Case Study: Diversified Energy Company avoids emergency shutdowns and cuts maintenance costs 30% with Aspen Technology's Aspen Mtell

Digital Transformation with Predictive Maintenance Drives Cost Savings

Diversified Energy Company, a large operator with more than a dozen refineries and extensive midstream and chemicals operations, faced repeated hydrogen compressor failures that drove millions in production losses and over $250M across three events. As part of its digital transformation, Diversified Energy Company ran a competitive pilot and selected Aspen Technology to deploy predictive maintenance using the Aspen Mtell solution to detect impending failures early.

Aspen Technology implemented Aspen Mtell agents (seven anomaly and four failure agents) that predicted a compressor failure 35 days in advance, allowing planned repairs that could save up to 8 days of shutdown, reduce maintenance costs by about 30%, and avoid roughly $30M in production losses for a single event — with combined potential savings exceeding $75M across the three historical failures. The deployment helped avoid emergency shutdowns, improved HSE performance, and is being scaled to monitor 300+ assets across multiple refineries and pipelines.