Symmetry process simulation software

Comprehensive process simulation software

Overview

Comprehensive process simulation software for the oil and gas industry

The Symmetry process simulation software offers a unique opportunity to model your process workflows in one environment, integrating facilities, process units (Symmetry Process) with pipelines, networks (Symmetry Pipe) and flare, safety systems (Symmetry Flare) models, while ensuring consistent thermodynamics and fluid characterization across the full system. This approach enables companies to optimize processes in upstream, midstream and downstream sectors, maximizing profits and minimizing CAPEX.

Symmetry software empowers teams across the full life cycle of process modeling—from initial conceptualization to detailed engineering and design, through commissioning and startup and into operations. It supports continuous improvement by helping maximize reliability and availability, reducing emissions and energy consumption, and optimizing economic performance. With its integrated workflows and advanced simulation capabilities, Symmetry software enables smarter decisions and more efficient operations at every stage.

Upstream

Model inflow and flow assurance workflows, predict and manage pigging and slugging, forecast field production rates, model gathering systems and pipeline networks.

Midstream

Optimize gas processing, oil and heavy oil processing, LNG and gas-to-liquids conversion, and utilities management, including steam and power generation.

Downstream

Optimize oil refining, petrochemical and production, and alternative technologies such as fuel cells and gasification.

New Energy

Feasibility, concept selection and detailed design for transition and alternative technologies including geothermal, hydrogen, energy storage, and carbon capture.

Improve safety, profits, and performance by optimizing process workflows in one software

Symmetry software enables you to model process workflows in a single integrated environment, with accurate thermodynamic fluid representation and consistent modeling across all disciplines including process, production, and HSE. The simulator integrates steady-state and transient (dynamic) analyses that can be tailored for each domain. This approach enables companies to optimize processes in upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors while maximizing profits and minimizing capital expenditures. Offered as one of SLB's Transition Technologies, Symmetry software can help reduce emissions, energy consumption, and waste.

Characterize fluid with a best-in-class approach

The Symmetry software is powered by a best-in-class thermodynamic engine used for fluid representation, which is extensively validated against experimental data. The built-in database includes more than 20,000 chemicals, 80 thermodynamic property packages, and hundreds of unit operations, providing unparalleled model sophistication and precision.

The software uses a PIONA approach† to model hydrocarbons, enabling process engineers to accurately simulate blending, separation, and even reactive systems. This molecular approach can accurately model the formation of hydrates, wax, and asphaltene and can accurately simulate hydrocarbon mixtures coming from different fields. The behavior of hydrate inhibitors is also accurately represented.

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Applications

Identify and mitigate HSE and operational risks

Comprehensive identification of specific safety concerns, from fire scenarios to equipment failures and much more, is an essential element of all operations. To enabling the mitigation of HSE and operational risks, Symmetry software provides a complete set of flare and relief system design tools that empowers users to verify the performance of entire safety systems.

The software is flexible enough to suit any application, analyzing standalone components or complete system with various levels of detail, in steady state or dynamics.

Ensure asset reliability

Symmetry process simulation software enables full life cycle modeling from conception to operation, which provides better options to troubleshoot performance, create FEED and start up studies, and fully optimize your system. Symmetry process simulation software offers extensive options to provide openness such as COM, OPC connectivity, CAPE open, custom interfaces and more, to enable integration with different systems, helping you fully understand your asset.

Model upstream, midstream, and downstream process workflows.

Evaluate surface facilities to confirm viability of carbon capture and storage (CCS) opportunities.

Optimize dynamic throughput.

Manage capex via conceptual design and FEED studies.

Optimize compression and reduce risk of failure.

Improve facility performance.

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Benefits

Consistent characterization and fluid models throughout the full system

Symmetry software provides a new approach to traditional oil pseudo-component characterization techniques. Its PIONA-based fluid characterization uses chemical family structures to enable accurate physical property estimation in blending, separation, and even reactive systems to be more accurately simulated. Ensuring consistent thermodynamics and component tracking across the full system.

Identify and mitigate HSE and operational risks.

Reduce emissions, energy consumption, and waste.

Ensure asset reliability and operational efficiency.

Ensure compliance in meeting product specifications.

Recognize and mitigate flow assurance risks.

Experience the next generation

Symmetry software provides additional competitive advantage by leveraging the Delfi™ digital platform. This provides access to more than 20 years of deep science across the spectrum, and the ability to utilize advanced AI techniques.

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