Downstream Consulting BU
The crude oil refining market is continually changing. New and more-stringent emission regulations, ongoing growth in lighter petroleum products, the recovery of crude oil prices, increased crude flexibility and new market opportunities are creating new levels of competitiveness.
Refinery profitability today depends on the ability to make quick and accurate decisions — on what crude to process, what products to produce and how to operate.
The planning and optimization process uses a number of sophisticated tools to make decisions and to formulate plans for the refinery.
We specialize in the most important ones:
Refining Production planning & scheduling
Refinery profitability, logistic reliability and safety are ensured by intelligent production planning and scheduling.Increases in oil prices, which means that crudes of poor quality need to be processed, increasing demand for petroleum products, new environmental regulations about clean fuels, and the start of new production technologies that are part of more complicated refining schemes.
Our company will develop new or upgrade existing refinery LP models to find the margin-maximizing crude and product slate for a refinery, subject to the market and operational constraints that a refinery faces at a given point in time.
The refinery scheduling model turns the high-level plan made by the LP model into daily operating instructions for the refinery that are more detailed and useful. It is a simulation model with much more detail and accuracy than the LP.
We will also develop a scheduling model for your refinery based on an existing or freshly developed LP model.
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Each stage in the oil and gas chain is linked to the next. They can include transportation, sales, material management, technology, refining, and other processes.
Supply chain management in the oil and gas sector needs to be managed properly to ensure that the resources are utilized efficiently. This in turn helps to lower the operating costs and the profitability of the oil and gas sector.
Our consulting team will follow the supply chain in a strict manner from the planning stage to the execution stage. We will work closely with the managers and executives of the refineries as well as the working engineers.
Our experts are meant to understand the entire functioning of the refineries and pipelines, suggest and implement new technology for increasing efficiency, and develop new strategies to increase production capacity.
Refinery and Network LP models development and upgrade
Linear Programming (LP) is a mathematical technique for finding the maximum value of some equation subject to stated linear constraints. It is commonly used in refinery planning to identify with confidence the most profitable refinery-wide operating strategy.
A good LP model is one that closely represents the operational reality of a refinery. A typical refinery LP model contains the end-to-end configuration of the refinery with a detailed representation of primary and secondary processing units, blending facilities, power and utilities.
Supply chain management in the oil and gas sector needs to be managed properly to ensure that the resources are utilized efficiently. This in turn helps to lower the operating costs and the profitability of the oil and gas sector.
