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The combination of Chevron’s PETRO LP (linear programming) technology with KBC’s world-class rigorous simulation and supply chain management technologies and services brings a new dimension to molecular management and value chain optimization for oil refinery and petrochemical plants. The combination of Chevron’s PETRO LP (linear programming) technology with KBC’s world-class rigorous simulation and supply chain management technologies and services brings a new dimension to molecular management and value chain optimization for oil refinery and petrochemical plants. Our models help you with operational and investment decisions including project evaluations, performance benchmarking, and feed and product pricing studies.

KBC’s leading supply chain software can turn production plans into an executable end-to-end schedule that accounts for process, tank-farm and logistical constraints. Visual MESA Supply Chain Scheduling (VM-SCS) enables you to maximize utilization of your assets at minimum logistical costs.

Visual MESA Production Accounting (VM-PA) allows engineers to build mass balance reconciliation models for closing individual process unit mass balances. It integrates the production accounting and engineering worlds so that each use the same single data source. The result is better engineering improvement opportunities and accounting balance for the organization.

Our simulation and optimization software goes hand in hand with robust business processes that support operational excellence. Our thermodynamics is the upstream industry standard and our refinery reactor models are the benchmark against which all other models are compared.

Petro-SIM is the only purpose-built oil and gas facilities simulator that combines the rich DNA of process simulation with integration to best-in-class KBC and third party software to create leading edge technology that is relevant to the upstream and midstream hydrocarbon industry. Petro-SIM provides the unique capability to model life of facility scenarios from the reservoir through to your processing facilities. Using our innovative technologies significantly improves management of the complex challenges faced by this industry sector and adds clearly identifiable value to your organization’s bottom line.

HCR-SIM simulates commercial refinery hydrocracking units to help you select the best set of operating conditions. Hydrocracking is the most flexible process in refining – but also one of the most complex in terms of possible operating strategies. There are a multitude of questions about feeds, conversion (total and per pass), catalyst life and hydrogen requirements. HCR-SIM enables refining staff to fine-tune this critical operating unit. Unit objectives may be maximum naphtha, kerosene, diesel or lubes production. You can use the HCR-SIM model for unit monitoring and to quantify and analyse the relative economic advantages of different feed slates, feed rates, reactor severities, product fractionation schemes and equipment modifications for debottlenecking.