Refineries & Petrochemicals

From crude cargo to dispatch: one connected view of the whole refinery.

Crude planning, plant data, maintenance and dispatch live in separate tools; margin leaks between them.

The question it answers

“If this crude cargo is 3 days late, which units and dispatches are affected?”

What changes: Better margins, fewer unplanned shutdowns, faster plan-to-dispatch decisions.

All seven layers

How ForgeOrbis works for refineries.

  1. 01

    Connect

    Ingest

    Data sources

    • Plant historian
    • DCS (read-only)
    • LIMS
    • Planning/LP tools
    • ERP
    • CMMS
    • Tank gauging
    • Crude cargo schedules
  2. 02

    Understand

    Extract

    Facts from unstructured data

    • Shift logs
    • Inspection reports
    • Crude assays (PDF)
    • Permits to work
  3. 03

    Unify

    Resolve

    What must be matched

    • Same equipment tag across P&IDs, CMMS and historian
    • Crude grades with variant names
    • Vendors
  4. 04

    Relate

    Model

    Objects and links (the ontology)

    • Unit
    • Equipment
    • Tag
    • Tank
    • Crude Grade
    • Cargo
    • Product
    • Batch
    • Work Order
    • Permit
  5. 05

    Decide

    Ask

    Example question

    “If this crude cargo is 3 days late, which units and dispatches are affected?”

  6. 06

    Execute

    Act

    Approved actions

    • Recommend crude/blend change
    • Raise maintenance work order
    • Alert planner
    Advisory only, never writes to control systems
  7. 07

    Trust

    Govern

    Trust and compliance

    • OT/IT separation
    • Read-only plant interfaces
    • Safety-critical action boundary
    • Full audit

What a pilot measures

Each pilot measures 2 to 3 KPIs you already track, before and after. We publish no benefit numbers until a customer has measured them.

  • Gross refining margin ($/bbl)
  • Unplanned downtime
  • Energy intensity
  • Off-spec batches
  • Tank inventory days

Who it is for

  • Refinery director
  • Head of planning & optimisation

Where it stands today

What runs today, and what we are still building.

We would rather tell you up front than discover it in week three. A pilot starts with what runs today.

The platform

  • 01ConnectIngestPartly live
  • 02UnderstandExtractPartly live
  • 03UnifyResolveRoadmap
  • 04RelateModelPartly live
  • 05DecideAskLive
  • 06ExecuteActLive
  • 07TrustGovernPartly live

Still to build for refineries

  • OT/SCADA connectorsLayer 1Read-only connectors to SCADA, DCS historians, PLCs (OPC-UA, Modbus)
  • Time-series/telemetryLayer 1High-volume sensor and machine data, windowing, anomaly baselines
  • Document extractionLayer 2OCR + layout, forms, tables, scanned records, stamps
  • Entity resolution (assets/things)Layer 3Vessels, parts, equipment tags, SKUs, sites across systems
  • Optimization/schedulingLayer 5Berth, crew, production and dispatch planning engines

Live means shipping in the product today. Partly live means part of the layer ships today and the rest is being built. Roadmap means being built and not available yet. We never show it as available.

Book a pilot

One site, one problem, measured in weeks.

Each pilot measures 2 to 3 KPIs you already track, before and after. We publish no benefit numbers until a customer has measured them.