Energy Aspects strengthens Refining Analytics with deeper refinery intelligence and market insight

Energy Aspects has developed one of the most granular and comprehensive refinery intelligence services available — operating at unit level across assets, operations and economics to deliver precision and actionable market insight. The service combines granular data, rigorous analytics and expert insight to drive decision-making with greater precision. 

The upgraded service gives clients a dynamic view of the global refining system, combining asset data at unit level, operational intelligence, margin analytics and expert research in one place. Covering 969 active, retired and planned refineries worldwide and more than 10,000 units, Refining Analytics helps users monitor capacity, throughput, utilisation, maintenance, crude diets and yields with greater detail. 

The enhanced platform also improves usability. A redesigned interface and upgraded set of visualisation tools make it easier to query data, compare trends and move between historic, current and forward-looking views. Daily updates across margins, maintenance, runs and capacity, alongside weekly API delivery, support faster analysis and easier integration into client workflows.

Refining Analytics is built around three connected pillars. 

Refinery Assets

Refinery Assets forms the foundation of the service. This continuously maintained database of the global refining system captures refinery and unit-level capacity across historic, current and future states, enabling users to track how refining capacity is evolving by asset, region and market. 

Refinery Operations

Built directly on that foundation, Refinery Operations tracks crude throughput, utilisation rates and maintenance activity, including more than 24,000 maintenance events since 2018. The service monitors both planned and unplanned turnarounds at unit and facility level using Energy Aspects’ in-house modelling, translating capacity data into operational visibility and more accurate market intelligence. Its operational coverage also links with Cargo Tracking to provide deeper insight into crude diets and product offtake across the refinery supply chain. 

Refinery Economics

Refinery Economics helps clients connect refinery operations with indicative profitability, providing access to in excess of 2,000 margin indices across nine key trading regions, 40 refinery archetypes and key secondary unit margins. Split across feedstocks, refinery modes and configurations, these analytics help users assess how refiners are incentivised to run, compare configuration-specific economics and link refinery profitability with crude flows and product yields. 

Underpinning all three pillars is a programme of regular, thematic and medium-term research from dedicated Energy Aspects analysts. The result is a fully integrated service that combines live data, rigorous analytics and expert insight into a single, coherent view of the global refining complex.