Catalysts and Technology Licensing

ExxonMobil Catalysts and Technology Licensing can help refiners and petrochemical manufacturers increase capacity, lower costs, improve margins, and operate safe, reliable and efficient facilities. In our commitment to helping customers implement best practices and achieve excellent results, we provide cutting-edge proprietary catalysts and license advantaged process technologies for lower emission fuels, refining, gas and chemical needs.

Lower Emission Fuels: LĒF

LĒF is a portfolio of catalysts and process technologies that support the efforts of refiners and project developers who want to help commuters, travelers and shippers reduce their environmental impact through reduced CO₂ emissions*.

We offer technologies that help convert bio/renewable feeds into lower emission fuels thereby helping to meet our customers’ desire to reduce their emissions footprint.

Methanol conversion technology ›

Renewable distillates process technology (EMRD™) ›

Renewable distillates isomerization (BIDW™) ›

Conventional fuels and lubes process technology

Our high-performance catalyst and process technologies are ideal solutions for producing base stocks for high-quality engine oils and can offer industry leading yields of diesel and provide outstanding processing. FLEXICOKING™ technology is a commercially proven, cost-effective, continuous fluidized bed process that thermally converts heavy feeds to lighter products and flexigas.

Conventional fuels
Our advanced fuel manufacturing technologies often exceed customer expectations for quality and profitability. They can add value through excellent yield, offering robust operations while maintaining or increasing end product quality versus the incumbent.
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Lubes
Our high-performance catalyst technologies produce base stocks for high-quality engine oils. These catalytic technologies are capable of processing an extremely wide range of feedstocks and producing high-value outputs.
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Resid conversion
Our technology, licensed via Axens, converts a range of heavy, low-value feeds to higher-value products in a competitive, cost-effective and flexible solution.
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Chemicals

Xylene production
Our wide variety of xylenes processes offers robust operations, including upgrading lower-value isomers to higher-value products, increasing product versus product yields versus the incumbent.
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Benzene alkylation
ExxonMobil’s benzene alkylation technologies can be used to upgrade benzene to products that can be used in high-value production chains.
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Gas

Our gas treating technology enables customers to process sour gas streams while helping to meet stringent emission regulations and sulfur recovery objectives.

Gas treating
Our gas treating technology enables customers to process sour gas streams while helping to meet stringent emission regulations and sulfur recovery objectives. It can provide a cost-effective way to help meet even the most stringent of sulfur specifications while retaining CO₂.
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ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing
In our commitment to helping customers implement best practices and achieve better results, we provide cutting-edge proprietary catalysts and license advantaged process technologies for refining, gas and chemical needs.
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Key considerations for design and operation of a renewable diesel unit
Design of the process configuration and operation of a unit are fundamental aspects in the production of renewable diesel. The process for making renewable diesel has some specific challenges that differentiate it from traditional hydroprocessing.
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Presentation: Fluidized bed Methanol to Gasoline (MTG): A reliable and cost-effective solution for production of renewable gasoline
Dr. Fengrong Chen, Technical Sales Manager and Victoria Satizabal, Business Development Manager of ExxonMobil provide an overview of Methanol to Gasoline (MTG) chemistry. The history of MTG development is covered for ExxonMobil fixed bed and fluid bed MTG processes. Learn about the advantages of both and the status of our fluid bed MTG commercialization.
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A Particle of Difference
How ExxonMobil Catalysts and Technology Licensing solves shared challenges through expertise, specialty catalysts, technology licensing and collaboration.
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