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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
Company
Bio:
AMI Consultant develops and markets software for Petroleum refinery planning
and economics. Since the introduction of the PetroPlanSM software in
1996, AMI’s customer base has grown with installations now at over
50 sites worldwide. Licensees include operating and E&C companies
as well as educational institutions.
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.
KBC
Advanced Technologies, Inc.
14701 St. Mary’s
Lane, Suite 300
Houston, TX 77079
Phone: 281-293-8200
Fax: 281-293-8290
E-mail:
salesinfo@kbcat.com
http://www.kbcat.com
Other KBC Office Locations
London: + 44
(0)1932 242424
Moscow: +7 (0)95
980 8449
Singapore:+ 65 6735
5488
Japan: +81 (0)45
290 6380
Company Bio:
KBC Advanced Technologies is a leading independent consulting and technology services group,
delivering improvements in business performance and asset value to owners and operators in the
oil refining, petrochemical, and other processing industries worldwide. Profimatics®, an
operating division of KBC, provides specialized software to improve a refinery’s and/or a
petrochemical facility’s profitability through industry leading models and simulation
technology.
Products:
KBC offers a wide range of software and associated services, from detailed reactor unit
modeling, troubleshooting and monitoring to refinery-wide simulation. KBC’s
comprehensive kinetic models are the best basis for development of LP vectors, available
within a new, streamlined process.
Petro-SIM® and Petro-SIM Express are full-featured, graphical process simulators, featuring
Profimatics technology and industry-proven process models.
KBC offers unsurpassed model breath 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.
M3 Technology, Inc.
10850 Richmond Ave., Suite 290
Houston, TX 77042 Phone: +1.713.784.8285
Fax: +1.832.553.1893
E-mail: m3.sales@m3tch.com
www.m3tch.com
Company
Bio:
M3 Technology is a leading provider of ad-vanced asset scheduling and
optimization solutions for oil refining, petrochemical, na-tural gas-LNG
and terminal operating indus-tries. M3's SIMTO™ software captures
eco-nomic opportunities and reduces the cost of managing complex facilities
at the plant level, regional operating level and global enterprise level.
Products:
SIMTO
M-Blend
SIMTO
M-Blend, multi-period blend recipe optimization, is a solution for
product blending, which is a common activity in the process industry
and has strong economic and operational impacts. A plant, whether a
refinery, petrochemical complex or a blending facility, needs to meet
the market's demands and maximize the plant's profits, while utilizing
its available materials and equipment to blend feedstock or products.
Examples include:
• A
crude mix needs to make the right pro-duct slate and still conforms
to the metal-urgical limits and capacities of processing units.
• Gasoline
blending involves many blend stocks and additives, stringent quality
specifications, and regulatory requirements. Blend stocks vary in quality
and quantity from day to day because of variations in the crude mix
and unit operation. Quality specifications and regulatory requirements
vary by product grades, seasons, and even local markets.
SIMTO
M-Blend is comprehensive, yet flexible, user-friendly and able to work
well with other systems. It optimizes a blending schedule for a wide
range of materials such as crude oil, gasoline, diesel, asphalt, naphtha
feedstock and petrochemical products. It automatically generates optimal
blend recipes, while considering component rundown rates and qualities,
logistic limitations, and shipment requirements. The optimized solution
provides options to help a plant minimize cost and quality giveaway.
SIMTO Distribution
SIMTO Distribution facilitates easy decision making for complex business
problems involving supply chain planning and distribution. SIMTO Distribution
optimizes several parameters of the materials and its movement across
the network such as buying, storage, selling, and transportation, lot
costs and others. Some of the common problems solved by SIMTO Distribution
involve: Optimizing the Supply Chain network across multi-commodities
sharing multiple modes of transportation, optimizing the specification
and quality blending of materials for oil refining and petrochemical
industries, and blend recipe optimization for the process industries.
SIMTO Distribution quickly provides optimal solutions for:
• The quantity of materials of a type that should be ordered
at a location in a given period to meet a demand of a certain type.
• The amount of material of a type that should be transported from
one location to another.
• The mode of transportation that should be selected for a type
of material.
• The amount of material that should be held for selling in future
period based on the sales forecast.
SIMTO Distribution empowers planners to provide the Right Product at
the Right Place at the Right Time at the Right Price. SIMTO Distribution
provides a visual aid for performing the case comparison and enables
quick evaluation of What-If scenarios.
SIMTO
Scheduling
SIMTO
Scheduling software provides inte-grated scheduling and planning system
for the operation of a facility. An operating plant, whether it is
a refinery, a petrochemical com-plex, or a terminal, must satisfy its
customers' demands for high quality products and on-time deliveries,
while maximizing profits for its stakeholders. The scheduler must respond
quickly to changes from market to plant levels and to provide customers
with accurate delivery time. The scheduling technology addresses major
activities in a plant such as:
• scheduling
feedstock upload, storage, and tank transfer and scheduling the feeds
to process units
• scheduling process units, including produc-tion yield, quality and
reaction processes
• scheduling blending and shipments of final products
SIMTO
Scheduling has comprehensive modeling functions and flexible scheduling
features to help a process facility adapt to changing market demands,
increase utilization of its finite capacity, and reduce operating costs
with controlled inventory. The program's user-friendly interfaces and
visualization technology shield users from the complexities of the
production process and yet enhance the comprehension of the plant's
capacity and improve scheduling efficiency. The program's structure
and integration promote coordination and cooperation from the plant
level to across the entire enterprise.
m:pro IT Consult GmbH
Kirchgasse 47
65183 Wiesbaden
Germany
Phone: +49 611 39843 0
Fax: +49 611 39843 12
E-mail: info@mpro-it.com
www.mpro-it.com
Matthias
Wackenreuther, Enterprise Solutions
Company
Bio:
m:pro IT Consult is a project services and software products company
which enables petroleum refining, petrochemical and other industries
to achieve total integration of information sources and applications,
from business systems, ERP and supply chain management through to plant
information, production planning, scheduling and operations decision
support.
Products:
m:pro delivers enterprise wide or point solutions - easy and fast to
implement - which truly integrate the production and business applications
required to manage the overall assets.
m:pro enables, consult and assists business process improvements, especially
for refining supply chain management (SCM).
The m:pro Integration Platform (m:ip) provides the total integration
of information sources and applications including ERP, planning, scheduling,
functional databases, plant information systems, forecasting in a phased
justified approach. The m:ip enables and improves the use of best-in-class
software, plant and business applications = asset maximization.
The m:pro object warehouse (m:owh) is our integration, data storage/management,
and business intelligence back-end. The m:owh is based on standard and
open relational database technology.
The m:pro explorer (m:exp) is our feature rich, fully web-enabled common
graphical user interface including build and administration tools. The
m:exp can run as the portal or can seamlessly be embedded in popular
web portal environments.
m:pro provides standard applications/interfaces for
* production planning, scheduling and blending
* performance monitoring and dashboards
* data and process quality
* information analysis, visualization, flowsheeting, trending and reporting
Featured applications/interfaces are
* Analyzer Monitoring
* Blend Monitoring and Reporting
* Crude Composition Tracking
* Crude Scheduling
* GRTMPS Planning Interface
* Heat Exchanger Monitoring
* KPIs, Operating Envelops, Plan vs Actual
* Lab Interface and Reporting
* LP Data Collector
* Oil Movement Logging
* ORION Scheduling Interface
* PIMS Planning Interface
* Quality Tracking
* Tank Calculation System
Prometheus
40, Piazza Borgo Pila
Genoa 16129 ITALY
Phone: +39 010542011
Fax: +39 010581451
E-mail: info@prometh.it
http://www.prometh.it
Aurelio
Ferrucci, Sales Manager
Company
Bio:
Prometheus is an independent consulting company serving the oil industry
since 1986 with extended experience in refinery management. It provides
products and services for refinery management that improve profitability,
refinery operations, and marketing decisions. Prometheus offers a Decision
Support System (DSS) specifically designed to ease the direct use of
its optimization models by refinery managers.
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.co.uk
sales@spiralsoft.co.uk
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.
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.
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