Refinery-wise Crude Indifference Values
This section calculates indifference values of all representative crudes for a selected refinery configuration
The demo version includes 30 representative crudes and five standardised refinery configurations — Hydro-Skimming, FCC-Visbreaking, Hydrocracker-Visbreaking, FCC-Coking, and Hydrocracker-Coking — each represented across key global refining regions including Asia, Northwest Europe, and USGC
In the Commercial Model, refinery configurations are modelled with their actual capacities, process units, and operating constraints, and any number of crudes of client choice can be evaluated, enabling fully customised crude valuation and optimisation
Our Crude Oil Price Differentials – Methodology section outlines the framework used to assess price differentials of various crudes to their respective marker crudes, and to derive region-specific product price sets. The framework allows users to modify key default assumptions to understand sensitivity to market conditions.
The demo applications presented here use a consistent set of default assumptions, broadly representative of long-term market trends, to derive crude indifference values. For demonstration purposes, optimisation runs are pre-executed under these representative market conditions to enable instantaneous display and seamless user interaction. In the Commercial Model, the price differentials methodology is fully integrated with the crude indifference valuation framework, and full dynamic optimisation is performed using refinery-specific configurations, capacities, and user-defined market inputs.
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