PETROBRAS chooses flowers for refinery scheduling
Following a highly competitive bidding process, PETROBRAS has selected Princeps’ flowers© for the scheduling of its refineries in Brazil.
Flowers unified planning & scheduling : New features 2020
Here are few of our team’s latest innovations. Many of those were presented at our user conference (Q4 of last year); they are now ready to go to market: Flowers Unified planning and scheduling model: beyond a unique platform, planning… Read more
Princeps User Conference Announced: 16-18 October 2019, in the heart of Paris!
Learn how we solve the challenging crude oil blending and sequencing optimization problem and how we generate on the fly and run embedded LP models within scheduling. Discover how we align scheduling instructions with planning directives thanks to an innovative software… Read more
Princeps will be present at the Petrochemical and Refining Congress 2019 in Budapest
Hamid CHEHADE, General Manager of Princeps, will give a presentation about alignment of planning and scheduling to achieve effective optimization: how the software support the process. During his presentation, he will explain how planning and scheduling models are unified within the… Read more
From planning to scheduling (or from “what to do” to “how to do it”)
Modern planning models need to satisfy 2 complementary objectives
• Enabling the user to run a large number of cases in order to quickly evaluate various crude oils available in the market, under combinations of price and demand scenarios, in order to make more robust decisions under uncertainty
• Allowing a short-term perspective in which refinery planning is viewed as a preparation step to refinery scheduling …
Optimizing crude oil blending and scheduling
Against a background of structural overcapacity, oil refineries have seen their margins shrink. Because of this, refineries today need to reinvent themselves to remain cost-effective.
Among the various issues to be addressed are the agility and performance of processes for crude oil planning and scheduling. What parameters should refineries optimize in order to increase their profitability?
Princeps will be present at the Petrochemical and Refining Congress 2018 in Berlin
Hamid CHEHADE, General Manager of Princeps, will give a presentation about optimization of several process units during the simulation of a scheduling model within flowers. This approach leverages the integration of Princeps LP and flowers scheduling within the same platform and using… Read more
Princeps deploys its Compass system for crude oil scheduling optimization at Natref
Natref (National Petroleum Refiners of South Africa): Princeps deploys its Compass system for crude oil scheduling optimization at Natref. See this page for more information on Compass. Contact us for a live demo!
Princeps will be present at the Petrochemical and Refining Congress 2017 in Hamburg
Hamid CHEHADE, General Manager of Princeps, will give a presentation about margin improvement through crude oil blending and sequencing optimization. Please visit us at our stand!
