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Are you a heavy process industry leader getting upward pressure to explore new AI solutions? Are you concerned about your team’s capacity to support evaluating something so now and different? Are you getting 5+ emails a day from vendors talking about how their AI is going to transform the way you work?

One of the most frequently asked questions of closed loop AI optimization providers is “how does this differ from existing real-time optimization tools?” So, the team here at Imubit decided to make the answer simple and readily available to the masses.

One of the most frequently asked questions of closed loop AI optimization providers is “how does this differ from existing real-time optimization tools?” So, the team here at Imubit decided to make the answer simple and readily available to the masses.

Imubit’s Optimizing Brain™ is enabling refiners and petrochemical manufacturers to accelerate decarbonization goals. By Allison Buenemann, Imubit Product Marketing Manager We just wrapped up an exciting week at Euro Petroleum Consultants’ Energy & Sustainability Forum in Madrid. Imubit Economic Engineer Dennis Rohe delivered a session focused on the role of AI optimization technologies in accelerating […]

Recently, some of the world’s largest refiners and petrochemical producers gathered in Houston to discuss the latest advancements in AI process optimization. Engineers and executives from Chevron, HF Sinclair, Big West Oil, CVR Energy, and others shared real-world results of using the Imubit Optimizing Brain™ approach to achieve a 15-30% reduction in energy usage…

At the heart of the energy industry’s most significant challenges lies complexity, testing plants’ ability to digitally transform and achieve sustainability goals. This complexity contributes to the perception among next-generation talent that the industry is undesirable and dangerous to enter…

Executive Summary Over the past two years, the combination of the coronavirus pandemic and a pre-existing push for a shift to renewables has drastically changed the refining economic environment. Specifically, from 2019 to 2022 we have seen: Reduction in operable refining capacity (~1,040k bpd or 5.5%) The return of fuels demand to comparable or higher […]

With tight natural gas supplies globally, expect to see energy and carbon optimization become more significant in plant optimization After taking a month’s holiday from the blog, we are back this month with what has probably been the biggest change in the market – natural gas. It would appear that the age of cheap energy […]

Energy Transition accelerated in EU and USA by Covid-19 resulting in peak Mogas demand, other regions to keep oil demand growing for some time In this month’s economic engineering update, we zoom out for a look at the global supply and demand environment for oil, transportation fuels, and petrochemical feedstocks. The Covid-19 pandemic caused a […]