Products:
KBC offers a wide range of software and associated services, from detailed reactor unit modeling and monitoring to refinery-wide simulation. 

Petro-SIM® and Petro-SIM Express are KBC’s full-featured, graphical process simulators, featuring Profimatics technology and industry-proven process models.  Petro-SIM includes general-purpose unit operations, an extensive component library, a range of thermodynamics packages, and innovative methods to fully integrate the software with plant information systems, databases, and Excel, and the LP.

KBC offers unsurpassed model breadth and depth that lets you truly model any part of the refinery.  KBC’s industry-proven Profimatics SIM Suite reactor models include: FCC-SIM (Fluid Cat Cracking), HCR-SIM (Hydrocracker), REF-SIM (Reformer), HTR-SIM (Hydrotreater Series), DC-SIM (Delayed Coker), ALK-SIM (Alkylation unit) and VIS-SIM (Visbreaker). New additions include reactor models for C6 Isomerization, Xylene Isomerization, and Aromatics Transalkylation.

Spiral Software provides tools and services that enable our clients to make the best possible choices in trading and refining crude oil.

Products:
Spiral Software's crude oil assay management tools are designed from the ground up for today’s challenges, allowing companies to benefit from the most recent developments in laboratory measurement, mathematical modelling and information technology. They play a business-critical role in over 60 companies across over 200 sites around the world, including global implementations by three oil majors.

CrudeSuite internet

CrudeSuite internet (CSi) provides secure, web-based access to crude oil data and decision support tools. Focussing on the needs of integrated oil companies and energy traders, CSi enables users to maximise profits in trading and refining through a better understanding of crude oil quality and refining performance. Industry-leading software innovations provide unprecedented performance in netback calculations, crude margin estimation and crude and product blending, allowing users to explore opportunities in real time. In only a few seconds, users can explore margin estimates across broad crude slates or generate and assess thousands of blending possibilities.

Accessible through standard web browsers, CSi provides a unified source of crude oil knowledge within a company, bringing together data from all available sources and making it globally accessible. Users throughout an organisation can make decisions on the same basis, with immediate access to the most current information in any format they require.

CSi is a fully modular application and functionality can be tailored to the specific requirements of each client company. In addition, the user interface is highly customisable, allowing each user to optimise the tool presentation around the needs of their particular role.

• The Advanced Blending module uses cutting edge blending technology to explore a wide blending space, identifying blends which meet user-definable property criteria. Powerful graphical tools help users to visualise viable blending ranges and select optimal combinations which can immediately be generated as full database assays or directly to report formats suitable for planning and scheduling.

• The Crude Valuation module provides powerful netback modelling with user control over refinery unit topology, operating parameters and product specifications. With a run time of less than 0.1s per crude, the netback tool allows wider ranges of potential feedstocks to be tested interactively, with users able to modify refining parameters and immediately explore their netback impact.

Crude Oil Assay Libraries

Industry-leading assay libraries from Chevron and Shell are available in a variety of packages including regional and basket format.

Spiral CrudeManager and CrudeSuite Assay Management Tools

For more information, please refer to the Spiral Software listing in the Planning, Scheduling and Blending section of the Downstream Software Reference Guide.