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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