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AVEVA Offsites Management

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Inventory, movement and blend management for refinery offsites

and terminal operations

AVEVA Offsites Management provides accurate, reliable and accessible inventory

and movement information, movement automation and off-line/on-line multi-blend
optimization which helps to lower product cost, reduce giveaway and increase
operational and business performance.
Summary

Consistent and accurate refinery inventory information Unique off-line /on-line multi-blend optimization
is important for optimal planning, scheduling, and technology offers the opportunity to maximize overall
material loss management. From smart instrumentation blend production profit against the true, long-term
to off-sites inventory management and blend operational constraints of the refinery. On-line blend
optimization solutions, AVEVA offers a wide range control and optimization reduces re-blends, minimizes
of proven technologies and services to optimize tank giveaway and component costs, while ensuring
farm and terminal operations. products meet quality and regulatory
agency specifications.

Business Value Offsitese experience and best

Increased automation and information practices captured
management reduces quality giveaway, avoids
reprocessing and improves accounting accuracy.
Results are reduced product cost and faster AVEVA Offsites Management solution is based on an
time to cash, while at the same time increasing integrated, comprehensive set of software application
customer satisfaction. modules, designed to automate and optimize oil
movement and blending operations.

AVEVA Offsites Management captures the experience

Inventory management and movement automation
and best practices of more than two decades of
improves planning, scheduling and operational
Refinery offsites and terminal project engineering
efficiency, reducing the risk of contamination,
along with many successful installations. It is designed
reprocessing and demurrage. Mass balance
to integrate with your existing plant systems and to
reconciliation and inventory information enable more
support your current workflows. The standard software
accurate yield accounting and stock loss control.
approach additionally offers rapid deployment,
Results are lower cost of tank farm operations, higher
functional extensibility and long-term sustainability
asset utilization, more accurate inventory accounting,
at the lowest cost of ownership.
improved cash flow management and increased
customer satisfaction.

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Modular, scalable off-sites

Hundreds of man-years of off-sites project engineering experience are manifested in this sophisticated suite of tools
designed for the real world of Refinery offsites or for petrochemical terminal planning and operations.

y Tank Inventory System (TIS) for tank inventory calculations and information management
y Order and Movement Manager (OMM) for order management and movement monitoring
y Movement Automation System (MAS) for movement line-up and execution automation
y Material Accounting Balance (MAB) for physical and book inventories reconciliation
y Batch Tracking Manager (BTM) for pipeline system batch interface tracking
y Emission Monitoring System (EMS) for real-time tank emission calculations
y Blend Optimization and Supervision System (BOSS) for off- and on-line control optimization
y Blend Planning Optimizer (BPO) for multi-blend planning and improved on-line
y Digital Blender System (DBS) for base regulatory, ratio, and sequential control
y Analyzer Management and Data Acquisition System (AMADAS) for on-line analyzer validation

Open industry standards allow integration with your existing plant and business systems, maintaining and
improving the return on investment in existing assets and systems.

Business & Information Systems

Plant Planning & Production EH&S
LIMS
Historian Scheduling Accounting Reporting

Refinery Off-sites

AMADAS BPO OMM MAB EMS

BOSS MAS BTM TIS

Equipment Tank
Analyzers DBS (BRC) DCS
Control Gauging

Field Instrumentation

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Tank farm inventory
and movement management

Tank Inventory System

The Tank Inventory System (TIS) provides a uniform
approach for managing tank inventory information and
single-window interface to all major gauging systems
(e.g., Varec, Saab, L&J, Enraf). TIS calculates, displays,
and historically archives all level, volume, temperature,
quality, operating state, and alarm data related to a
tank and its contents. TIS provides information to the
operator to safely operate the tank, and to all other
AVEVA Offsites Management modules and external
operational and decision
support systems.

TIS stores strapping tables, performs American Society

for Testing and Materials/ American Petroleum Institute
(ASTM/API) table volume and density corrections,
estimates flow rate from level changes, continuously
updates Time-to-Completion and Time-to-Limits,
provides level and tank operational states and alarms,
and generates standard tank detail, pool, and midnight
inventory reports.

TIS can provide the necessary tank data for optional

on-line Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tank
emissions monitoring, calculation, and reporting.

Accurate online tank status data managed by the

tank information system is the foundation for closed
loop movement and blend control and optimization
within the Refinery Off-sites. All additional functional
modules leverage TIS information through the common
application architecture. All modules are empowered
to ensure efficient, reliable and secure movement
and blending operations specifically for oil and
petrochemical products.

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Order and Movement Management
The Order and Movement Management (OMM) system
provides a convenient and consistent tool for the
translation of business orders into process movements
to be executed by the Operations staff. Orders can be
downloaded electronically or manually entered and
broken down into discrete movements.

The OMM system tracks in real-time, recording the

history of each movement and order. Volume and time
are updated continuously to complete the calculations.
Movement data are validated using all available meters
and gauges.

The system is used by Planning and Operations to

schedule, set up, monitor, and historize all tank farm
movements. It handles all receipts, transfers, rundowns,
and shipment orders (for any tank/unit/transport
sources and destinations), as well as blending and other
complex operations. Accounting uses the movement
history data for mass balance reconciliation and for
improved billing accuracy.

Terminal management functions are included with the

user interface and database structure to handle truck,
rail, and vessel transport equipment with configurable
time sheet logging for demurrage tracking. Docks
management is facilitated with Estimated Time of
Arrival (ETA)/lay date/lay day visibility and drag-and-
drop berth assignment in a real-time Gantt chart. OMM
can also be used to manage ownership of “comingled”
product in leased tankage in independent terminals.

Standard order and movement level reports are

included with the package and custom reports can be
developed as necessary.

An optional Product Composition Tracking (PCT)

module manages all incoming and outgoing flows to
calculate material compositions of any tank. An optional
Tank Quality Integration (TQI) module can calculate
any quality of the aggregate product using linear or
nonlinear models. All data are stored in AVEVA Offsites
Management database for use in all oil movement and
blending applications.

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Movement Automation System MobileMAS supports a wide range of rugged mobile
handheld devices to accommodate even the most
Complete automation of movements are achieved
stringent hazardous or environmental requirements.
with the Movement Automation System (MAS). MAS
MobileMAS is built on the Wonderware® IntelaTrac®
performs automatic and optimal path selection, checks
technology. MobileMAS handheld devices are ready
equipment availability, verifies product compatibility,
to support operator inspection rounds leveraging
and executes the movement sequential control logic
Wonderware IntelaTrac, the industry-leading mobile
using expert system technology and a site-specific
workforce and decision making support system for
knowledge base.
remote data collection, event tracking, procedure
Tank farm topology is configured in a graphical execution and validation.
object-oriented environment. This allows immediate
updates to reflect the ever-changing physical
configuration of tank farms. Each movement category
is assigned a state diagram, movement operations, and
movement calculations.

Mobile Extension for the Movement

Automation System
The Mobile Extension to the Movement Automation
System (MobileMAS) closes the collaboration gap
between the field and control room operators. Today,
typical verbal synchronization is error prone due to
misunderstandings in communication, mix up and lack
of verifications, leading to operator errors and false
control system status.

MobileMAS delivers a mobile tool for field operators

that contains all of the field procedures involved
to prepare the line setup for movements and
communicates updated equipment status in real-time
to the control system using mobile handheld devices
and wireless technology. Setting up MobileMAS is easy.
Field procedures are automatically generated and
deployed to the handheld devices.

MobileMAS enforces line up sequences and equipment

identification by radio frequency identification (RFID)
location tags deployed, so operators are certain they
are at the right piece of equipment. Any equipment
status change confirmation entered as new status
by the operator is communicated with the scanned
equipment identifier to the control system. Any field
to control room operator verbal communication and
potential control room operator errors are eliminated.

The control system is automatically updated with

accurate equipment status information, which is
a step change in status accuracy of manually
operated equipment.

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Material Balance
The Material Balance (MAB) module provides the
material balance for a single site or over multiple sites.
Based on a chosen period defined by the user MAB
takes the starting inventory, the quantity moved over
the period and the ending inventory and calculates a
balance. Any imbalances are clearly indicated, and
the user interface allows for quickly zooming in to the
root cause.

Fixing imbalances is done by correcting invalid data,

changing the reported inventory or material moved
and/or entering transactions to book against the error.

The views and calculations of the material balance

accounting module provide the extra information an
accountant can use to make booking decisions. Finally,
the MAB software can report the consolidated and
checked dataset.

Batch Tracking Manager

The Batch Tracking Manager (BTM) module is capable
of tracking batches, mainly in large pipelines which
contain multiple batches at a given time. BTM can
determine the exact location of batches in a pipeline
and model the interface between batches of different
products adjacent in a pipeline.

BTM can inform the operator about batches and batch

interfaces at defined positions of the pipeline. The
operator or other modules can be informed which batch
is currently passing a pipeline location, what the next
batch will be and how much time it takes for the next
batch to reach a pipeline location.

Emission Monitoring System

The Emission Monitoring System (EMS) module
performs real time tank emission calculations according
to the AP42 standard of the EPA.

From a tank gauging system or the Tank Inventory

System (TIS) the EMS receives tank data such as level,
temperature and volumes and continuously calculates
the emissions for each tank.

The emission calculations comprise of breathing

losses, expellation losses, evaporation losses and total
emission. The results of the emission calculations are
stored in the AVEVA Offsites Management database
for emissions audits and for creating reports.

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Blend control and optimization

Blend Optimization and Supervisory System

The Blend Optimization and Supervisory System
(BOSS) provides off-line blend setup, validation,
pre-blend optimization, and continuous, online optimal
control. BOSS supervises and adjusts the operation
of the Foxboro Digital Blender System or a 3rd-party
blend ratio system to ensure that blend specifications
are met in an economically optimal manner, subject to
all operational constraints.

BOSS minimizes product cost, quality giveaway,

and/or recipe deviation, subject to:

y All pump, line, and tank constraints

y Header and final tank/batch specifications
y Component inventory/ullage
y Integrated tank/batch specification points

Equipment-specific expert operator advice is provided

in the event of any operational infeasibility. An optional,
automated pump selection feature can be used to
optimally balance component delivery capacities.

BOSS can be applied to any fuel product or crude inline

blenders and handles traditional tank-to-tank, tank-to-
pipeline/ship, and continuous rundown operations with
both controlled and “wild” component streams. Tank
swings and component changes are accommodated.

BOSS can also simultaneously optimize multiple,

parallel blend headers that produce different
products from shared components. The package
includes a library of standard conventional, RFG,
and CARB blend models and provides a convenient
software framework for the addition of site-specific,
custom models. Blend model predictions are biased
using online analyzer (or lab) header feedback and
used directly if analyzer signals fail validation.
Component property feed-forward can be provided
from lab sampling, online analyzers, and/or OMM
component tank quality integrations.

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Blend Planning Optimizer AMADAS interfaces to both online analyzers and
the refinery laboratory information system (LIMS) to
The Blend Planning Optimizer (BPO) module provides
statistically assess and validate analyzer performance
multi-period, multi-blend offline planning and online
and manage maintenance activities. All performance
optimization. Unlike other blend planners developed
data and maintenance work orders are archived into
as completely independent software products, BPO
the Refinery Off-sites relational database.
is truly an extension of BOSS, with a consistent
user interface, database, models, biases, objectives, AMADAS provides a key component of online
constraints, and solver engine. In addition to providing certification programs:
traditional offline planning capability, BPO also runs
online to continuously update and improve the multi- y A high-frequency online analyzer based statistical
blend plan and rigorously enforce current and future improvement in pushing property specifications
inventory constraints. y Eliminates delays and inventory hold between blend
completion and certification
BPO generates optimal recipes, rates, and start
times for a series of blends. The optimization is
subject to inventory constraints forecast across the
planning horizon, considering component rundowns,
imports, and exports, as well as product tank mixing,
certification, and lifting time constraints. In the event of
infeasibilities, current blend constraints are prioritized.

In the offline mode, BPO allows the user to generate

and store a series (monthly and/or weekly) of blends
to be executed by BOSS. In the online mode, BPO runs
in concert with BOSS, using online measurements to
fully exploit the potential for economic optimization –
without compromising the multi-blend plan by ignoring
long-term inventory constraints.

Analyzer Management and

Data Acquisition System
Online blend control & optimization is most profitable
when products can be certified for customers and
regulatory authorities using online analyzers. This
requires a rigorous and auditable statistical quality
control program.

The Analyzer Management & Data Acquisition

System (AMADAS) is specifically developed for
this purpose, incorporating applicable EPA and EU
guidelines for waiver applications. The package can,
of course, be used throughout the refinery for all online
analytical systems.

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Digital Blender System
The Digital Blender System (DBS) is a standard
Foxboro® EVO™ DCS application for the base regulatory,
ratio, and sequential control of in-line blenders. DBS
includes a complete set of operator displays for the
creation and stand-alone execution of blend orders.
When operated with BOSS, blend orders, start/
stop commands, and optimal recipe updates are
downloaded automatically.

DBS automatically opens valves, starts pumps, ramps

the total blend rate, and regulates the individual
component loops to achieve the pre-set recipe.

The system will initiate pacing if one or more

components cannot be delivered to recipe at the target
rate. When the pre-shutdown volume is reached, the
system ramps the blender to the shutdown rate, and
then stops the blend when the final volume is reached.
DBS can also handle continuous in-line blending
operations with rundown “wild streams.”

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Overall refinery optimization

AVEVA Offsites Management is designed to help Production Accounting

achieve greater agility and responsiveness by
AVEVA™ Production Accounting increases the accuracy
integrating complex, disparate software applications
and reliability for receipt, shipment and process data,
— in both the supply chain and enterprise layers — to
identifies gross errors, corrects inaccuracies and
enable collaborative work processes. Collaboration
reduces or eliminates losses. This is done by measuring
is critical for rapid response to unplanned events and
process streams, tank inventories, and capturing
emerging opportunities. This is achieved using a wide
material movements throughout the facility each day.
range of integrated applications across AVEVA’s
Engineering, Asset Performance, Monitor & Control, and One of the key differentiators of AVEVA Production
Operate & Optimize portfolios; with domain, industry Accounting is integration with the Off-sites Tank
and business process consulting. Inventory System and Order and the Movement
Manager. This allows data that was normally inputted
AVEVA Offsites Management integration manually to be automatically transferred into the
with ROMeo Online Process Optimization Production Accounting software for reconciliation
AVEVA offers a solution that integrates the rigorous
simulation and optimization power of ROMeo Process Business
Performance Management

Optimization with planning LP technology and off-sites Business Results

Plan vs. Actual
Business / Yearly Plan

management applications.
Production Performance Management
Monthly Production Quarterly /
Accounting Backcasting Monthly Plan
Integration of the AVEVA Offsites Management solution Plan vs. Actual

with process optimization software improves the Logistics

Performance Management

Daily Accounting Schedule

refinery process optimization results by using accurate Schedule vs. Actual

crude composition data as real-time input from off-sites

Hourly Balance Operations
crude feedstock inventory and blending operations. Operations Operations Monitoring Management

Process Control &

Optimization
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