19-Journey of oil loss: From flow meters to Tank Levels

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19 Nov 2025

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About the Webinar

In this webinar, OMS Academy partners with Orion Smart Solutions to uncover the end-to-end journey of hydrocarbon loss and demonstrate how a structured reconciliation roadmap can bring control, visibility, and measurable savings.

We’ll walk through how errors arise in metering, movement, and storage — and how Omega Balance helps detect, correct, and reconcile those errors across the value chain using proven statistical and engineering techniques.

Oil loss is a silent profit drain that spans the entire refinery and terminal operation — from inaccurate flow meter readings to inconsistent tank inventory records. Yet most organizations still treat these losses as isolated events rather than a connected, measurable process.

What You Will Learn

  • What drives oil loss — and why it's more than just measurement noise

  • How to reconcile flow meters, movement transactions, and tank inventories

  • Gross error detection and observability principles explained with real examples.

  • How reconciliation systems flag hidden issues in movement and terminal operations

  • Building a Hydrocarbon Management Roadmap — integrating SAP, DCS, and process historians

  • Visualizing loss, corrections, and balance KPIs through a dashboard.

Target Audience

  • Refinery Movement Coordinators and Operations Engineers

  • Terminal and Inventory Managers

  • Instrumentation and Flow Metering Specialists

  • Digital Transformation Leaders

  • Auditors, Planners, and SAP Integration Teams

Why You Should Attend

  • Understand the full scope of oil loss across your operations

  • Learn how to implement plant-wide mass reconciliation and error correction.

  • Improve inventory accuracy and reduce unaccounted losses.

  • Support preventive maintenance by monitoring meter performance.

  • See how Omega Balance integrates with your existing systems and workflow.s

You Will Take Away

  • A practical roadmap for hydrocarbon management and oil loss control

  • Reconciled vs. reported loss comparison framework

  • Sample dashboards and reconciliation KPIs

  • Demo access to Omega Balance tools

  • Invitation to pilot this solution using your plant’s actual data

About OMS eLearning Academy

  • Provides a portal for the continuing education of refinery and related business professionals

  • Professionals can create their own curriculum from over 200 topics or enroll in more than 200 structured courses.

  • Progressive eLearning mode—courses can be taken anytime, anywhere, and on any device.e

  • Issue a course completion certificate and transcript with Continuing Education (CE) credits

  • Offers flexible plans and subscriptions for both individuals and enterprises

Click to see the academy catalog of topics: https://bit.ly/3cJ1YnM.

Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Suresh S.  Agrawal
Dr. Suresh S.  Agrawal

Founder and CEO,  Academy Director, Offsite Management Systems LLC

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Dr. Suresh Agrawal

Dr. Agrawal graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering. He later obtained a Master’s and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA.

Dr. Agrawal has over 40 years of experience in senior technical and management roles with international companies. He has successfully led numerous advanced refinery process control projects across several countries. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Illinois, USA, and a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (formerly the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society, formerly the Instrumentation Society of America). Dr. Agrawal has published and presented more than 30 papers in international journals and conferences on advanced process control. He has also consulted for several refining and process industries worldwide and regularly conducts training seminars in his areas of expertise.

Roberto Linares
Roberto Linares

VP of AI Solutions, opro.ai, Inc

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Dr. Roberto Linares

With over 20 years of experience in industrial software and applications, Dr. Roberto Linares specializes in areas such as data reconciliation, optimization, and AI solutions. His expertise combines technical innovation with practical solutions to drive efficiency and success across process industries. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University.

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