Strategic and tactical mathematical programming models within the crude oil supply chain context—A review

H Sahebi, S Nickel, J Ashayeri - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
In today's business world, oil companies cannot be productive and competitive, and thus,
will not survive without taking the supply chain management concepts into account …

Evolutionary multi-objective optimization of environmental indicators of integrated crude oil supply chain under uncertainty

A Azadeh, F Shafiee, R Yazdanparast, J Heydari… - Journal of cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
This study presents a multi-objective mathematical model for integrating upstream and
midstream segments of crude oil supply chain in the context of environmental indicators. An …

Operational scheduling of refined products pipeline networks with simultaneous batch injections

DC Cafaro, J Cerdá - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2010 - Elsevier
Petroleum refined products are mostly sent from oil refineries to distribution depots by trunk
pipelines. Pipeline networks usually involve multiple input and exit terminals, and even dual …

Optimal scheduling of refined products pipelines with multiple sources

DC Cafaro, J Cerdá - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Most contributions on short-term planning of multiproduct pipeline operations deal with
pipelines featuring a single input terminal. In common-carrier pipelines, however, several …

A rigorous mathematical formulation for the scheduling of tree-structure pipeline networks

DC Cafaro, J Cerda - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Pipeline networks are the dominant mode of conveying a wide variety of oil refined products
from refineries to distribution terminals. Pipeline infrastructure usually comprises trunk lines …

Optimization of petroleum products distribution via pipeline systems: Modeling and computational challenges

RJ Acosta-Amado - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Optimizing the distribution of refined oil products using pipeline systems has been posing a
meaningful challenge to the operations research field of exceptional economic importance …

Oil-derivatives pipeline logistics using discrete-event simulation

VG Cafaro, DC Cafaro, CA Méndez… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The management of oil-product pipelines represents a critical task in the daily operation of
petroleum supply chains. Efficient computational tools are needed to perform this activity in a …

[PDF][PDF] A Robust Optimization Model for the Strategic and Operational Design of the Oil Supply Chain

N Zarrinpoor, Z Omidvari - Journal of Industrial Management …, 2020 - jimp.sbu.ac.ir
Abstract1 The oil industry has a great share in the energy structure and the global economy,
and the planning of strategic and operational levels of its supply chain is done with the …

A survey on oil/gas pipeline optimization: Problems, methods and challenges

Y Wang, CH Tian, J Yan… - Proceedings of 2012 IEEE …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to its safest operation and lowest expense, the fuel pipeline system plays crucial role in
oil/gas transportation. In the pipe network industry, there are diverse optimization tasks …

Systematic Approaches for Optimal Scheduling of Straight Pipelines with Batch-Centric Formulations

PM Castro - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Scheduling of the transportation of liquids by multiproduct pipelines has been receiving
considerable attention in the literature. The preferred methods for solving this problem rely …