CUTS

CUTS provides a sophisticated crude oil quality database to other DSS applications and third-party tools.

Connected refinery workflows

Integration with Existing Tools

CUTS provides a consistent crude oil data foundation that can be shared across refinery planning, scheduling, blending, optimization, simulation, and technical evaluation workflows.

1 Shared source
of crude data

A common engineering foundation

Use the same crude characterization throughout the refinery workflow

A crude oil characterization is rarely used in isolation. The same crude assay may support multiple engineering activities performed by planning, scheduling, process engineering, technical services, and operations teams.

CUTS creates a consistent and queryable crude assay database, allowing every department to work from the same representation of the crude. This reduces the need to manually reconcile laboratory reports or reinterpret assay data separately for each engineering application.

Because the characterization covers the entire boiling range, crude properties can be prepared for virtually any required fraction and supplied in the form needed by downstream engineering tools.

CUTS Crude Assay Database Consistent characterization across the full boiling range

01 Import Laboratory assay data

02 Reconcile Validate and complete

03 Distribute Supply engineering tools

Supported applications

One characterization. Multiple engineering uses.

Refinery Planning

Supply consistent crude properties for feedstock evaluation, economic studies, crude selection, and production planning.

Planning models

Refinery Scheduling

Use the same crude definition for operational schedules, tank movements, crude receipts, and processing decisions.

Scheduling tools

Crude Blending

Compare and combine crude oils using consistent property relationships and common boiling-range definitions.

Blend evaluation

LP Optimization

Generate consistent pseudo-component properties for refinery LP models and economic optimization studies.

Optimization models

Process Simulation

Prepare crude fraction properties for CDU simulation and other process engineering applications.

Simulation inputs

Technical Evaluation

Support crude comparisons, feasibility studies, feedstock reviews, and other refinery engineering analyses.

Engineering studies

Shared refinery data

Replace isolated laboratory reports with a reusable engineering resource

Treating the crude assay database as a shared technical resource establishes a common language for refinery data management. Teams can focus on analysis and decision-making instead of repeatedly preparing, checking, and validating the same crude information.

Reduce conflicting assumptions between engineering departments.

Eliminate repeated assay preparation for individual applications.

Improve consistency across planning, scheduling, and simulation.

Support collaboration between refinery engineering teams.