Pims – A tool for optimizing downstream

The goal of this article is to introduce the MOL Group business optimization process and its supporter tool PIMS (Process Industry Modeling System) modeling and optimizing program package. PIMS is an effi cient aid in the group level planning and business optimization of the supply chain for MOL Group Downstream. This software is the most widely used one in the oil industry.

We have presented how the supplies to the markets can be optimized, how PIMS can be of assistance to us in project economics studies, how production plan, inter-refinery transfer plan and inventory plan can be prepared, and how we can used it for price sensitivity studies and in many other applications.
It is essential that Downstream has been integrated into one single model, and now we are able to define the complete business optimum for Downstream. This means that the optimum feedstock purchases, the transfers between production units, details of the processing, production, blending structures and various materials, the stockpiling or distribution quantities, the marketing quantities, and the associated variable costs and prices can all be obtained from one single PIMS result. All this information is available by refineries. We are convinced that optimization is an efficient tool to support in achieving our strategic and business targets. We improve our optimization and planning methods continuously to exploit better and better our opportunities in the future.

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