Oil Industry Supply Chain Research Articles

Supply chain process of olive oil industry

The supply chain in olive oil industry consists of many phases that include olive fruits extraction, processing, packaging, and distribution to consumers. The purpose of this research is to throw the light on olive oil industry supply chain process and its phases prevalent for different countries on the basis of literature. The study identifies important stages with respect to olive oil supply chain process; these are the quality of olive fruits and oil, organising the olive farming systems and throw light on the necessity of consumer's awareness regarding understanding differences in the variety of olive oils. The study likely to help practitioners, researchers, academicians, and managers to get an overview of using multi-criteria decision methods for improving supply chain process of the olive industry.

A Mathematical Programming Approach to Optimize the Scheduling of Tanks in Oil Refineries

This paper presents a Mathematical Programming approach to optimize the scheduling of tanks in oil refineries. The considered problem is part of oil industry supply chain, where decisions are taken in strategic, tactical, and operational levels. The scheduling of tanks is part of the operational level and plays a fundamental role in integrating refinery production and transport operations. In particular, within the real-world studied scenario, a pipeline network is used to transport the derivatives, and the previously determined scheduling of pipelines is used as an input for the proposed model. Thus, the operational constraints and temporal issues from pipelines, which influence the transfer and storage refinery operations, are taken as assumptions within the proposed scheduling model for tanks. The proposed model is structured by a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) formulation with a continuous time representation. The obtained results are evaluated by three main aspects: the respect of time-windows imposed by pipeline operations; by the storage profiles in tanks; and, by computational tests. The obtained results indicate the model's ability to propose a scheduling for refinery tanks that integrates the inherited scheduling of pipelines.

Offshore oil network design with transportation alternatives

Petroleum industry plays a vital role in the modern global economy, owing to the fact that it is the largest source of energy in the world. Design and planning of the oilfield developments have become crucial concerns of the oil industry managers. In addition, crude oil transportation plays a critical role in the global supply chain of oil industry. In this work, we develop a model to design the oilfield development and plan crude oil transportation problems. A mixed integer model is proposed to extend the classical facility location-allocation problems by several features. Additionally, the model supports the selection of the transportation system and the planning of pipeline networks installations. This work ends with two sensitivity analyses. Two one-factor-at-a-time sensitivity analyses have been done with respect to the length of the planning horizon and the number of potential wells.

The Analysis and Discussion about Green Supply Chain Management of Oil Industry in China

This paper analyzes the problems in the supply chain of oil industry, proposes a model of the green supply chain of oil industry, and uses a case to illustrate the application of the green supply chain management of oil industry. The process consists of: green raw material, green exploitation, green store, green transportation, green sale, green consumption, green return ,green recycling and green disposal. It is proved well in application.