VEGAMargin Optimization

Maximize the margin on every barrel.

Vega continuously optimizes your crude slate, unit operating modes, and product blend against live market prices — so margin is captured in real time, not reconciled at month-end.

+13%
Typical margin uplift
<5 min
Re-optimization cycle
Live
Market price feed
Zero
Spreadsheet planning
Vega — Margin Optimizer LIVE
$6.80
Margin /bbl
+13%
Uplift vs base
7
Crude grades
$2.1M
Monthly capture
Optimized product yield
ULSD / Diesel38%
Gasoline31%
Jet fuel18%
Fuel oil13%
Crude slate
Arab Light42%
Basrah Med.27%
WTI19%
Urals12%
Optimizer recommendation
→ Shift 2.4 kbd naphtha to reformer — +$0.31/bbl margin
What Vega Does

Margin optimization, end to end

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Margin Tracking

Live gross margin per barrel, per unit, and per crude — no month-end reconciliation.

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Crude Slate

The most profitable crude basket for today's prices, qualities, and constraints.

⚗️

Yield & Blend

Optimal product mix and blend recipes that hit spec at the lowest give-away.

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Scenario Planning

What-if analysis across price decks, outages, and demand in seconds.

The Margin Gap

Markets move daily. Most plans don't.

Between a monthly plan and a live market sits real money — margin that quietly leaks, shift after shift.

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Stale plans

Planning runs monthly while crude differentials and product cracks move every single day — the plan is wrong before the ink dries.

MARGIN LEAK
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Spreadsheet LP models

Optimization models trapped in spreadsheets — slow to run, hard to audit, and disconnected from live plant and market data.

SLOW & OPAQUE
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Decisions in silos

Crude buying, unit operating modes, and blending are each optimized alone — never against one shared margin objective.

FRAGMENTED
Capability 01 — Margin Tracking

Real-time margin, not month-end

Vega computes gross margin continuously — for the whole site, each unit, and each crude — against live market prices, so you always know exactly where money is being made or lost.

  • Live gross margin per barrel, per unit, and per crude grade
  • Actual-vs-plan and actual-vs-optimal margin tracking
  • Margin leak alerts when a unit drifts off its optimal point
  • Connects to your historian, LIMS, and live price feeds
See it live
Vega — Margin by Unit
$6.80
Site margin /bbl
+$0.78
vs plan
Margin contribution by unit
Crude Unit$2.40
Reformer$1.95
FCC$1.50
Hydrocracker$0.95
Capability 02 — Crude & Yield

The most profitable barrel to run

Vega solves crude selection, unit operating modes, and product blending as one problem — against a single margin objective and your real plant constraints.

  • Optimal crude basket for current prices, qualities, and logistics
  • Yield shift recommendations as cracks and demand move
  • Blend recipes that hit every spec at minimum quality give-away
  • Respects unit capacities, tankage, and product commitments
See it live
Vega — Crude Slate Optimizer
Recommended crude slate
Arab Light42%
Basrah Med.27%
WTI19%
Urals12%
Vega recommendation
→ Swap 8 kbd Urals → Arab Light — +$0.46/bbl margin
Capability 03 — Scenario Planning

Decide before the market does

Run any what-if — a price move, a unit outage, a demand shift — and Vega returns the re-optimized plan and its margin impact in seconds, not days.

  • Compare price decks, crude availability, and demand cases side by side
  • Outage and turnaround planning with full margin impact
  • Every scenario auditable — assumptions, constraints, and result
  • Share the recommended plan straight to operations and trading
See it live
Vega — Scenario Compare
Base plan
Current crude deck
$6.02
Scenario A — diesel crack +$4
Max distillate mode
$6.80
Scenario B — FCC outage 5d
Reduced conversion
$5.21
Recommended
→ Adopt Scenario A — +$0.78/bbl vs base plan
How It Works

From live data to a captured margin

STEP 01

Ingest

Pulls live process data, crude assays, product specs, and market prices into one model.

STEP 02

Model

Builds a constrained economic model of your units, tankage, and product slate.

STEP 03

Optimize

Solves crude, operating mode, and blend together against one margin objective.

STEP 04

Recommend

Delivers a clear, auditable action — and the dollars it adds — to operations.

See what your margin could be

Bring a month of plant and price data — we'll show you the margin Vega would have captured. Schedule a demo with our team.