AspenTech optimizes production for Zeeland Refinery

On May 22, 2019 the company Aspen Technology developer company software for optimization of production assets, announced that oil refinery Zeeland Refinery, the joint venture of the companies Total and Lukoil of the Tax Code in Western To Europe, will start implementation and software deployment for dynamic optimization of production - Aspen GDOT.

By software of Aspen GDOT it will be originally applied to optimization of a circuit of production of average distillates and will help Zeeland Refinery Oil Refinery to provide stabler product quality, to increase development of average distillates and to increase energy efficiency of production.

Dynamic coordination of APC (means of advanced management of technology processes) for several production units with software of Aspen GDOT can help to optimize production, having synchronized it with the purposes volume and scheduling for achievement of higher profitability of production.

Nathalie de Muynck, the CEO of Zeeland Refinery, noted:

Performing deployment of software of Aspen GDOT based on our existing platform of advanced management of technology processes (APC) from AspenTech company, we can implement the additional opportunities of optimization promoting further increase in profitability of production thereby providing considerable advantage for our shareholders. Nathalie de Muynck, CEO of Zeeland Refinery

John Koumoutsakis, the senior vice president for Aspen Technology sales, added:

We with impatience expect an opportunity to help Zeeland Refinery with further increase in operational efficiency thanks to deployment of software of Aspen GDOT. Taking into account the appearing rules, such as changes of requirements to ship fuel are IMO 2020 requiring to reduce sulfur content in ship fuel, need of synchronization of planned production indicators with actual has key value for increase in production efficiency. John Koumoutsakis, senior vice president for Aspen Technology sales