aspenONE™ Planning & Scheduling for Refining & Marketing
Maximize margins and optimizes end-to-end refinery operations
Solution Brochure
aspenONE Planning & Scheduling for Refining & Marketing improves refinery operational and financial performance by integrating production planning, unit scheduling, and blend scheduling. It maximizes profitability by optimizing selection and scheduling of feedstocks, improving plant performance, reducing the gap between plan versus actual, and increasing visibility and optionality.
Part of aspenONE Plant Operations for Refining & Marketing, aspenONE Planning & Scheduling integrates key planning and scheduling processes, delivering savings of $10 to $20 million for a 200,000 bpd refinery:
- $0.15 - $0.20/bbl savings from feedstock/production optimization
- $0.03 - $0.06/bbl savings from reduced blending give-away
- $1 - $3M per year savings from reduced demurrage and inventory costs
The solution is built around three integrated products:
- Aspen PIMS™ facilitates enterprise-wide planning by allowing linear and non-linear planning and the creation of multi-plant and multi-period requirements based on optimizing feedstock selection, product slates, plant design, and operational execution plans.
- Aspen Orion XT™ enables coordinated, holistic site-wide scheduling for the full range of refinery liquids, including crude oil, feedstock and intermediates, and finished products.
- Aspen MBO’s™ seamless integration with Aspen Orion XT delivers event-based, multi-blend product optimization across the scheduling horizon.
Petroleum Customer Successes
Video: Petro-Canada: Using Simulation Models to Improve Plant Performance and Reliability
