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:
Our software 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.

CrudeManager

CrudeManager is a powerful tool for managing and manipulating crude oil information. It allows users to search and view crude oil data, display a wide range of graphs and explore the underlying laboratory measurements. Advanced predictive tools allow complete assay data across all properties to be estimated from limited measurement information — whether predicting the properties of a new crude oil, or updating an existing assay to reflect new measurements. Incorporating a multi-tower commercial fractionation model, CrudeManager can provide input directly into a range of industry-standard simulation, optimisation and scheduling packages.

CrudeSuite

The CrudeSuite assay management tools are designed for use in medium to large size companies, with users across many sites wanting to share and exchange information. Offering granular security control over user access to data and services, they have proven scalability from single-site usage through to global implementations for oil majors.

CrudeSuite extends the functionality of CrudeManager to provide an AssayWorkup tool geared around the requirements of crude experts entering full assays, whether from in-house or third party laboratories. In addition, a secure data synchronisation mechanism, CrudeSync, allows users to share information and maintain a central master database of crude oil information.

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.

Crude Oil Assay Libraries

Spiral markets a range of assay libraries for use in conjunction with the software tools. The Spiral HPI assay library is shipped as standard with all products. Industry-leading assay libraries from Chevron and Shell are optionally available in a variety of packages including regional and basket format.