World Refining Catalyst Market Update

摘要

The behavior of the world oil refining industry showed the following trends: 1. Construction continues mainly on new HDT units of heavy feedstock and distillation cuts to meet product quality adapted to future environmental regulations. 2. Hydrocracking capacity will increase significantly (8.3%/y) to satisfy fuel market needs. 3. Refineries will continue to consolidate operations, rationalize capacity and increase performance of existing facilities. 4. Global refining catalyst market will rise to $2.68 billion (3.9%/y) by 2005. Spending on HDT, FCC, HCK and other catalyst market will grow by about $34 million/y, $30 million/y, $13 million/y and $16 million/y, respectively. N-REF catalyst market will not grow during 2001-2005. 5. Higher catalyst spending growths is expected for North America region ($24 million/y).