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Creep
Also known as: Capacity creep
Creep refers to the tendency of refining capacity to gradually increase over time, even without major capital projects. This largely comes from the continuous, incremental de-bottlenecking of the constraints in individual process units by process engineers in an effort to maximize profitability.