Case Study: Petrobras achieves faster, higher-output offshore gas planning with AIMMS

Petrobras uses AIMMS for Offshore Gas Planning

Petrobras, Brazil’s largest corporation with operations across exploration, production, refining and distribution, manages extensive offshore assets in the Campos basin—over 30 platforms producing 20.8 million m3 of gas per day and generating up to $100 million in monthly onshore gas revenue. The Operations Research and IT team needed a fast, reliable and intuitive decision‑support tool for multi‑annual offshore gas planning that offered higher performance, scalability and better systems integration than their existing spreadsheet‑based and early optimization solutions.

They deployed MOVIGAS, an AIMMS‑based decision support app that connects to Petrobras’ databases, provides an intuitive graphical interface and uses AIMMS as the core optimizer to generate optimal gas plans and pinpoint network bottlenecks. The result was improved planning agility, a greater ability to meet demand, higher output and increased revenues, while meeting the company’s performance and integration requirements.

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