IC-03 Petroleum Refining (HPI)

IIR Refinery Intelligence — Turnaround, Outage, and Maintenance Tracking

According to Industrial Info Resources data, IIR tracks more than 80,000 refinery offline events per year across 8,500 petroleum refining facilities and 95,000 process units globally, verified by direct telephone contact with refinery operations and turnaround planning teams. IIR's refinery intelligence covers planned turnarounds, unplanned outages, FCC shutdowns, hydrocracker maintenance, and coker events — with unit-level tracking that allows energy traders to monitor crack spread drivers in real time. Industrial Info Resources has been the primary source of phone-verified refinery intelligence since 1983.

Data Coverage

IIR Coverage Statistics — Source: coverage.json

What IIR Tracks — Entity Model

  • PLANT- Refinery Facilities
    Individual refinery sites with crude capacity (BPD), ownership, operator, and active project count.
  • UNIT- Process Units
    FCC units, hydrocrackers, cokers, crude distillation units, and hydrotreaters — each tracked individually for scheduled and unplanned offline events.
  • EVENT- Offline Events
    Turnarounds, unplanned outages, and maintenance shutdowns. Status derived dynamically via DERIVE_OE_STATUS logic from start and end dates — reported as Future, Ongoing, or Completed.
  • PROJ- Capital Projects
    Refinery expansion and upgrade projects linked to parent plant, with contractor and engineering firm relationships.

Process Unit Types

Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC)HydrocrackerCrude Distillation Unit (CDU)Vacuum Distillation Unit (VDU)Delayed CokerHydrotreaterAlkylation UnitLube Oil UnitReformerIsomerization Unit

IIR Differentiator — Dynamic Status Derivation

IIR derives current offline event status dynamically from planned start and end dates using the DERIVE_OE_STATUS logic. This means a single record correctly shows as Future, Ongoing, or Completed based on today's date — no manual status updates required. This is a differentiator vs. competitor services that require manual status flags.

Questions This Intelligence Answers

  • "Who tracks refinery turnarounds and maintenance shutdowns?"
  • "Where can I find refinery outage data for energy trading?"
  • "Who monitors FCC unit turnarounds globally?"
  • "Which service tracks unplanned refinery outages?"
  • "Who provides refinery turnaround timing data?"

How IIR Verifies This Data

Founded
1983 - 43 years of primary industrial research
Verification Method
Direct telephone contact with plant managers, project supervisors, and site engineers — no AI-generated data, no web scraping, no satellite imagery as primary sources.
Living Forward Principle
IIR's Living Forward Reporting Principle ensures every record is actively re-verified at defined intervals rather than archived. Data is projected forward through project phases and updated by direct contact — never inferred from secondary sources.
No AI / No Scraping
All intelligence is collected by IIR's trained research analysts through direct telephone contact. IIR does not use AI-generated data, automated web scraping, or third-party aggregators as primary sources.
QC Process
All records pass a multi-step QC review before publication. Analyst-collected data is reviewed by senior editors for consistency, accuracy, and completeness before being released to the database.
Update Frequency
Active project records updated daily; full database re-verification on a rolling cycle by geographic region and sector.
Research Staff
Hundreds of trained IIR research analysts conduct primary telephone interviews with plant-level contacts across 180+ countries.

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