Scheduling in the hydrocarbon supply chain: Challenges and opportunities for computer aided decision support

HECTOR ENRIQUE SALOMONE

Buenos Aires

Simposio; 45 JAIIO, 5º Simposio Argentino de Informática Industrial (SII 2016); 2016

SADIO Sociedad Argentina de Informática.

Hydrocarbon supply chain, centered mainly on Oil and Gas processing in refineries and petrochemical plants faces big challenges for their operations and distribution coordination. The task complexity and potential benefits offer bit opportunities for the application of computing,model-based, decision support systems.In spite of being an area of great activity in the academic Process Systems Engineering literature, where there have been reported numerous proposals to solve its many problems, in practice the penetration of such proposals in the form of applications and procedures is still very poor.This presentation will review and summarize the key aspects of coordination of operations in this supply chain, highlighting the distinctive characteristics compared to other chains. Their most important problems will be described and also the possible causes that limit the adoption of solutions developed so far will be addressed.