Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 22 views

    Maros Flier Tcm8 56542

    Uploaded by

    Anonymous dl8PVc
    filter

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved

    Maros Flier Tcm8 56542

    Uploaded by

    Anonymous dl8PVc
    22 views2 pages
    filter

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    filter

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    22 views2 pages

    Maros Flier Tcm8 56542

    Uploaded by

    Anonymous dl8PVc
    filter

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    You are on page 1of 2

    SAFER, SMARTER, GREENER

    © xxx
    SOFTWARE

    MAROS
    Powerful RAM analysis tool tailored for the upstream oil and gas industry
    A successful design configuration, profitable operation and maintenance strategy relies on a clear
    understanding on how to quantify and fully optimise productivity factors.

    ■■ Return on investment ■■ Usable


    Maros™ allows users to include financial aspects to perform The Maros interface and reports are designed to be intuitive
    cost/benefit analysis to investigate different design alternatives. and useful to industry professionals focusing on representing
    reality in the most recognisable way possible.
    ■■ Optimising
    Identification of critical events in the system and quantification ■■ Long experience
    of system constraints allow users to optimise the design. Maros has been developed for 30 years to solve problems
    faced by our consultants working with major companies world-
    ■■ Extensive wide. Continuous efforts into addressing industry specific
    The simulator allows users to capture a wide range of condi- problem have made Maros uniquely well suited for the up-
    tions and configurations, such as flaring and time varying flow stream oil and gas industry.
    rates, to accurately model real life systems.
    ■■ Extendable
    ■■ Flexible Maros can be run through scripts and have results exported
    The simulator allows users to set up very complex configura- to different output formats, allowing users to create highly
    tions using powerful Boolean logic. customised input structures and to post-process and present
    the results in any imaginable way.
    Predicting the performance KEY FEATURES OF MAROS

    ■■ Discrete event driven simulation - a very powerful platform


    ■■ Extensive flow modelling capability
    ■■ Highly intuitive graphical user interface - asset view, reliability
    block diagram view, table views and symbol view

    © Statoil
    ■■ Highly intuitive graphical user-interface - asset view, reliability
    block diagram view, grid views and symbol view
    ■■ Well management with phase-in and phase-out capability
    ■■ Reservoir/production profiles for up to ten products including
    production rates - access/Excel import facility
    ■■ Demand and boosting profiles to control flow during
    compensation operations
    ■■ Compensation mechanisms (boosting, line packing, storage, third
    Maros™ is an advanced RAM tool with party substitution)
    extensive features for modelling networks, ■■ Storage tanks defined as feed, intermediate and export assets
    maintenance, operations and demand ■■ Storage tank operating rules such as called-up, suppress bulk
    scenarios that allows users to make the right transport and event-triggering
    ■■ Bulk transport modelling with modelling constraints related to
    decisions for maximum return on investment. berths, storage tanks and ship availability
    ■■ Ships defined by size, frequency, probability of delay, travel time
    Predicting the performance of a system throughout its life is a
    ■■ Planned events with Gantt chart view to easily assess overlaps
    complex task. Processes rarely remain constant over their
    ■■ Unplanned events with more than ten different failure and repair
    design life as production capacity changes, products and distributions
    process conditions change. Likewise, new technologies ■■ Conditional logic - powerful Boolean logic enables most
    continually offer opportunities to improve the efficiency of operational scenarios to be modelled
    the system. Add to this the complex nature of dependencies ■■ Operability factors modelled such as process re-starts and
    and constraints in equipment configuration and maintenance production ramping
    found in large scale upstream oil and gas systems, and the ■■ Extensive flaring analysis (Governmental type restrictions and
    impacts, i.e. South America, Gulf of Mexico and North Sea)
    challenges of finding a successful design and efficient
    – multiple flare units with different bottlenecks
    operating procedure are evident.
    ■■ Operations & Maintenance (O&M) modelling with resources
    constraints
    Maros predicts the performance of a system using simulation ■■ Spares optimisation analysis
    techniques. An “Event-Driven” algorithm is used to create ■■ Life-cycle cost analysis with revenue calculation based on
    life-cycle scenarios of the system under investigation probabilistic estimate of production, discount factor, capital
    accounting for its reliability, maintainability and operating expenditure and operational expenditure
    policies. The simulator is inherently incorporated with a ■■ Multi-criticality level indicating production loss related to
    operations and equipment, system and unit reliability
    specially designed algorithm to analyse the impact of each
    ■■ Interactive graphical and tabular output with drill-down facility
    individual scenario on how the system performs.
    ■■ Extendable and easy to manipulate set of results
    ■■ Results viewer application exported, no need for license
    By studying performance results and how they respond to
    ■■ Production efficiency/ production availability
    altering specific parameters in the design or its logistics, it is
    ■■ Plant/unit statistics and utilisation
    possible to optimise the system with respect to given
    ■■ Multi-customer contract shortfalls analysis (size and frequency)
    constraints.
    ■■ Plant shutdown analysis (size and frequency)

    By considering key parameters, for example, well e.g. branch ■■ Powerful multi-product dynamic animation

    flows, product ratios and export operation constraints, accurate ■■ Multi-core processing for fast calculation performance

    estimations of production efficiency can be determined. ■■ Batch run - to run multiple studies using each core of the multicore
    processor, suitable for Sensitivity Analysis
    ■■ Automation scripting (Excel Macro support)
    The simulation package can capture all the inter-related
    para-meters that have an impact on system performance.

    DNV GL AS, software@dnvgl.com, www.dnvgl.com/software Version 09.02.16

    You might also like