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Spiral Crude Assay Management

Dr Rachel McCarthySpiral Software

SimSci-Esscor User Group ConferenceHouston, 15th October 2012

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Introduction to Spiral

Founded in 1998, headquartered in Cambridge, UK Spiral provides tools and services that enable our clients to

make the best choices in trading and refining crude oil Over 90 client companies across 300 sites, spanning refining,

trading, upstream, and engineering services Global implementations by BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and

Shell

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Spiral Customers Alon AmSpec ANCAP Api Attock Refinery Bangchak Barclays Capital Bashneft Bechtel Bharat Petroleum BP Campana Refinery CEPSA Česká Rafinérská Chennai Petroleum Chevron CNOOC & Shell

Petrochemicals Concord Energy Core Laboratories Ecopetrol Engineers India Ltd Essar Oil ExxonMobil Formosa Petrochemical

Fuji Oil Company Glencore Grupa Lotos GS Caltex Heide Refinery Holborn Refinery HollyFrontier Corp HPCL-Mittal Energy Hunt Refining Husky Energy Independent Belgian

Refinery Idemitsu IES INA Ineos Intertek Commodities IPLOM IRPC ITS Kellogg Brown & Root Kuwait Petroleum

Europoort Kuwait Petroleum

International

LINIK LITASCO Mercuria MOL Murphy Oil Muse, Stancil & Co. Neste Oil NIS North Atlantic Refining OMV Orlen Lietuva Pakistan Refinery Paz Petrochina Petrobras PetroSA PetroVietnam R&D Centre

(PVPro) PIRA Energy Group Preem PKN Orlen PTTAR Public Co Ltd S-Oil Salavatnefteorgsintez Samsung Engineering

SGS Control Services Shell Showa Shell Sinopec Corp SK Energy SOCAR Trading SOMO Iraq St1 Refinery Statoil Taiyo Oil Tamoil Technip Thai Oil TNK-BP Total France TPPI Trafigura Tüpras Uhde Edeleanu UOP US Dept of Energy Varo Refining Cressier West Pacific Refining and

Petrochemicals

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Crude Oil Property Data

Differ not only between oil fields, but also vary from cargo to cargo from a single oil field

Can have a major impact on the value of crudes Crude oil property data form the basis of crude oil

descriptions in decision support for trading, planning and scheduling

Comprehensive, up-to-date and accurate crude property data is essential for effective business processes

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Distribution of Crude Oil Density and Sulphur Content

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Distribution of “Arabian” Crude Grades

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Confidence Regions of Cargo Variation for Arab Light

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Cargo Variation for Arab Light and Amna

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Spiral CrudeSuite: Application Examples

Crude oil assay management Advanced tools for entering new assay data, recutting assays,

and generating input for refinery planning, scheduling and simulation tools

Enterprise crude oil knowledge management Intuitive tools with strong cross-functional links, allowing users

to share expertise and consistent data across business areas Feedstock screening and ranking

Fast, transparent models for screening crudes and identifying optimal blends—minimising processing risk and maximising margin

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Spiral CrudeSuite: Interfaces

CrudeSuite Desktop: Windows desktop application providing core assay management functionality

CrudeSuite DLL: Windows DLL allowing programmatic access to the CrudeSuite functionality and data

CrudeSuite Laboratory: Windows desktop application, adds rich assay workup functionality for expert users

CrudeSuite internet (CSi): Web browser based application providing assay data management and feedstock screening & ranking

CrudeSync: Server-based sharing of assay data throughout the business process in any organisation

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CrudeSuite: Desktop, Web, and DLL Versions

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Crude Oil Assay Management

Generation and maintenance of crude assays and final delivery into planning, scheduling, and simulation tools

Laboratory assays: Work-up of in-house and third-party laboratory assays in any format

Assay updates: Updating existing database assays from new, limited measurements such as cargo quality tracking data

Assay blending: Generation of assays of crude oil blends, based on fixed blend recipes or targeted properties

Fractionation modelling and assay recutting: Multi-tower shortcut distillation model for generating input data for planning and scheduling tools

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Crude Oil Assay Management

Updates to assay libraries

Tower fitting

AssaySynthesisLab Assay

Cargo Assay

Refinery data

Assay Database

FlowsheetManager

AssayUpdate

Input for planning, scheduling, and simulation tools

CrudeSync

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CrudeSuite: Assay Data Viewing

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Enterprise Crude Oil Knowledge Management

Spiral CrudeSuite and CrudeSuite internet (CSi) offer strong cross-functional links, allowing users to share expertise and consistent data across business areas

Enterprise assay management: Maintenance of a central corporate database, synchronised across all sites and users

Crude oil quality tracking: Track crude cargo quality trends and identify quality variations

Forums: Share qualitative information such as operating experience

Event-based alerting: Generate cargo quality or operating experience alerts for publishing to appropriate users

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Crude Oil Assay Management

Updates to assay libraries

Tower fitting

AssaySynthesisLab Assay

Cargo Assay

Refinery data

Assay Database

FlowsheetManager

AssayUpdate

Input for planning, scheduling, and simulation tools

CrudeSync

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Enterprise Crude Oil Knowledge Management

Updates to assay libraries

Crude Oil KnowledgeDatabase

Refinery operating experience

Tower fitting

AssaySynthesisLab Assay

Cargo Assay

Refinery data

Assay Database

FlowsheetManager

Cargo monitoring, alerting and AssayUpdate

Input for planning, scheduling, and simulation tools

Refinery Netback margin estimates

Crude and product price feeds

Pre-configured refinery models

CrudeSync

Reliability Analysis

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CSi: User-Configurable Portal

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CSi: Cargo Quality Monitoring

Reject

Alert

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Feedstock Screening and Ranking

Spiral CrudeSuite internet (CSi) adds modules for rapid evaluation of crudes and blends

Netback margin estimation: Perform economic evaluation of feedstocks for generic or specific refinery configurations

Refinery feedstock acceptance: Set up screening criteria to quickly identify candidate or acceptable crudes for processing

Blend optimisation: Blend crude oil to meet complex blend specification criteria and economic objectives

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CSi: Netback Tool

Rapid crude valuation through a highly configurable Netback tool

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CSi: Crude Blend Evaluation

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Spiral CrudeSuite and SimSci PRO/II

Updates to assay libraries

Crude Oil KnowledgeDatabase

Refinery operating experience

Tower fitting

AssaySynthesisLab Assay

Cargo Assay

Refinery data

Assay Database

FlowsheetManager

Cargo monitoring, alerting and AssayUpdate

Input for planning, scheduling, and simulation tools

Refinery Netback margin estimates

Crude and product price feeds

Pre-configured refinery models

CrudeSync

Reliability Analysis

SimSciPRO/II

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Summary

Spiral provides industry-standard assay management solutions with over 90 client companies across over 300 sites

Comprehensive, up-to-date and accurate crude property data is essential for effective business processes

Spiral’s CrudeSuite toolset offers: Crude oil assay management Enterprise crude oil knowledge management Feedstock screening and ranking

Integration between Spiral CrudeSuite and SimSci PRO/II will streamline the workflow for accurate design and troubleshooting of refineries