote in Nigeria and the Olmeca refinery on the East Coast of Mexico? Or the vessels awaiting load or discharge from a particular refinery?
Vortexa’s new refinery overlay displays 345 coastal oil refineries and their current status (Active/Shut/Upcoming/Unknown).
Using this powerful dataset gives the user the ability to see all global coastal refineries on an interactive map screen and with one click, the crude and clean flows into the terminal(s) and/or port(s) associated with the refinery. Additionally, the feature takes users directly to the flows page where specifics can be found on the flow into or out of the terminal(s) associated with the refinery.
This feature will give users the power to understand if a refinery could be on an unplanned or unreported turnaround given the lack of sudden change in crude imports and/or product imports/exports. For products it depends on whether the refinery is a net importer or exporter which the user can derive from the historical time series.
The user can get an idea of the type of changing trends and seasonality in crude diets from heavier to lighter slates just by a few clicks. In addition, this feature enables close monitoring of new refinery start-ups through changes in crude import and product import/export trends.
One use case is monitoring the ramping up of the Dangote refinery, Nigeria. We can see that product liftings rise and fall which is an indication of how the refinery is running. We can also see crude imports into the refinery by origin which serves as an indication of the operation rate in which the refinery is operating.
Another use case is the Ruwais refinery upgrade. US light sweet crude was facing stiffer competition ahead of the crude flexibility project at Ruwais which allowed the facility to refine heavier crude, such as Upper Zakum, therefore increasing exports of its higher-quality Murban.
With the API, the user has even more ability to analyse flows and build out a time series of crude or clean product imports/exports into a refining system allowing users to create a profile of regional refinery systems by owner or operator and capitalise on trading opportunities for any given flow using the most complete and up to date data.
