The chemicals and refining business is driven by global supply and demand issues.  No new refining capacity has been built since the mid 1960's and in many cases capacity has been retired.  This is complicated by natural disasters which regularly cause shut downs in the GoM for example.

Some of our Chemicals and Refining Clients include:

Asset utilisation and productivity are key issues in the chemicals and refining sector.  We have experience of working with a number of major operators to improve supply chain performance, engage suppliers and better spares inventory management including stores operations, MRP optimisation, cycle counting, critical spares management, benchmarking stores and MRO.  With one operator we benchmarked 25 sites Worldwide and developed generic improvement agendas which were then delivered at each site.