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petroleum blendingComprehensive and Flexible Liquids Blending Functionality

Allegro’s Petroleum Blending 8.1 component provides comprehensive and flexible functionality for the creation of blending plans for refined products, creating and maintaining run-out schedules, blending heavy crude products and capturing all associated fees.

The component provides the ability to define blending plans for specific locations and blending recipes, and the ability to develop run-out schedules, allowing users to forecast blend processes, anticipate market requirements and create what-if scenarios. This functionality includes the ability to capture product transport schedules and create and maintain tank transfers to calculate and value daily tank inventories.   Additionally, the component can determine the percentage and quantity required to blend heavy crude oil to lighter densities to meet pipeline carrier maximum density standards.

Key Feature Key Benefit

Create petroleum blending plans

  • Define product blends for a specific location, along with the associated tanks, product inputs and outputs, and factors for the blend recipe
 Provides users  the flexibility to create custom-tailored blending plans specific to the needs of their locations

Create Petroleum Run-out schedules

  • Capture product transport schedules
  • Create and maintain daily run-out schedules
  • Create and maintain tank transfers
  • Calculate and value daily tank inventories

Users are able to forecast anticipated market requirements, plan blending processes to meet those requirements, and create what-if scenarios to optimize those processes

Capture Petroleum Blend Actuals
  • Capture actual production blend and tank transfer quantities and qualities
  • Un-allocate actual blend and transfer quantities
  • Add measurement-specific fees

The ability to capture actual quantities and fees provides  accurate, real-time data for calculations and reporting

Heavy Crude Blending
  • Define heavy crude blend product for a specific location and carrier
  • Calculate diluents requirements for the blend
  • Create the heavy crude blend of the diluents and the dry volume
  • Maintaining the heavy crude blend
  • Capture actual blend quantities
  • Capture blend fees
 Provides users the flexibility to create the optimum heavy crude blends needed to meet the requirements and standards for specific locations and carriers