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Have you seen the pictures from past conferences?
General News
MUG 2008 - Location and Dates Announced
GRTMPS 4.3, Service Pack 2
(OMNISuite 3)GRTMPS 4.3, SP2 is available for download. To learn more about enhancements included in this update, login to Tech Support and select the 'Software Updates', 'GRTMPS' and then 'What's New'. For more information, contact . If your company has a current support agreement for GRTMPS, you can obtain a TechSupport login name and password by contacting the WebMaster. (17Apr08)
MUGI 2008, Zagreb, Croatia - Technical Presentations
The technical papers have been posted and are viewable by those with a current support agreement. Login to Tech Support and select the knowledge base "Conference Papers".
If your company has a current support agreement for Haverly software, you can obtain a TechSupport login name and password by contacting the WebMaster
(17Apr08)
MUGI Zagreb, Croatia - Photos
Thank you to Magnus Larsson, Egon Schmid, Marilyn Kuntz and Rahul Sinha for sharing your outstanding photos.
Updated with additional photos contributed by Hamid Belkrezia and Martha Venard.
Do you take pictures? Send them to Randy Bozarth. (21Apr08)
Seminar: Speaking LP
ERTC Asset Maximisation Conference
Lisbon, Portugal, 12 May, 2008
Prior to the start of the ERTC Conference, Haverly Systems will conduct a full day seminar entitled "Speaking LP" at the Corinthia Hotel, Lisbon, 12 May 2008. This seminar is free of charge and open to all who wish to learn about the basics of Linear Programming and its role in the petroleum refining industry.
For more information or to register for the seminar, click here. (29Jan08)
Haverly Systems Software Showcased in
College of Petroleum and Energy
Haverly Systems is providing support to the Oxford Princeton Program's College of Petroleum and Energy Studies courses "The Synergies of Refining, Trading and Supply" and "Technical, Commercial and Operational Aspects of Oil Refining".
H/CAMS, H/COMET and G4 will be used in these courses to demonstrate how sophisticated software and technology is needed to deal with the challenges encountered in this complex and competitive business.The next course will be in London on November 26-30. See www.oxfordprinceton.com for further course details and dates. (08Nov07)
MUG Santa Fe, New Mexico - Photos!
You took them and they get better every year. Thanks to all that contributed.
Click here to view the photos from MUG 2007.
(updated 16Nov07)
MUG Santa Fe, New Mexico - Technical Papers are Posted
The technical papers have been posted and are viewable by those with a current support agreement. Login to Tech Support and select the knowledge base "Conference Papers".
If your company has a current support agreement for Haverly software, you can obtain a TechSupport login name and password by contacting the WebMaster.
(17Oct07)
Turner, Mason & Company’s Refinery Modeling Platform
is Now Available in Haverly’s LP System
Haverly Systems and Turner, Mason & Company have announced an alliance to make the Turner Mason Modeling System (TMMS) available to all users of Haverly's G4 refinery LP modeling System. TMMS allows its users to quickly develop models by merely specifying what operations are present at the subject refinery and supplying the necessary operating parameters.
More information. (18Sep07)
Truths to Live By
- Integrity is the foremost essential in business and in personal relationships.
- Hitch your wagon to a star. Value your associations with achievers. Time spent with laggards is time wasted.
- Common sense is more valuable than a high IQ.
- Even the least of us has qualities to be envied. When making new acquaintances, search for these traits and let them not go unnoticed.
- Sincere compliments are always appreciated.
- People are fundamentally interested in themselves. Acknowledge this to gain new friends.
- Self-deprecation is sometimes a valuable tool for gaining acceptance.
- Volunteering to help others or promoting justifiable causes have their just rewards.
- One cannot learn while talking.
- Frugality pays valuable dividends. Waste not – want not.
- Speak ill of no one.
- Procrastinating a chore is like pouring fresh cement: As time goes by, it gets harder each day.
- Kindness and empathy are perpetually admired.
- People are sharply divided by their ability or willingness to view situations from other points of view.
- Kindness and empathy are perpetually admired.
- Humility cannot be over-valued.
- The effects of alcohol consumption, good and bad, may be debatable, but excessive use is damaging to body and spirit. Alcohol used as a crutch to bridge difficult or trying situations is a dangerous device. There are more constructive ways to resolve frustrations.
- Adventurous, creative pursuits often deserve serious consideration.
- Lastly, be not unduly disturbed by trifles or accidents that are common or unavoidable.
- Joel Snyder to his grandson upon his graduation from university.
Haverly Systems announces H/Gal-XE
H/Gal-XE - new!
Generalized, off-the-shelf gasoline blending softwareH/Gal-XE combines blend optimization and automatic scheduling to give not only the optimal recipe but the time, volume, tank selection and event schedule for each blend over whatever future period you want (up to 90 days). H/Gal-XE scheduling combines meeting liftings while avoiding component overflow. The system includes many options for gasoline blending, multi-grades, seasonal transition, recognition of laboratory operating hours, octane and percent off estimation, ethanol blending, batch vs header sites, CARB calculation, and much more. The generalized nature facilitates fast installation and maintenance by the clients. (19Apr2007)
To arrange a demonstration, contact Ken Spencer (973-627-1424) or Dean Trierwiler (713-776-3161).
MUGI Athens, Greece - Technical Papers are Posted
The technical papers for MUGI-Athens and previous conferences (MUG, MUGI, MUGA) are available online to clients with a current support agreement. Login to Tech Support and select the knowledge base "Conference Papers". If your company has a current support agreement for Haverly software, you can obtain a TechSupport login name and password by contacting the WebMaster.
Did you take pictures at MUGI? Can we post them? Contact the WebMaster.
(30Apr07)
Seminar: Planning and Scheduling Decision Technology
ERTC Asset Maximisation Conference
Rome, Italy, 21 May, 2007
Dean Trierwiler (Haverly Systems, Houston) will conduct a pre-conference seminar at the ERTC Asset Maximisation Conference (Rome, Italy). This seminar is free of charge and open to all who wish to learn about the basics of these technologies.
HSI has record year
HSI has completed a record year ending June 30, 2006. It was a record in sales, a record in earnings and a record in profit sharing. But it was also a year of many technology advances for the benefit of our users.
We thank our many loyal users who encourage and advise us and who make such good use of our products and service. Thank you, thank you. (7Jul06)
Ken Spencer now Executive VP
Ken has been promoted to Executive Vice President. He will have added responsibilities for operating details as well as continuing as the chief Sales executive. (7Jul06)
PDVSA - Corporate Wide H/CAMS, Chevron Library and H/COMET
We are pleased to announce that PETRÓLEOS DE VENEZUELA S.A. (PDVSA) selected HAVERLY SYSTEMS to implement a corporate wide crude assay data management system for PDVSA and Citgo Refining.
PDVSA required a comprehensive solution that would make crude data available to its refineries and headquarter locations in Venezuela, Citgo's refining operations in the United States and PDVSA's European operations in London.
The solution they selected consists of Haverly's H/CAMS Crude Assay Management System, Chevron's Worldwide Crude Assay Library, and Haverly's H/COMET internet based Crude Oil Management Evaluation Tool.
With the Haverly solution, crude assay data will be available on a corporate server that can be accessed by various groups with differing needs. These would include planners and engineers requiring detailed assay data for use with their LP and Process Simulation systems. Others would include traders and marketers needing to quickly and easily find crudes that meet specified criteria. The system provides a number of valuable functions, including the ability to determine the netback value of crudes for a variety of refinery configurations and the ability to optimize crude blends.
To find out how we may be able to provide similar solutions at your company call Ken Spencer, (973) 627-1424. (17May06)
Worth Reading Again
Some technical papers are timeless. Two older papers have been added to the collection available to those with support contracts. If there are older papers (pre-1999) that you would like to see, contact the WebMaster. If your company has a current support agreement for Haverly software, you can obtain a TechSupport login name and password by contacting the WebMaster.
(13Feb06)
Top 10 Characteristics of a Skilled LP User
Presented by Vince DiVita (Jacobs Consultancy) at MUG 39, Banff, Alberta, Canada. (13Oct05)
Unscathed by infeasibilities or non-convergence issues: A true LP warrior. Few, if any, calls to Haverly for Tech Support; Calling Randy to talk motorcycles, Don to locate shareware, Dean to find downtown Houston discos, or Ken to complain about price increases don't count! Appearances are a dead giveaway; Grey, thinning & often balding hair; Deep, dark cavernous circles under the eyes (Look around the room!). Sneaks out of the office once a week to visit psychiatrist for obsessive, compulsive disorder. At parties, can't carry-on conversations with non-LP people who just don't understand how difficult the LP job really is. While LP is solving, pops Zanex & Prozac, chugs Pepto-Bismal and chews Immodium AD for breath mints. Attends sleep disorder clinic for sleep apnea, only to be diagnosed with nightmares associated with LP vectors. Tells significant other can't go to bed because of work, only to stay up late solving Su Doku puzzles. At the coke machine, won't pay $1.00 for 20 oz coke when the 12 oz coke is $0.50 because it's suboptimal. LP problems actually turn out to be a Haverly BUG!
Thank You Clients for Another Good Year -2005
We thank all our clients. Our mission is to serve you to the best of our ability while enjoying what we do. June 30 marked the 43nd consecutive year that we have made a profit. All the employees have received significant profit sharing bonuses for their fine work and a successful year.
We put emphasis on service and quality. We strive to have the world leading technology in the areas where we focus; namely, refinery planning (GRTMPS - G4), refinery scheduling (H/SCHED) with graphical model builder, crude assay management (H/CAMS), crude netback (H/COMET) and OMNI SUITE.
Our morale is high and we are enthusiastic for the new fiscal year. For the coming year we will keep our active R&D effort going to continue to enhance all our products and services to keep our clients in the forefront of technology. A hot new development involves GRTMPS/G4 recursion toward finding the global optimal. We are having exciting success with real models and a talk is scheduled for MUG.
We invite non-clients to become a part of our client family this year.(7/25/5)
Dean Trierwiler and Mike Steward Published
The article Simulating Optimal Tank Farm Design by Dean Trierwiler (Haverly Systems) and Mike Steward (Jabobs Consultancy) has been published in the April/May/June 2005 issue of Petroleum Technology Quarterly.
(4/27/05)
Thank You Clients for Another Good Year
We thank all our clients. Our mission is to serve you to the best of our ability while enjoying what we do. June 30 marked the 42nd consecutive year that we have made a profit. All the employees have received significant profit sharing bonuses for their fine work and a successful year.
We put emphasis on service and quality. We strive to have the world leading technology in the areas where we focus; namely, refinery planning (GRTMPS - G4), refinery scheduling (H/SCHED), crude assay management (H/CAMS) and OMNI SUITE.
Our morale is high and we are enthusiastic for the new fiscal year. For the coming year we will keep our active R&D effort going to continue to enhance all our products and services to keep our clients in the forefront of technology. We invite non-clients to become a part of our client family this year.(7/8/4)
Trierwiler and DiVita Published
Dean Trierwiler (Haverly Systems) and Vince DiVita (Jabobs Consultancy) were published in the May/June 2004 issue of Hydrocarbon Asia. Their article, The New LP, begins by laying a foundation of history describing how the newest technology has completely changed linear programming. The New LP is described by Trierwiler and DiVita as non-linear without compromise, reliably convergent, and able to perform true cut-point optimization. (7/9/04)
Larry Haverly Published
Larry Haverly has had a chapter published in the Applied Optimization series of book. It is in a book on Modeling Languages. In the chapter, Larry describes the history and power of the OMNI modeling language and the new developments and future direction of support.Larry says, "I see OMNI as still one of the finest and most useful of modeling languages for large, commercial LP type applications. It plays a vital role in our advanced application systems for refinery planning and scheduling." The book is available from Kluwer Academic Publishers, 56 Industrial Park Drive, Pembroke, MA 02359 and lists for $280. (24 May 2004)
Strong Fiscal Year Completed
HSI completed its fiscal year June 30 in good shape. We thank our many clients for your support, suggestions and help.
We continued to have strong sales and good profits. Employees received a major share of the profits. We are blessed with motivated, hard working, talented employees who continue to deliver high quality, world class software and services.
We have kept a strong Research and Development effort to maintain our technology lead. We continue to provide a flow of new and enhanced software. Our fiscal stability assures our clients of long term support from a stable staff of experienced professionals. (7/21/3)
Puzzle
A ball is dropped from a height of 10 feet. It bounces off the floor up to a height of 5 feet. Each successive bounce is half as high as the previous. Assuming the ball moves only vertically, what is the total distance travelled by the ball? (5/12/3)
Humor for Mother's day
An elderly woman and her little grandson, whose face was sprinkled with bright freckles, spent the day at the zoo. Lots of children were waiting in line to get their cheeks painted by a local artist who was decorating them with tiger paws.
"You've got so many freckles, there's no place to paint!" a girl in the line said to the little fella.
Embarrassed, the little boy dropped his head. His grandmother knelt down next to him. "I love your freckles. When I was a little girl always wanted freckles, she said, while tracing her finger across the child's cheek.
"Freckles are beautiful!".
The boy looked up, "Really?"
"Of course," said the grandmother. "Why, just name me one thing that's prettier than freckles."
The little boy thought for a moment, peered intensely into his grandma's face, and softly whispered, "Wrinkles."
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After putting her children to bed, a mother changed into old slacks and a droopy blouse and proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin. At last she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room, putting them back to bed with stern warnings. As she left the room, she heard her three-year-old say with a trembling voice, "Who was THAT?"
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A little girl was diligently pounding away on her mom's word processor. She told her she was writing a story.
"What's it about?" she asked.
"I don't know," she replied. "I can't read."
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A second grader came home from school and said to her mother, "Mom, guess what? We learned how to make babies today."
The mother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool. "That's interesting," she said, "How do you make babies?"
"It's simple," replied the girl. "You just change 'y' to 'i' and add 'es'." (5/7/3)
Previous puzzle (Pick one of 3 doors to open)
Jeff Stanton sent in this solution to the puzzle in which you have to pick one of three doors to open and only one has the prize. If after you pick a door, they open one of the other doors to show it has no prize and then allow you to either keep your original pick or change it, what should you do?
Maybe you think the probability of winning by keeping or by changing your pick is the same 50% but think again.
Jeff writes; "I have another simple way to think of this problem from your News page. When you pick a door, you have a 1/3 chance of being right, and a 2/3 chance of being wrong. When the host opens the other door, the odds don't change. You still have a 1/3 chance of being right, and a 2/3 chance of being wrong. Therefore, you should switch to take a 2/3 chance of being right. Of course, this only works if the host always opens a door and allows you to switch. Later versions of the show didn't always allow contestants to switch, eliminating the advantage." Check all the combinations and you will see this is correct in spite of your intuition. Thanks Jeff. (5/1/3)
Puzzle Answer (How Far does the Ball Travel?):
30 feet. 10 + 2x5x(1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + ....) (5/12/3)
Short Term Modeling with GRTMPS
GRTMPS is widely used as a planning tool doing monthly and longer range planning. It is excellent for determining the best crudes to buy to meet the best product slate within the flexibility of the refinery.
But the same GRTMPS system can be used to do short term, multi-period modeling (STM). The periods might be weeks or a mixture of periods of different lengths. The model might be set up as four week periods to cover a month. Alternatively, the periods could be 4 days, 4 days and balance of the month, for example. An interesting possibility for a refinery receiving a few major multi-crude cargos per month is to define the periods as the time between crude tanker arrivals.
The point is that you can use the standard GRTMPS system and define your short term model as appropriate for your situation. By using a common data base, the development and support effort is greatly reduced and the application becomes practical and economically.
STM GRTMPS can stand between monthly planning and the powerful, advanced scheduling system, H/SCHED (with its own scheduling optimization and schedule generation).
Just as the same GRTMPS system can be used to optimize both the single refineries models and a multi-refinery model of the refineries, so can the same GRTMPS system be used for a both a monthly model and a multi-period short term model.
Add in the new object oriented, user friendly input and the connectivity to process simulators, GRTMPS is simply the best choice for doing a wide range of refinery optimization situations. If you are not using GRTMPS you are not using the latest and best. (4/14/3)
Dr. Yunhui (Fred) Pu of Haverly Systems Publishes Book
Our employee Dr. Yunhui Pu recently published a book with other two authors, Prof. Tianmin Guo and Dr. Wei Yan.
The book named "Multicomponent Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium and Distillation" (ISBN7-5021-3877-3/TE.2807) was published by Petroleum Industry Publishing Company, China in November 2002.
Dr. Yunhui Pu was responsible for the Distillation Algorithm section especially the chapters on bubble and dew point calculation, flash calculation, Inside-Out algorithm, nonequilibrium stage algorithm, and introduction of commercial process simulators. (2/4/03)
Puzzle: The Three Doors
Question: The paradox "Three Doors Problem" is related to a television show in the 70's: Monty Hall's "Let's Make a Deal". In this popular show, a finalist was given a choice of three doors of which only one contains the big prize. Behind the other two doors there was nothing.
After the finalist chose one of the doors, the quizmaster then revealed one "empty door" among the two doors that were not chosen. After that, the quizmaster asked if the finalist would like to switch to the other door to open.
The question: What should you do? Do you open the door you initially chose or do you switch to the other unopened door before? Do the odds of winning the game increase by switching to the remaining door?
This puzzle is responsible for countless arguments among zealous puzzle solvers. Think you know?
Answer: You may be surprised! http://plus.maths.org/issue5/puzzle/solution.html
(12/17/2002)
Humor
Check yourself. Read the questions and answer each immediately. Answers below.
1. You are competing in a race, and overtake the runner in second place. In what position are your now?
2. Try to do better on this one. If you overtake the last runner, what position are you now in?
3. Oh well, maybe you will do better at solving math in your head (no calculators).
. Take 1000. Add 40. Add another 1000. Add 30. 1000 again. Plus 20. Plus 1000 Add plus 10. What is the total?
4. Last chance. Marie's father has five daughters:
1. Chacha
2. Cheche
3. Chichi
4. Chocho
5. ????
What is the fifth daughter's name?
Answers:
1. If you answered that you are in first then you are completely wrong. You overtook the second place runner and now you are second.
2. How can you overtake the last runner. If you are behind then they are not last.
3. 5000??? That's wrong. The correct answer is 4100.
4. Chuchu???? No way. It's obviously Marie. Read the question. (7/17/02)
HSI updates 5 to 10 year Plan
The board of directors have met to update the 5 to 10 year plan for HSI. Some of the key parts are:
1. Continue our strong focus on the successful areas of Refinery Planning, Refinery Scheduling and Crude Assay Data management where we already have the world-best software.
2. Continue to emphasize having the best technology and service and providing it at a fair, reasonable and attractive price.
3. Continue our strong R&D efforts to (a) enhance our products and (b) make sure we remain in the forefront of the evolving technology (including new operating systems and methods).
4. Add qualified staff as warranted by growth of sales and requirements of clients.
5. Reward our staff from the successes of our strong team and individual efforts.
6. Be alert for opportunities to expand our business in productive ways.
Various internal product groups have met at Summit meetings to do more detailed plans for their areas for the next year. The result is that we have lots of exciting new enhancements in the works. We hope all our existing and prospective clients will be pleased with the results and we welcome feedback, ideas and requests at all times. (6/20/2)
Thinking Outside the Box
You are driving along on a wild stormy night. You pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for the bus: 1. An old lady who is very sick. 2. An old friend who once saved your life. 3. The perfect man(or)woman you have been dreaming about.
Which one would you choose, knowing that there could only be one passenger in your car. This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part of a job application.
You could pick up the old lady, because she is sick, and thus you should save her first; or you could take the old friend because he once saved your life, and this would be the perfect chance to pay him back. However, you may never be able to find your perfect dream lover again.
Think before you continue. The candidate who was hired (out of 200 applicants) had no trouble coming up with his answer which is given below. (5/14/2)
Answer to Thinking Outside the Box (5/14/2 problem)
He simply answered: "I would give the car keys to my old friend, and let him take the lady to the hospital. I would stay behind and wait for the bus with the woman of my dreams." (5/14/2)
Trierwiler and Tan published
HSI staff members Dean Trierwiler and Dr. Richard Tan were published in the Nov/Dec 2001 issue of Hydrocarbon Asia. The article is entitled "Advances in Crude Oil LP Modelling". It describes the advantages and details of the Adherent Recursion technique added to the GRTMPS optimization planning system. It also describes the success from close integration of GRTMPS and the H/CAMS crude assay data management system to achieve better non-linear cut point and crude selection optimization. These advances can result in substantial savings to users. (3/10/02)
Larry Haverly Published
The newly published volume of the prestigious Annals of Operations Research includes a chapter written by Larry Haverly. The chapter is titled "Omni Model Management System".
The chapter includes an Introduction to practical model management, a brief history of Omni, the seven steps of the model development cycle for large applications, some details of OMNI and examples of practical applications in Omni. The chapter covers new developments including 16 character Omni and the Omni Graphics extension now widely used in refinery scheduling applications.
This is volume 104 of the Annals which is devoted to "Modeling Languages and Systems". The Editor-in Chief is Dr. Peter L. Hammer and the other editors are Dr. Collette Coullard, Dr. Robert Fourer and Dr. Honathan H. Owens. The publisher is Kluwer Academic Publishers. (2/18/2)
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