The fluid catalytic cracking unit converts heavy gas oil into gasoline and is one of the most complex and valuable units in a refinery, with the reactor-regenerator, risers, cyclones, and high-temperature internals at its core. State refiners and national oil company refining arms tender FCC equipment, internals, and turnaround replacements. For an FCC equipment maker, the demand spans new units and recurring turnaround work, turning on the unit configuration and high-temperature materials.
Who Buys FCC Units and Internals on Open Tenders
FCC demand sits with the openly publishing refiners running conversion: IOCL, BPCL, HPCL, and MRPL in India; the refining arms of Saudi Aramco, ADNOC, and KNPC in the Gulf; Pemex, Petrobras, and Ecopetrol in Latin America; PETRONAS in Southeast Asia. Each is a verified open or registered-access buyer, and FCC tenders span reactor-regenerator equipment, risers, cyclones, internals, and turnaround replacement parts.
Why FCC Tenders Are Easy to Miss
An FCC tender turns on unit capacity, the specific equipment (reactor, regenerator, riser, cyclones), and high-temperature materials, written deep in the specification. The title may read FCC, fluid catalytic cracking, cat cracker, FCCU internals, or appear inside a unit or turnaround package, across several languages. A maker watching one portal misses the other refiners, and FCC internals bundled into a turnaround package never surface in a keyword search.
How an AI Bid Agent Surfaces Every FCC Tender
An AI bid agent for tender monitoring reads each solicitation and identifies FCC scope from the specification, equipment type, capacity, materials, including when it is bundled into a unit or turnaround package. Each morning it pulls every new tender from the refiner portals the supplier is registered on, translates the non-English ones, and scores fit against the maker's product range. The qualified FCC tenders arrive in one ranked daily digest across every monitored buyer.
You can see the full workflow running, the live feed, the fit scoring with written reasoning, and the daily digest, in our AI bid automation demo for refinery and petrochemical equipment suppliers. The same AI bid agent runs for any downstream segment, against any portal the supplier is eligible to access, in any language.