The companies said the Patoka hub can receive crude oil from both western Canada and North Dakota's Bakken play through a variety of existing pipelines as well as through Enbridge's Southern Access Extension pipeline, which is under development. The pipeline is expected to be in service by 2015. Read the full article
Monday, 18 February 2013
Here are the results from my reader survey. Not surprising that over 70% of my readers are engineers.
The "other" responses included a journalist and a dynamics analyst.
Again, not surprising is that most of my readers are from upstream oil and gas or hydrocarbon processing since that is where SimSci-Esscor simulation software is used most. The "other" response was from a student.
Any thoughts or comments? Is there a question that I should ask my readers in the future?
Thursday, 14 February 2013
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.
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.
View the recorded webinar to learn more about the benefits of assay knowledge management.
View the recorded webinar to learn more about the benefits of assay knowledge management.
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Line Sizing using PRO/II
1. Place a Pipe unit-op on the flowsheet and attach it with inlet and outlet stream.
2. Select the units of measure, components and thermodynamics as required.
3. Input the stream data.
4. Double click on the Pipe unit-op to open its Data Entry Window and select the Line Sizing – Forward Calculation radio button.
5. Click on Line/Fitting Data and enter the line or fitting data
Click OK.
6. Click on Line Sizing data and enter the required information
The primary sizing criterion is based on pressure so enter either a maximum pressure drop or minimum outlet pressure. User can also change the Pipe Diameters that are used in sizing search and the maximum Average Fluid Velocity.
7. Run the simulation and view results. There are many ways of viewing the results the below is a snapshot of results in html format.
Thursday, 7 February 2013
New blog posting by Michael Schwarz, Invensys, on Big Data for Industry, and why you should care...
Big Data in Manufacturing
In order to provide the best content possible, I would like to get a better understanding of my readers. Would you mind just answering the two questions. I am not asking for you name or company, just your position and industry. No date besides the end results will be tracked. Thank you in advance. It shouldn't take you more than 10 seconds. I will post the results next week.
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