One refinery. Every system. In the open.

What you are looking at

The plant in the viewer is generated in code, on this page, from the site palette and standard refinery geometry: block-level geometry for every major unit in the navigator (vacuum, hydrotreaters, reformer, FCC, hydrocracker, alkylation, isomerization, coker, amine, sulfur, hydrogen, utilities, wastewater, blending, loading, flare and firewater), plus the tank farms, cooling towers, pipe racks, roads, rail siding and control building. Nothing here is a scan, a photograph, or an operator's model.

CDU-100 is the detailed part. Select any of its sixteen tagged assets in the model, in the register, or on the P&ID, and the same card answers. The other 20 units answer at unit level: capacity, feeds and products, asset-class counts, design data, simulated operating values, condition, energy and emissions, all as reference estimates in the register.

Below the plant sit the depth layers, the level this twin standard requires on every asset. Materials: what everything is made of, by specification, and what attacks it — the damage mechanisms are named per API RP 571, because a twin that cannot say how a thing fails cannot say how it is doing. Components: every stationary part, every moving part and every wear part, templated per class and instanced on the CDU-100 assets — the fouling flag on E-101C lives at its tube bundle, where fouling actually happens. Resources: catalysts, chemicals, steam, hydrogen, water, air and spares, quantified against the same design basis. Protection: five layers — cyber and command integrity, emanations security, directed energy and EMP hardening, storm resilience, and quantum-safe locking of command and evidence — written into the register as design requirements with named standards, per unit.

Plant totals, reference estimates: 21 columns, 66 vessels, 24 reactors, 148 shell-and-tube exchangers, 284 pumps, 22 compressors, 5,760 valves, about 2,620 field instruments, 341 motors and about 60.5 km of above-ground piping. Fugitive (LDAR) component counts are the valve and flange totals: 5,760 valves and about 12,672 flanges.

Where this stands, honestly

This is a reference twin of a generic Gulf Coast style refinery, built from public information. It is not any operator's plant. No client data and no operator data is in it, and no real refinery's internals are public: operators do not publish their plants, for sound security and commercial reasons.

The geometry is ours, drawn in code to standard arrangements. The design basis, 250,000 barrels a day, is a reference choice in the middle of the large refinery range, not a real unit's rating. The process values are simulated: a small model drifts each reading around its design value every two seconds so the room behaves like a room, and every value panel says so. The scan view is a scan-style rendering generated from the model itself; real scan ingest waits on the dataset access described below.

The protection layers need the same plain statement. They are modeled as design requirements: the standards are named, the targets are stated (shielding figures are design targets, not test results), and the coverage matrix says, per unit, whether the requirement is modeled, partial, or roadmap. Nothing on this page claims that any real plant is protected against anything. Quantum key distribution is carried as an emerging evaluation track, labeled as such, and credited to no unit. On a real engagement, these requirements are what the facility's own engineers verify against the built plant.

What is real here is the system: one register behind the model, the diagram and the feed, with a flag working the way a flag should. Put a real facility's data in that register, under the owner's keys, and this room is that facility's room.

Data sources

• EIA Refinery Capacity Report 2025. The public baseline for United States refining: 18.4 million barrels per calendar day of operable capacity across United States refineries as of January 1, 2025. Our 250,000 barrel a day design basis is a reference choice inside that real range.
• OpenStreetMap Gulf Coast refinery footprints. Many refineries are fully footprint-mapped in the open: tank farm grids, pipe rack spines, unit plots, rail sidings. Those layout patterns shape this model's plot plan.
• DEXPI Specification 2.0.1. The vendor-neutral standard for exchanging P&ID and plant model data. The XML register on this page follows its concepts.
• DWSIM. The open-source process simulator. Its class of steady-state crude unit model is what a production version of this feed would run on; the feed here is a lightweight drift model in the browser.
• CLOI dataset (Cambridge). Laser scans of real industrial plants, including an oil refinery and a petrochemical plant, 140 million labelled points across ten equipment classes. Rights are held by AVEVA and BP and access is by request. Status: access request sent Oct 25, 2026.
• Pipework dataset. A terrestrial laser scan of a real petroleum refinery: 110 million points, 4,647 shapes, 17 classes. Status: the owner route for access is being identified.
• Industrial3D. 612.7 million labelled terrestrial LiDAR points from operating water treatment facilities, the largest public industrial scan set of its kind. Status: checked October 25, 2026, the full dataset is not yet released; previews only.
• CEPSA Leixoes refinery photogrammetry model (Sketchfab). A drone photogrammetry model of a real refinery's exterior in Portugal. Status: identified, not embedded here; license and access to verify before any use.

What a real room adds

• The facility's own capture. LIIVE SPACE scans and photography replace the generated geometry, asset by asset, on the same register.
• Real feeds. Historian and sensor values take the place of the simulated feed, with the same cards and the same flags.
• The owner's keys. A real room is private: guests see the views the owner grants, and every look is on the record.