Planning a crude oil supply system through simulation

Pradeep Batra

Omega, 1980, vol. 8, issue 4, 493-497

Abstract: This paper will describe the planning of a marine terminal that will supply the water borne crude requirements of an oil refinery. The refinery has experienced a major shift in supply from domestic pipeline crudes to foreign water borne crudes delivered by increasingly large tankers. Sufficient tankage does not exist at the refinery to allow proper segregation, handling and fluctuations in inventory levels caused by the size and uncertainty of tanker arrivals. The major steps involved in this analysis included developing and evaluating alternative proposals for new tankage at the terminal and the refinery. For this purpose, a model was built to simulate the proposed marine terminal and crude deliveries to the refinery. This combined discrete/continuous simulation model was then used to determine the optimal proposal for tankage.

Date: 1980
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