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Re-Energise Profit
Improvement Programme
Upgrade your Profit Improvement
Programme to maximise margin.

SUPERIOR RESULTS. SUSTAINED.

The CHALLENGE
Refresh and re-energise your profit improvement
programme to further improve margin.
Are you truly maximising refinery margins through your existing initiatives?
Do you recognise these barriers to improvement?
■ Ideas not practical or feasible.
■ Sounds a good idea but don’t know the value proposition.
■ We have lots of ideas but struggle to implement.
■ My team seem to resist change.
■ My team tell me we’ve already done this.
■ Benefits are not sustained.
■ Market has changed and not sure if ideas still relevant.

Do you want to re-energise your programme to raise margins?

Refill
■  the pipeline with ideas and/or screen and prioritise ideas to implement
effectively.

As shown below, the big rewards are gained by sustaining in the long term.
Undertake
■  organisational changes to deliver sustainable improvements.
Motivate staff to deliver consistent year-on-year improvements.
■ 

MM$ VALUE PROPOSITION - BENEFIT/COST 10:1

450
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
400
Year 4 Year 5
350 Enabled through highly skilled professionals and
300
IMPLEMENTATION vs SUSTAINABILITY
250

200 For Process Modelling Smart Unified Monitoring

The process simulation platform Management Information
150 for driving excellence in facility The Industry Standard in Toolkit
performance and organisational Kinetic Reactor Simulation SUMMIT downstream metrics are
100 Kinetic reactor models provide a
productivity in hydrocarbon industries. essential for evaluating performance
At the core of Petro-SIM’s technology, rigorous, non-linear simulation of
50 and driving improvement through
rigorous simulation models generate the reaction and key separation the use of defined targets and
0 trusted results in an intelligent, sections of a process unit. Their key performance indicators on a
user-friendly environment for integration into Petro-SIM enables technology platform which also
Yield/SCO OpEx Reliability SUSTAINMENT COST (Cum) upstream, midstream, or downstream scalable modelling from unit level quantifies your “lost opportunity”.
IMPLEMENTATION (Cum) refinery or petrochemical processes. to facility wide simulation.

KBC’s proprietary leading IP and technology.
OpX Applied Best
Practice Database
Comprehensive description of
processes and systems covering the
various levels of the Performance
Management System. Detailed
practices covering all critical OpX
activities. Exhaustive assessment
criteria used to benchmark and
identify gaps as a first step to
organisation improvements.
The SOLUTION
A re-energised Profit Improvement Programme (R-PIP) builds on the existing
profit improvement culture. It will refresh the programme and embed new
work processes to improve prioritisation and implementation and ensure that
of the world’s changes are sustainable.
leading O&G companies includes: Preliminary Opportunity Screening
■  – application of the KBC
have used KBC as their
Trusted Advisor.
Profit Opportunity Screening
Programme on existing idea pipeline. 1 • No Investment
• Minor Investment (€5-€50K)
• Project (> € 50K)
• Low (< €1M/yr)
• Medium (€1M - € 10M/yr)
• High (> €10M/yr)
■  nalyse – Data and experience
A
3
• High Confidence
driven analysis to review where (no study required)
• Further Study Required
improvements are not fully
maximised or sustained.
Refresh – cold eyes reviews and new idea generation facilitated by Subject
■ 
Matter Experts (SMEs).
Prioritise – KBC facilitated workshops to prioritise Profit Improvement
■ 
Opportunities (PIOs).
Plan – Implementation plans of prioritised opportunities.
■ 
Maximise – challenge the design and operating window to get the maximum
■ 
value from your equipment, and best outcome from every Capex money spent.
Sustain – organisational alignment to drive and sustain change; best practice
■ 
work processes and procedures to embed change; tools, methodologies and
training based on KBCs proprietary software to evaluate, track, monitor and
report improvements.
Programme Management Office (PMO)
R-PIP
Data Collection and Management
Accelerated Capability Kickoff
Transfer Identify Fast Track PIOs Identify Wave II PIOs Identify Wave III PIOs
Drawing on Decades of
Activities designed and developed SME
based on leading blended learning
Industry Knowledge Round
concepts and practices. Self
Our experienced consultants Tables Implement and Achieve Tangible Results
provide technical and organisational
discovery and self actualisation that Performance Tracking
solutions in areas such as leadership
promote ownership application of
and management, production
real-world scenarios. Appropriate PIP Process Improvement and Toolkit Optimisation
optimisation, asset integrity,
levels of support and mentoring.
production information and control, Ongoing Support
HSE and human performance
improvement.
Your PARTNER FOR SUCCESS
KBC is a global technology provider and consultancy focused DELIVERY APPROACH
on the hydrocarbon processing industry. With over 35 years’ The KBC approach across all elements of the business
experience in upstream, midstream, downstream, and ensures alignment and maximises synergies.
petrochemicals, we are ready to serve you anywhere and
anytime you need help with meeting your business challenges.
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THINK LIKE AN OPERATOR APPROACH & Business
Excellence
Our experience shows that sustainable improvement is only
possible if accompanied by a change in behaviours in day-to-day Asset

operations. KBC’s track record is second to none in achieving

Optimisation
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TECHNOLOGIES
Cost Margin
Optimisation Maximisation
long term results. Maintain Licence to Operate

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Finding the right, fit-for-purpose solution for our clients is our
area of expertise and we back up our solutions with methodical
diagnostics, the deep industry knowledge of our consultants
and leading technologies. Many of these solutions require no
investment so can be implemented to deliver returns quickly.
KBC IS FOCUSED ON SAFETY
At KBC, we believe that there is no task so important or so urgent
either in our business, or our customers’ businesses, that it
overrides the need to work safely.
Our approach lays out a clear direction with defined processes
and measured outcomes.
DELIVERY FRAMEWORK
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organisational and technology elements are embedded in our
Project Management Office (PMO). Every project is planned
in appropriate phases to ensure proper definition of the issue,
discover the business background and develop detailed
solutions that deliver the desired results, as well as ensuring
that they can be sustained in the long term.

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