With 30+ years of experience and expertise, OMS provides the oil and gas consulting services to downstream refining industry for its offsite operations management and automation. These refinery oil and gas consulting services include the following but are not limited to:
- Site visit to review its operational practices and automation systems
- Analysis of blends data (one-year worth data recommended) to estimate lost benefits in qualities giveaways and recommend strategies to capture those lost benefits
- Bench-mark the refinery’s state of fuels blending system by calculating two indices, Automation Effectiveness, and Operational Efficiency. Click here for information on this offer from OMS.
- Review of FEED for blending upgrade project and recommend changes to optimize the benefits from the upgrade project. Click here for more information.
- Review the suitability of blending models (linear vs non-linear) and optimizes (linear vs non-linear) used the refinery’s fuels blending system levels. Click here for more information.
- Identify the sources of blending errors for excessive reblends and giveaways and recommend strategies to minimize them. Click here for more information.
- Develop a master plan study document
OMS can conduct detailed master plan studies for the following systems:
- Tanks Farm Management
- Integrated Fuels Blending control, optimization and scheduling system
- Oil movement and Storage System
- Hydrocarbon Management (HM) system for the oil loss reconciliation
- Integrated Refinery Information System (IRIS)
Please click here for OMS webinars on above topics for more information.
Please click here for OMS white papers on the above topics.
OMS has expertise and experience to custom develop applications for the automation of upstream and downstream processes using
- VB6, .net framework, SQL Databases
- FORTRAN
- MS Office products (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Visio) and VBA applications
- Third Party ActiveX components, COM/DCOM
- Mathematical Programming (LP/NLP)
- Mathematical multi-variable, non-linear regression systems
- Open source graphical packages

Please click here to view some of our project profiles involving custom developments using above modules and systems.
OMS can provide management services for your refining automation upgrade project. We use industry standard methodology “Project Delivery Framework (PDF)” to manage your project. This methodology divides the project in four phases, namely
- Project Initiation
- Project Planning
- Project Execution
- Project Monitoring and Control
Various Activities under each of above phases are shown in the following diagram.

Please click here to read few project profiles that OMS had executed using this methodology.
The automation of refinery offsite operations requires the integration of many components, systems and interfaces in order to commission a fully integrated automation system. OMS and can integrated and interface the following systems to commission integrated fuels blending control, optimization and scheduling system, Tanks farm management, etc.
- Tanks Inventory Information System and tanks gauging system
- DCS based Regulatory Blend Control (RBC), online/offline blend controls and Optimization Systems
- Oil Movement Management and Control Systems
- Mass Reconciliation Systems such as Sigmafine (PIMSoft), MAB (Invensys)
- Interface with Blending optimization with Excel VBA and third party software
- Interfaces with plant database to data access into various modules and systems

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OMS offers the following oil and gas training and education programs for the refinery offsite operation staff for their continuing education to enhance their skills and keep up-to-date with ging technology. These oil and gas educational training programs are designed for new hires, experienced staff, and management to improve refinery efficiency with knowledge and information.
- Strategic training courses offer online-house) and offsite scheduled courses and online webinars on selected topics. Click here for a list of past and future scheduled courses.
- Self-paced study manuals are available for downloadable purchase. Click here for a list of manuals.
- Online courses and e-learning. Click here
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