Regardless of what our plans were in January 2020, nothing is the same in 2021 or the future. A digital strategy is no longer limited to a subset of impacted functions, but touches everyone’s goals organization-wide in some way, shape or form.

Today, refineries face the difficult challenge of maintaining and improving their gross refinery margin while meeting increasingly stringent emissions regulations. Refineries need to work in anticipation of new evolving emission regulations. Learn how BPCL Kochi refinery used Aspen HYSYS to develop a real-time refinery-wide digital twin for emissions monitoring enabling them to:

Industrial organizations are sitting on a decades-old, massive double-edged sword: their data. Until now.

The impact of COVID-19 has accelerated digitalisation for the process industry. In this exclusive interview with Pipeline Oil & Gas News, Antonio Pietri, President and CEO of AspenTech®, discusses how this acceleration of digitalisation will lead to the creation of a Self-Optimizing Plant.

As domestic and global economies heal, the petrochemicals industry will enjoy healthy demand growth for the next two years, but greater emphasis on productivity technologies is needed to seize this growth. Read this article to learn how refineries, looking to improve their productivity, must bring scheduling activities under a single platform in order to streamline their workflow and achieve a greater view of the entire petroleum supply chain.

As all companies have been challenged by the current economic and health crisis, the successful recovery requires a new view toward future development and growth with metrics that consider broad and more long-term goals. Featured in Hydrocarbon Processing, AspenTech’s Paige Morse shares considerations for building future resiliency that center around digitalization.

This article appeared in the 2018 American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) Conference Daily (Oct 2018) that highlighted the Operational Planning, Control and Automation Technologies session during which Chevron talked about the closed-loop, real-time coordination of a refinery middle distillate system, the benefits and key takeaways.

In this article, AspenTech's Ron Beck provides a vision for the refinery of 2030 and how it will play a key role in the sustainable, highly-diversified, and integrated energy enterprise of the future.

Appetite For LNG Grows

LOTTE Advanced Materials was looking for a tool that would convert data into value to drive operational excellence. In this ARC Advisory Group article, read how LOTTE chose AspenTech’s aspenONE Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) software to transform digitally, and build a robust data analytics platform. Now, LOTTE is able to lock in a visionary software implementation roadmap to optimize business processes and operations.