Global refiners are navigating a perfect storm: crude oversupply is flooding markets, refinery outages are disrupting operations, and margin volatility is tightening profitability. As market dynamics shift, strategic agility is no longer optional—it’s essential.
Refining Scenario Manager (RSM) delivers near real-time insights and powerful scenario modeling to optimize trading strategies and refinery operations. With RSM, you can simulate everything from crude pricing to unit-level utilization, uncovering opportunities to improve efficiency, strengthen margins, and gain a competitive edge.
Powered by AspenTech’s Unified PIMS (Linear Programming) software and integrated with S&P Global Commodity Insights’ industry-leading refinery data, RSM provides a robust scenario management capability adaptable to any refinery configuration. Its cloud-based platform, accessible through S&P Global Energy Core, delivers near real-time data and scalable analytics to support faster, more informed decisions.
Long-term scenario planning
“Our team works on generating long-term price scenarios which are used by downstream performance analysts to benchmark our portfolio performance.”
European Oil Major
Benchmarking refinery performance
“We are responsible for measuring financial performance of our assets, and don’t currently have a way of comparing our refineries to our peers”
State Oil Company
Real-time margin visibility
“I need to understand how margins are affected by oil price movements in near real time as possible so I can make better trading decisions”
Middle Eastern Petrochemical Company
Crude procurement optimization
“We plan our crude purchases in 3-month cycles based on demand data we receive from our HQ. This tool would allow us to validate the results of our internal LP models to select optimal grades”
Multinational Conglomerate
RSM provides near-real-time insights and scenario modeling to support smarter trading and refinery decisions. By simulating everything from crude pricing to unit-level utilization, teams can uncover opportunities to improve efficiency, strengthen margins, and gain a competitive edge.
Compare refinery performance against peers under different market conditions and operating assumptions.
Support strategic decisions on crude sourcing, yield optimization, and unit-level investments.
Allocate crudes across your refinery network to maximize margins using scenario-based insights.
Validate internal LP and AUP model outputs using trusted third-party analytics.
Understand the marginal value of crudes to support smarter spot market trading decisions.
Define crude price floors and ceilings with a clear view of marginal value and market dynamics.
Refining Scenario Manager (RSM) equips refiners, traders, and planners with powerful scenario modeling and refinery economics capabilities to evaluate market conditions, optimize refinery operations, and support more informed strategic decisions.
Create and execute up to 15 user-configured scenarios for a selected refinery and time period directly within Platts Connect.
Scenario results are generated using Commodity Insights’ refinery databases integrated with AspenTech’s world-leading Unified PIMS engine.
Gain clarity on refinery profitability and margin sensitivity with robust financial and economic outputs.
Analyze refinery performance and operating metrics with detailed product-level visibility.
Built on S&P Global Energy global refinery databases and powered by AspenTech Unified PIMS, RSM delivers institutional-grade refining economics in a flexible, user-driven framework.
Learn how Refining Scenario Manager (RSM) helps refiners evaluate market conditions, optimize operations, and make faster commercial decisions. Explore the resources below to see the platform in action, understand real-world applications, and connect with our team.
Interested in learning how Refining Scenario Manager (RSM) can support your refinery planning, trading, and optimization strategies? Connect with our team to see the platform in action, discuss your operational challenges, and explore how RSM can help you make more informed refining decisions.
The integration ensures institutional-grade refinery modeling without traditional LP workflow bottlenecks.
Designed to support traders, LP economists and commercial teams in margin optimization and validation.
Enables performance benchmarking and strategic stress-testing across assets.
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