The Industry

• The dwindling world supply of easy to refine "light sweet" crude oil is forcing refiners to process ever greater quantities of "heavy" and "sour" crude oil using "delayed coking" in coker heaters.
  
  
• New delayed cokers are being built and existing units expanded in increasing numbers.
  
  
• Currently there are about 200 coker heaters in North America and over 375 worldwide.
  
  
• With many coker heaters, the cost of downtime is measured in the millions of dollars. Eliminating shutdowns and startups slashes these costs.
  
  
• Refinery operators are constantly searching for opportunities to reduce the downtime and inefficiency resulting from coke formation in heater tubes.
  
  
• C2’s initial target market is 80 of the worst performing coker heaters in North America, which average 3 shutdowns per year (one every 4 months on average).
  
  
• The stakes are high, needs continue to grow, and available sources of oil become dirtier and more costly to refine.