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OMS eLearning Academy Offers 20+ Refresher and Extensive online courses for learning to Manage, Control, Optimize and Reconcile Refinery Offsite Operations.

Houston, Texas, August 15, 2019 – Offsite Management Systems LLC (OMS) has launched their “OMS eLearning Academy” to offer online courses for the downstream oil Refinery Offsite Operations. The academy offers 20+ refresher and extensive courses to learn how to Manage Infrastructure, Control manufacturing, Optimize production, and Reconcile hydrocarbons. Downstream refineries produce 85-90% of its end products like gasoline, diesel, fuel oil etc. in offsite area peripheral to onsite process units. Inefficient and sub-optimal production of these products can affect the refinery’s bottom-line. For example, a 100KB/day refinery can lose 2-3 M$/year in tangible benefits by merely selling gasoline just 0.1 octane above its grade Octane spec.

These courses are targeted at refinery executives, managers, engineers, and operators as well fresh engineering graduates and students, and vary in length from 2 hours to 25 hours of online learning to teach the latest in refinery technology and management strategies to regain lost tangible benefits. The first phase of the academy is a refresher course with twelve topics worth 7+ hours of eLearning, a 60 mins free course on refinery technology and management strategy and many overview videos. The academy will be launched in phases and will be completed with all 21+ courses by mid-2020. The format of the courses are in high quality audio-video with English/Spanish sub-titles and will award a completion certificate after passing a quiz and taking a survey. These courses can be taken anywhere, anytime and on any device.

OMS eLearning Academy courses cost about 25-30% of similarly publicly offered courses and would save refineries millions of dollars per year in costs for training their staff. Dr. Suresh Agrawal, Founder & CEO, has 30+ years’ experience in the industry as executive and technical management with international companies like Exxon, ABB, etc. and has deployed many start-of-the art automation systems in refineries world-wide. He has taught these courses, for both public and private audiences for 25+ years and has earned a reputation for the prime content, as well as the interactive and stimulating presentations. Refining and related business professionals will be able to take advantages of his online courses and not be constrained by schedule and budget as with publicly held training events.

A few testimonies about the courses taught by Dr. Agrawal speaks for itself

“I have not attended any training course before which is so methodical, exceptional, rich in topics and presented excellently. I learned a lot about fuels blending in this course, thanks to the instructor. — Sergio Carvajal – IST corporation, Bogota”. 

“The course was very interesting as I could relate the refining and auto industry problems and challenges in terms of fuel quality specifications and ways to meet them economically. — Jay Cummings, GM”

If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Dr. Suresh at: email s.agrawal@oms-elearning-academy.com.

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It is becoming difficult for refining industry worldwide to cope with strict fuel quality and emission control requirements and regulations by local and foreign consumers and authorities. Unstable and high crude oil prices add further to their pain. Refiners are resorting to methods to conform to low sulfur, low toxic content fuel specifications and finding that advanced control, and optimization system, in addition to process unit modification and additions, is a suitable, workable and economical solution.

However, successful implementation of an advanced control and optimization system for gasoline, diesel and fuel oil products requires that both plant operators and engineers alike understand in details the technology and operations of such system available in the market place today. This workshop will cover in details each aspect of hardware, field equipment, software, interfaces and over-all integration of an advanced blend control system to leave the attendees with deep understanding and working knowledge of such a system.

OMS Offers the following four courses as part of strategic curriculum for the training of refinery personnel in the areas of management, control, optimization and reconciliation of refinery offsite operations.

1. MANAGE –  OMS-01 Strategic Management and Automation of Refinery Offsite Operations
2. CONTROL – OMS-02 Strategic Fuels Blending Management and Technology
3. OPTIMIZE – OMS-03 Principles and Applications of LP/NLP Programming in the Refining Industry
4. RECONCILE – OMS-04 Hydrocarbon Management in the Refining Industry

OMS is offering 3 days’ comprehensive course for first time in India on November 8-10, 2017.  For details click here.  This course is aimed towards control aspect (OMS-02) of refinery offsite operations.

Introduction

A refinery typical produces 70-85% fuel products (gasoline, diesel, LPG, fuel oil) of its crude throughput by blending 10-12 refinery products which vary in both qualities and monetary value. These fuel products have very strict specifications to meet and refinery use automated fuels blending control system to optimize and control their properties. It is industry known fact that a refinery can lose 1M$/year for a giveaway of 0.10 octane for 100KB/day refinery. Hence, the management is always concerned about the state of their fuels blending system and look ways to improve it to maximize the bottom-line from the their fuels blending control system.

Bench-marking Methodology

Bench-marking Methodology

OMS has developed a propriety methodology with verified Proof Of Concept (POC) to bench-mark the refinery’s fuels blending control system by using two indices, Automation Effectiveness and Operational Efficiency. The first index assesses the suitability of existing infrastructure of fuels blending system such as equipment, DCS, analyzers, tank farm management, etc. while the second index evaluates the operating practices in terms of control and optimization of blends, work-flow to schedule and execute blend orders, feedback data reconciliation, etc. by analyzing the refinery’s blend data for 6-12 months period.

These two indices also gauge the budgetary investments required either to convert manual to automated system or upgrade automated system to state-of-the-art blending control system. Another important outcome of this methodology is to enable comparison with other refinery’s fuels blending systems as well as monitor the accrued benefits in terms of KPI before and after recommended upgrades of the blending system.

Launching of Bench-marking Campaign

OMS has launched the world-wide bench-marking campaign to survey the refineries’ fuels blending system and offers the following three tiered options for the details of the survey contents. Typical duration of completion of survey would be 3-6 months depending upon the tier chosen and promptness of communications between OMS and the refinery to exchange information about refinery infrastructure and blending data.

Need more information or how to sign-up?

Following information is available at the following links:

1. Brochure and Demo Slides – Click here
2. Email us info@globaloms.com for RFP / RFQ
3. Call us at 1-281-650-3707
4. Fill-out information online Click here

There is no dead-line to sign up for the survey as it is perpetual and your refinery state indices will be compared with other refineries during your participation. However, OMS recommends to act now in view of low oil prices to benefit from the knowledge of state of your blending system and act on the recommendations when the oil prices resume to normalcy in near future.

Offsite Management Systems LLC (OMS) has released its revamped WordPress technology based new website (www.globaloms.com). The website is full of newly designed user-friendly menu categories and contents.

The main features of new website are:

• OMS Products are categorized according to its functionalities and include downloadable brochures and demos
• Details of OMS services
• Profiles of representative OMS projects
• List of OMS partners and their roles in the partnership
• Events – Lists webinars, training schedules and past recordings available online for viewing
• Downloads – White papers, webinar and training slides and manuals, software
• Publications – Blogs and News
• Careers – Opportunities available with OMS

Please visit www.globaloms.com and send us your comment.

PIMSOFT and OMS has signed a partnership agreement for the OMS role as Sigmafine implementer and professional. Sigmafine is software for the mass reconciliation or hydrocarbon management for the refineries and chemical plants.

PIMSOFT (https://sigmafine.pimsoftinc.com/) Founded in 1995, is a private company headquartered in Turin (Italy) with satellite offices in Milan, Rome and Houston (TX). Pimsoft is the owner and maker of Sigmafine, an enterprise wide platform for improving and sustaining data quality in the process and manufacturing. Over 70 professionals, engineers and IT specialists, work at Pimsoft. Pimsoft are in the business of generating value for their customers by ensuring the Accuracy and Usability of process and manufacturing data at all times so that their customers can fully trust their data for action. Sigmafine, a state of the art platform for validating, reconciling and organizing information according to operational and business requirements of the customer. Expertise and services required to implement and maintain a complete data governance framework for process and manufacturing operations. Caring for data in process and manufacturing is their core technology, competency and expertise.

OMS (Offsite Management Systems)  (www.globaloms.com) was founded in 1998 by Dr. Suresh Agrawal and Mrs. Meena Agrawal,  with a major focus is to provide the worldwide refining sector a world-class project management, integration and consulting service and automation solutions for refinery offsite operations based on Microsoft platform, MS products, third party expert systems and application frameworks. OMS is dedicated to their customers in providing them value for their investments, both in terms of time and money, giving them reasons to refer them with pride and total satisfaction.  Both OMS founder and co-founder bring 30+ years of expertise and experience in oil and gas industry with degrees in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Information Technology.

OMS will provide the followings services under this partnership with PIMSOFT:

• Initial consultation with the plant to assess its yield accounting practices, work flow and bench-mark its oil loss with industry’s best practices
• Evaluate the suitability and architecture of plant’s automation systems (Oil movement, tanks management, process database) to integrate with Sigmafine
• Create a business case in terms of bottom line to recommend the implementation of mass reconciliation system such as Sigmafine
• Work with PIMSOFT to develop a business proposal to implement and integrate Sigmafine
• Help the customer to develop process models in Sigmafine
• Test the Sigmafine models with help from PIMSOFT engineers
• Train the end users in maintaining Sigmafine models, interpret results and interface with final reporting systems (Excel, Crystal reports)