12/06/2026
Energy is both the largest single operating cost in refinery operations, and the primary source of the industry’s direct carbon emissions. Every unit of energy saved is therefore simultaneously a margin improvement and an emissions reduction.
Autonomous refining has the potential to raise efficiency by at least 11%. Why, then, has it been so slow to take off?
Joachim Boese argues that the blocker is no longer technological - it’s human.
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