Refinery Calculator

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Integrated Data Ecosystem

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Global Refinery Intelligence Partner

We provide fundamental supply side refinery operations intelligence by incorporating many live fed data feeds for crude and product traders, marketers, benchmarkers, analysts and curiosity seekers !

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Intel Crude Oil

  • We map water borne crude flows and utilize research to map domestic crudes to each refinery in the world.
  • 2000 Crudes in Our Library
  • We update our Crude Assays annually.

Intel Refinery Operations

  • Real Time Outages
  • Real Time Capacities
  • Real Time Configurations
  • Real Time Unit Health States.

Intel Carbon & Hydrogen

  • Carbon Emissions for Each Refinery Process Unit
  • Total Carbon Emissions for each Refinery
  • Grey, Blue and Green H2 Project Tracking
  • H2 Pricing Intel

Intel Refinery Advanced Analytics

  • Full heat and mass balanced optimized simulations
  • Engine Mode Optimization Results for each Refinery in less than < 16 seconds

Intel Refined Products

  • All Major Fuel Types
  • Gasoline
  • Diesel
  • Heating Oil
  • Fuel Oil
  • Light End Gases
  • Intermediates
  • Jet
  • Lubes.

Refinery Calc Intel Answers

We provide Answers to the worlds toughest refining operations problems.

  • What is the lost yield and margin as a result of a particular process unit being shut down?
  • What is the average crude runs for all US Refineries?
  • What are avg. global refining margins?
  • What is the total distillate production in China?

Refinery Calc In a Nutshell

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With one button click users can utilize an “apple-like” intuitive user interface to run all global refineries in the world

We provide fundamental supply side refinery operations intelligence for crude and refined products traders

Within seconds users obtain powerful refining intelligence such as:

  • Product Yields
  • Refinery Margins
  • Unit Operational Status
  • Pinch Points
  • Other valuable data

Use our ecosystem and technology to understand Refineries ESG metrics such as:

  • Carbon Emissions
  • Water Usage
  • Hydrogen consumption type (grey, blue or green)

We provide Refining Intel Solutions and High Quality Data !

Use our API to automate and digitize your data feeds. We provide output data in

  • json
  • csv
  • xls

Our refinery operations ecosystem pulls in live data feeds from Vortexa and General Index that cover:

  • Unit Off-line events
  • Plant Turn Arounds
  • Crude Pricing
  • Refined Products Pricing
  • Crude Slates
  • Crude Runs
  • Labor costs

Explore Our Data Rich Ecosystem

Crude Movement Intel

“The RC Refining Research Intel Team obtains live intelligence around global crude oil operations that is fed into the powerful Refinery Calc engine.

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  • Wellhead
  • Tankers
  • Terminals
  • Pipes flow crude Intel

Crude Composition


Use Defaults
Current Total: 100%
Light Crude
Allocation
Hibernia
Api: 35.01
Sulfur: 0.45
%
Intermediate Crude
Allocation
Hibernia
Api: 35.01
Sulfur: 0.45
%
Intermediate Crude
Allocation
Hibernia
Api: 35.01
Sulfur: 0.45
%
Intermediate Crude
Allocation
Hibernia
Api: 35.01
Sulfur: 0.45
%
Heavy Crude
Allocation
Hibernia
Api: 35.01
Sulfur: 0.45
%

We map the crude diets to each Global Refinery in the world – using our Research !

Crude Oil Pricing Intel

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We use proven and sophisticated benchmark pricing methodologies from established partners such as General Index

Crude Prices

Price (USD)
Frieght (USD)
Mars
$
$
LLS
$
$
HLS
$
$
LLS
$
$
Mars
$
$

Pricing is fed into the Refinery Calc Platform via API feed for ease of use

Refinery Operations Intel

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The RC Refining Research Intel Team tracks REAL TIME:

  • Outages
  • Plant Turn Arounds
  • Configurations
  • Derates
  • Expansions
  • Future Capacity Additions

Crude Prices

Status
Capacity
Bias (+/-)
Total Capacity
Alky
0
0
Aromatics
16,000
16,000
Asphalt
0
0
CDU 2
200,000
0
Reformer 2
37,000
0
Reformer 3
35,000
0
SDA
0
0
Sulf Tons
200
200
Visbreaker
0
0

This outage information is fed directly into the Refinery Calc Engine in REAL TIME !

Real Time Refined Product Pricing Intelligence

Utilize our product pricing from our pricing providers or insert your own!

Product Prices

Product
Units
Pricing (USD)
Alkylate
$ / gallon
Asphalt
$ / gallon
Benzene
$ / gallon
Butane
$ / gallon
Coke
$ / 1000 lb
Cumene
$ / gallon
Gas Oil
$ / gallon
H2 Fuel
$ / mscf
H2 Product
$ / mscf
Heating Oil
$ / gallon
Product
Units
Pricing (USD)
Heavy Fuel Oil
$ / gallon
MSFO
$ / gallon
LSFO
$ / gallon
Kerosene
$ / gallon
Lubes
$ / gallon
Product
Units
Pricing (USD)
Methanol
$ / gallon
MTBE
$ / gallon
Naphtha
$ / gallon
Natural Gas
$ / mmbtu
Pitch
$ / gallon
Product
Units
Pricing (USD)
Premium Gasoline
$ / gallon
Propane
$ / gallon
Refinery Gas
$ / mmbtu
Regular Gasoline
$ / gallon
Sour Diesel
$ / gallon
Sour Gas Oil
$ / gallon
Sour Resid
$ / gallon
Sulfur
$ / 1000 lb
Toluene
$ / gallon
Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel
$ / gallon
Xylene
$ / gallon

Real Time Refined Product Pricing Intelligence

Advanced Features

Purchase VGO (MB):
Reid Vapor Pressure (psi):
Carbon Penalty ($/ton):
Hydrogen Options
Type
% Composition
Price ($/kg)
Grey:
Blue:
Green:

Use our Hydrogen Calc platform to understand Global Hydrogen Pricing.

Hydrogen Balance

We produce global Refining Hydrogen Intelligence !

BEST in Class Refinery Yields and Margins !

Simulation Reporting

We Use Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics to track the real time operational health state of every refinery unit in the world !

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Insightful Info graphics to help users understand results.

Powerful API Wrapper

RefineryCalc provides seamless API for interchanging data between your application and our server

C# API Integration C#
Java API Integration Java
Python API Integration Python
Javascript API Integration Javascript
class RefineryCalc :
    def __init__(self):
        config = Configuration()
        config.api_key = os.environ[" RefineryCalc_Api_Key "]
        config.host = os.environ[" RefineryCalc_Api_Url "]
        self.__apiClient = ApiClient (configuration = config,
            header_name = " x-api-key ", header_value = config.api_key)
        self.api = SimulationsApi (self.__apiClient)

Data Rich Ecosystem

We use a proprietary algorithm to determine each global refinery unit’s real time operational health status and we update this data Real Time.

Our analytics incorporates:
  • Real time unit outage information
  • Historical plant turn around cycle data
  • Historical unit off line event data
  • Real time research and intel
This allows USERs to produce best in class
  • Dynamic product Yields
  • Real time margins
  • Real time energy usage
  • Emissions data
  • Hydrogen Intel
Select Unit Health State:
Unit
Health State
Distillate Hydrotreater
Fluid Cat Cracker
Gasoline Hydrotreater
Gasoil Hydrotreater
Hydrocracker
Resid Hydrocracker
Kerosene Hydrotreater
Lube Oils
Naphtha Hydrotreater
Reformer
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Our Core End Users

The Refinery Calculator Team is here to serve and create value for many types of end users. Feel free to use our proprietary tool or reach out to us for your very own custom solution, data base or report.

Marketers & Traders

Perform Crude oil valuation analysis, Generate Global Yields and Margins, Determine Crude and Refined Product supply balances, Analyze the Impact of refinery shutdowns and many other scenarios

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Refining Companies

Use the Refinery Calculator for evaluating unit expansions, performing economic cases, improving the overall process, benchmarking competitive ...

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Midstream Companies

Gain valuable understanding of the Gross Product Worth of your blended grade of crude oil and insights into crude flows.

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Sustainability Experts

Enhance sustainability initiatives with Refinery Calc advanced analytics ...

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Asset Managers

We provide asset managers with invaluable insights and tools to mitigate risk, gain market insight, engage in strategic planning, and gain competitive ...

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Oil Producers

Obtain valuable Hydrogen and oxygen (indirectly) demand intel, Understand a refiner's required over the fence purchases, Gain insight into the hydrogen intensity per barrel for each refinery, and determine total hydrogen break-even price values, Spot hydrogen pricing values and scenarios ...

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Our Core End Users

The Refinery Calculator Team is here to serve and create value for many types of end users. Feel free to use our proprietary tool or reach out to us for your very own custom solution, data base or report.

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New Products & Developments

We are constantly innovating and providing additional value streams for our customers and clients !

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Ask “RC”

White glove concierge digital intelligence service with our very own AI Digital Assistant. Ask RC about yields, margins, crude runs, emissions, hydrogen intel for any global/regional/PADD or individual refinery around the world.

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Hydrogen Calc

Equips users with the ability to model hydrogen production costs. Empowers users with global hydrogen intel that includes: new projects, global spot pricing trends, outages, refining hydrogen intensity and carbon emissions.

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Petro Calc

From Steam Crackers, BTX, Polymer processes etc. we model all global facilities to allow users to produce ‘heat and mass’ governed optimized results in the form of : spreads, margins, energy, emissions, yields for the Petro Products market intel community.

Who We Are

We Are a Global Producer of Refining Operational Intelligence Using Our Proprietary Optimization Technology

EXPERIENCE

Our team has a combined 100+ years of Refining, Petrochemical and Industrial Gas operational knowledge

TRUSTED PARTNERS

We have forged powerful alliance agreements with Vortexa(100% of their data), General Index for pricing and Microsoft revolutionary Cloud based Services

OUR TECHNOLOGY

Utilizes proprietary algorithms, yields, correlations that have been successfully benchmarked against some of the world’s largest refineries with highly accurate results.

OUR VALUE PROPOSITION

We exist to serve our customers and help them derive value from our technology and services. We are dedicated, loyal and thankful for all of our customers!

OUR TEAM

We are humble, yet confident. We believe in the pursuit of excellence and in the spirit of continuous improvement. We actively listen and solicit for feedback to get better each day.

OUR CULTURE

Highly ethical organization with superior integrity making up the foundation of who we are. We wake up each day trying to make a positive difference in the world.

Frequently Asked Questions

Got questions? We’ve got answers. Explore our comprehensive FAQ section to find quick and helpful solutions to all your queries.
GENERAL QUESTION
How many refineries are in the Refinery Calculator database?

We have just about 700 refineries configured in our database. Users can currently select all US and Canadian complex refineries (simple upgrader refineries require a special case run from a customer support staff member). For other refineries please contact a representative at Refinery Calc for further assistance.

How fast is a typical simulation?
On average the Refinery Calculator can simulate, optimize and provide the end user with a report within 22 seconds !
Can I purchase or license the Refinery Calculator?
Anything is possible, but why would you want to pay $$$,$$$ for a complicated refinery modeling software package and deal with the headaches of constant updates, training, yearly maintenance costs. Our approach is to simplify software for the user and provide you with the data from the tool at a fraction of the price.
What if I am not happy with my simulation results?
The team at Refinery Calc strives to provide the best customer user experience possible. We believe in continuous improvement and are constantly upgrading our products and services to better serve our customers. Refineries are complicated and although our product is simple to use, there are some configurations that users can come up with that can produce an error message (meaning that the refinery configuration is unfeasible). With any issue that you may have we kindly ask that you reach out to a customer support staff member via email.
How many refineries can a user pick and simulate at one time?
With an engine mode license users can select and run every refinery in the world in a couple of hours. With a standard mode license users can select up to 5 refineries at a time and simulate all 5 using different attributes for each refinery run. Also, the user can select the same refinery and run 5 different scenarios for each of the selected refineries (i.e. crude prices, product prices, crude types, cut points,…).
Can I insert my own model assumptions?
Yes, each user is able to utilize the standard assumptions the Refinery Calculator tool is pre-configured for or over ride those with user defined assumptions by simply typing in the information in the correct cells. We limit user selections to crude types, changes to the refinery configuration (on/off and +/- bias capacity), cut point adjustments, crude pricing and product pricing.
Does the Refinery Calculator use proprietary information from refiners?
No we use only publicly available information for our Refinery Calculator toolset and databases. However, we do allow users to customize each model run, so if the user has specific information for their refinery simulation they are able to insert the information and perform their custom simulation. Further, the Refinery Calc team is always there to help and offer support. We can create a specific custom solution and allow the user to insert advanced refinery unit information as well.
What is the functional purpose of Dashboard Live?
Great question ! Refinery Calc’s Dashboard Live for subscription holders allows our customers to be able to obtain (close to real time) information about nearly every refinery in the world. Yes, we run/simulate/update each major refinery in our database and at the Country Level to provide key information such as: Product Yields, Net Cash Margins, Refinery Utilization, Energy Usage, Sustainability Metrics and Industrial Gas Metrics. We perform the analysis for our customers and provide daily updates – again saving you time and money.
PRICE & SUBSCRIPTION
How Often Are Prices Updated?
The product prices are updated multiple times per day. If you need to know the price now, just click on the Update Now button while configuring the parameters for the calculator.
Does the Refinery Calc team sell reports and other Information?
Yes, for customers who would like their own custom reports created for them the Refinery Calc team can create a Custom Solution for you. We can run the refinery simulations for you and provide you with an excel spreadsheet and/or downloadable report at whatever frequency you desire to receive the information. Please contact a support member for pricing or fill out the form on the “Contact Us” page.
Refund Policy
We strive to provide 100% satisfaction to all of our users. We value all of our customers and kindly ask that each customer utilize the 1 Day Free Trial option to make sure they are satisfied with the product prior to using it. We can not offer a refund once a subscription is purchased. The subscriptions for simulation usage provides the user with the ability to use the simulator. All sales are final once purchased.
What are the Subscription Options?
The refinery calc team provides its members with ‘pay-as-you-go’, weekly, monthly and yearly membership options. Please select the “Pricing” page link for more information.
Renewal of Subscription or Cancellation
To make things easy as possible for our customers, your credit card will be automatically charged to renew your subscription. If you want to turn off this feature please contact support@refinerycalc.com (to cancel).
PROCESS & SIMULATION
Does Refinery Calc have every Refinery Configuration for over 700 refineries?
Refinery calc utilizes public information, refinery operations experience and refinery operations intelligence to formulate configurations for most refineries. There is not a perfect refinery database in the world that keeps up with every daily refinery configuration for each refinery in the world. The Refinery Calc team allows the users to modify any refinery configuration and users can even create a custom refinery.
How Often Are Crude Prices Updated?
Crude prices are updated about every eight hours using correlations from Brent and WTI to calculate (or approximate) what other crude prices cost. Users can enter in there own crude price assumptions and run the calculator.
What causes my simulation to "time out"?
There are several scenarios that can lead to unfeasible solutions that will in turn cause the calculator to time out. We caution users to be careful when shutting down various refinery process units. As an alternative, try reducing the capacity of the particular unit down to 100 bpd or a very small number instead of to 0 bpd and then re run the simulation. Some scenarios depending on the complexity of it can take longer than usual or can simply time out.
Why did my simulation produce an erroneous result when I shutdown a particular refinery process unit?
The Refinery Calc team has provided users with the ability to shutdown various process units per simulation. However, some resulting refinery configurations are simply not practical. If you encounter an erroneous result, please contact a member of the Refinery Calc team for assistance.
What is the difference between "Fixed" and "Optimized" mode?
When using the powerful Refinery Calc engine a user can select to run the refinery by fixing the crude diet percentages or select “optimized” mode in which, the RC Engine will optimize (choose between) light and/or heavy crudes. In optimize mode, the First Crude Selection is setup for a “light Crude Slate”, the second, third and fourth selections are setup for intermediate crude slate selections, which are fixed and the 5th crude slate selection is reserved for a “heavy” crude. The RC Engine will then optimize amongst the crude slate selections and solve to objective functions: 1.) Max Margin and 2.) Max Crude Throughput. In fixed mode, the RC Engine optimizes the refinery per the criteria above, but does not take into consideration optimization between the light and heavy crude selections (because they are “Fixed” by the user).

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