Spiral was founded with a vision to transform the oil industry’s use of software, helping to maximise the value of every drop of crude oil. The inspiration behind this was twofold.
Firstly, the evolving industry context creates new challenges and opportunities. Refiners are seeing a more diverse feedstock market than ever before
—diverse in both quality and pricing. There are now many crude oils available which present some processing challenges in return for a discounted market price. At the same time, product specifications are becoming more stringent and legislation is tightening around safer operational limits. Put together, this makes a confident understanding of feedstock refining behaviour more important than it has ever been.
—diverse in both quality and pricing. There are now many crude oils available which present some processing challenges in return for a discounted market price. At the same time, product specifications are becoming more stringent and legislation is tightening around safer operational limits. Put together, this makes a confident understanding of feedstock refining behaviour more important than it has ever been.
Secondly, the new capabilities of information technology enable effective collaboration, even across huge global organisations. It is perfectly realistic to gather real-time information from operating sites and provide meaningful analytics that help users collaborate to make the best possible decisions. This is the step from looking at assay data as simply a set of laboratory measurements to seeing it as “assay knowledge”: bringing together assay measurement with operational data, refinery models, past experience, market information and even news feeds.
This is what we mean by “assay knowledge management” and since 1998, our tools span this whole space: from traditional implementations at laboratories that help them validate and work-up assay data, through to oil major implementations with over 2,500 users in a single enterprise, spanning every area of the business, across upstream exploration, feedstock trading, strategy and operations.
This pushes well outside the bounds of legacy assay management software. For example, some of the largest commodity trading companies use our tools to run thousands of cases to understand how markets would react to feedstock and refining capacity changes. In parallel, engineering and consulting companies use our tools to analyse strategic investments, understanding the future value and risk of capital investments and green field developments.
-Note from Joe McMullen, blog owner-
Back in October, 2012 Invensys acquired Spiral Software. Since then we have been actively integrating Spiral technology with SimSci products, and learning more and more about all that Spiral has to offer our customers. I truly believe that Invensys provides unparalleled coverage of the refinery value chain, something that greatly benefits our customers. Spiral Integration with both PRO/II and ROMeo are due to be released in coming months. I look forward to hearing feedback from our customer on how valuable that will be!
-Note from Joe McMullen, blog owner-
Back in October, 2012 Invensys acquired Spiral Software. Since then we have been actively integrating Spiral technology with SimSci products, and learning more and more about all that Spiral has to offer our customers. I truly believe that Invensys provides unparalleled coverage of the refinery value chain, something that greatly benefits our customers. Spiral Integration with both PRO/II and ROMeo are due to be released in coming months. I look forward to hearing feedback from our customer on how valuable that will be!
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