Refining Community

The Refining Community Consultants operating as an independent voice in the oil and gas industry focuses on safety, profitability, and driving the overall well-being of plants to new levels. Our extensive industry experience provides our team with a deep understanding of all major units within refining, and gives us the advantage of approaching a refinery with fresh, knowledgeable, and independent perspectives. We excel at this objective through our consulting, on-site and off-site training, extensive field services, and hosting RefComm®, one of the largest ongoing conferences in the world for delayed coking, fluid catalytic cracking, and sulfur recovery. Our mission is to connect the downstream community and technology providers. To achieve this, the company brings together the Coker, CatCracker, and Sulfur operators and reliability technicians, process, project and mechanical engineers, inspectors, supervisors, managers, suppliers, and EPC's to learn from each other's expertise and improve productivity while lowering the risk. The Refining Community 1) Hosts high quality, technical, international refining conferences (RefComm®) since 2001. The high quality, current content is provided by refiners and suppliers and vetted by a relevant advisors group. The presentations and papers share the latest processes, innovations, best practices and lessons learned (see refiningcommunity.com/refcomm/). 2) Offers technical training courses for DCU, FCCU, SRU and other topics. They are offered before the RefComm Conference, at regional locations and customized for refinery, plant and vendor locations. 3) Provides consulting through its Field Services division. Site Audits Quick Hits to Make Your Unit Better Cold eyes review of equipment, projects, procedures, and operations PHA and HAZOP P&ID Review Startup/Commissioning Turnaround support Troubleshooting Incident investigation Structural Preventive Maintenance Program (PMP) Best Practices