AMI Consultants, Inc.
4102 Tremont Ct.
Sugar Land, TX 77479
Phone: 281-565-4745
Fax: 281-565-1196
Email: Info@AmiConsultants.com
www.AmiConsultants.com

Products:
PetroPlanSM is a software to simulate the whole refinery using a truly user-friendly graphic interface. Applications include: evaluation of revamp/expansion options, planning of grassroots facilities, evaluation of alternative feedstocks, changed product specifications and optimization of plant operations.

In the simulation each refinery unit is represented by a block (e.g. FCC). For each block, the prediction of product yields and properties is based on feed characteristics and user specified parameters (e.g. conversion). The equations for predicting a block’s performance are visible to the user and are editable. Crude oil cutting and specification product blending are integrated into the main simulation.

Haverly Systems, Inc.
12 Hinchman Avenue
Denville, NJ 07834
Phone: 973-627-1424
Fax: 973-625-2296
E-mail: newjersey@haverly.com
http://www.haverly.com

Other Haverly Office Locations
Ventura, CA: 805-653-5355
Houston, TX:   713-776-3161
St. Albans, U.K.: +44 1727 826321
Singapore:   +65 9630 6364

Company Bio:
Haverly Systems Inc. is an independent software company that has specialized in the development and use of optimization-related products and services for over four decades. Their systems are used in more than 50 countries worldwide by international and independent oil companies, chemical companies, and many other industrial and government entities. The effectivenss of their products has long been recognized in the continued patronage and goodwill of their clients. The ownership has been unchanged since the company's founding, and most senior management and technical staff has been with the company for more than 15 years. This continuity in ownership, management, and business specializaiton is reflected in the corporate stability, continued profitability, and very personal pride found in satisfying each client's need for technically excellent products and services.

Products:
H/CAMS: a software system for the management, development, analysis, and application of crude assay data. H/CAMS determines and relates the effects associated with mixing and distilling crude oils, as well as other virgin hydrocarbons. Hundreds of varying whole crude, distillate, and residue properties are accepted, reported, correlated, or otherwise calculated. Raw assay data is easily entered and results displayed through vivid graphs. These can be readily smoothed, augmented, and contraasted against other properties and known references to provide the very best representation of crude behavior to applications that depend on good assay data. Correlations and calculations-based sound engineering principles provide users additional intelligence in determining data quality and best data interpretation. H/CAMS features several useful utilities that allow easy updating of existing assays with refinery laboratory or current operating data and assure accurate representations. H/CAMS may be supplied with one or more high quality, industry developed crude assay libraries to supplement a user's local library and extend the application of the system.

H/COMET: the on-line version of H/CAMS which allows for the quick access and evaluation of crude oils from a large, on-line crude assay database. Crudes may be easily cut, blended, compared, and analyzed using advanced graphical and computational techniques. LP optimization technology is used to calculate netback value for selected crude or blends of crude. Crude netback values may readily be determined for a user customized set of refinery configurations.

GRTMPS: Haverly's premier economic optimization planning system. GRTMPS is used to model individual refinery and petrochemical plant operations, as well as entire business enterprises, of any size and complexity, and over any time horizon. It employs both advanced linear and non-linear modeling techniques. Its non-linear modeling abilities extend to cut-point optimization, reformulated gasoline modeling, rigorous process simulation interfacing, and investment opportunity studies. Haverly also offers an advance refinery modeling platform in GRTMPS structure and developed by the industry consulting firm: Turner, Mason & Company -- to assist in the development and execution of models.

H/Sched: advanced operations scheduling tools. Each H/Sched system couples superior schedule simulation and generation technology with state-of-the-art graphics to provide tools with unsurpassed scheduling optimization abilities. Schedules are automatically generated and optimized, using Haverly's own Progressional LP technology. After reviewing informative Gantt charts, flow diagrams, inventory profiles and detail windows - schedulers may directly modify these mediums to alter their schedules and obtain more desirable results.

H/Gal-XE: an expert H/Sched application specifically designed for the optimization of gasoline blend scheduling. Allow for fast construction and execution of models constrained by operational parameters typically found in gasoline blending and distribution operations.

M3 Technology, Inc.
10375 Richmond Ave., Suite 380
Houston, TX 77042 Phone: +1.713.784.8285
Fax: +1.832.553.1893

Products:
Prometheus DSS is a user-friendly suite of applications for refinery planning and scheduling activities covering the entire supply chain from crude oil logistics to finished products distribution. DSS seamlessly integrates operations research tools (linear, non- linear and mixed integer optimization), plant simulators (distillation, hydro-treatment-conversion, catalytic and thermal conversions) and reliable blending methods into the planning and scheduling process.

Plant simulators give users the flexibility of fine-tuning the refinery models using few parameters to reproduce the actual performance of their refinery units. Their results can be used also to input alternative LP packages.

DSS Applications

CUTS builds a database that characterizes each crude oil in lists of short TBP cuts (pseudo components) and calculates their properties using proprietary algorithms that ensure full consistency with crude assay input data. This detailed characterization permits the direct use of plant simulators within DSS applications. Data are made available also in format requested by third party software

SIMRAF builds the technical and economic Medium and Long Term Planning Refinery Model. Advanced linear and non-linear modeling techniques (recursive methods, mixed integer) are integrated with plant simulators dramatically reducing the time (and cost) for model construction and updating. Intermediate products yields and properties are automatically calculated facilitating the simulation of alternative processing schemes with new units, new processing modes, and product specifications.
Multi-period models are managed with intermediate stock quality and quantity control.
Multi-refinery schemes are simulated, including crude oil and product distribution to demand areas, pipelines and other means of transportation and loss control. The tool combines extended reporting, communication, and integration capabilities with innovative methods for solution analysis, such as, model diagnostic, ranges inspection and infeasibilities management.

PROLAV is dedicated to Refinery Operations Scheduling. This model integrates plant simulators to calculate the processing of crude oil mixtures according to the plants’ operating modes (TBP cuts, fractionation efficiency, operating severity, processing conditions, etc.). It calculates yields and qualities of related plants and monitors the quality and quantity of intermediate product tanks. The model is customized and fine-tuned according to refinery requirements and produces documents to be shared within the refinery sectors for plants management and monitoring.

PRORAF is a event driven simulator of handling operations from crude oil unloading up to product shipping.

OTTMIX is a Blending Model for daily use to calculate the optimized blending recipes of the available intermediate streams according to their qualities, products specifications, and market prices. 

Soteica Ideas & Technology, L.L.C.
16010 Barker’s Point Ln, Suite 580
Houston, TX, 77079
Phone: 281-829-3322
Fax: 281-966-1710
Email: infousa@soteica.com
www.soteica.com
Other Soteica Office Locations:
Europe/Middle East: +34 (93) 375 3503
Latin America: +54 (11) 4555 5703

Company Bio:
Soteica is a Process Engineering Software Company dedicated to the development, implementation, support and sustainability of its hydrocarbon and energy management applications, S-TMS and Visual MESA. For more than 20 years, Soteica has successfully deployed its applications in refineries and petrochemical plants throughout the Americas and Europe. Our customers have achieved millions of dollars in recurring benefits from the sustained use of our applications.

Products:
Soteica’s Scheduling and Operations Manager, S-SOM, is an application for the programming and simulation of refinery and petrochemical plant operations as part of an integrated supply chain model.

S-SOM provides detailed models for:

• raw material reception
• movements in the tank yard
• pipeline operations
• refinery and petrochemical unit operations
• product shipment

S-SOM’s objective is to assure the feasibility of the scheduled operations while improving the adherence to the production plan by supporting:

• Reaching flow targets
• Maintaining quality targets
• Maintaining inventory policies
• Reducing penalties due to demurrage
• Reducing operational complexity (switches)
• Reducing material degradation

At the same time, it performs rigorous control of the following constraints:

• Minimum and maximum tank capacities
• Minimum and maximum pumping capacities
• Possible alignments (static and dynamic connections topology)
• Buffering and decantation policies
• Sequencing and delay of material lots in pipelines
• Landing and off-shore mooring availability

S-SOM provides future visibility through detailed simulation models, presenting constantly updated projections of inventories and material properties. The simulation engine is equipped with an automatic state event detection mechanism which enables the user to be alerted to critical situations.

Spiral Software Ltd
St. Andrew's House
St. Andrew's Road
Cambridge, CB4 1DL
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)1223 445 000
Fax: +44 (0)1223 445 001

www.spiralsoft.com
sales@spiralsoft.com

Spiral also has consultants based in Oklahoma City, OK, and Weston, CT, USA

Company Bio:
Spiral Software was set up in 1998 in response to an observed change in the needs of the evolving oil industry. The modern oil industry faces a growing challenge: while environmental specifications on products grow tighter each year, many of the remaining reservoirs offer relatively poor quality crude oil. In this context, understanding the detailed refining behaviour of crude oil is more critical than ever before.