Case Study: Largest Oil & Gas Company uncovers hidden pipeline capacity and increases revenue with Dassault Systemes

How one oil & gas logistics provider optimized scheduling to uncover hidden capacity and increase revenue

Largest Oil & Gas Company, a leading provider of logistics services with a pipeline network spanning over 1,000 miles and multiple injection points, faced chronic capacity constraints and complex scheduling challenges. Planners juggled three disconnected systems for nominations, scheduling and accounting, relied on manual data entry and Gantt-chart workarounds, and produced schedules that ignored key dependencies—creating transmix risks, infeasible plans and missed opportunities to accept nominations. To address this, they engaged Dassault Systemes using the Quintiq planning and optimization platform.

Dassault Systemes implemented a centrally managed, fully integrated Quintiq solution that modeled the company’s rules and network dependencies, automated nomination acceptance and accounting handoffs, provided sequencing optimization and decision support, and sent automated stakeholder updates. The system went live in August 2017 and immediately delivered measurable benefits: monthly backhaul time dropped by 12 hours, freeing capacity to accept more nominations and increase revenue, producing an immediate ROI for the Largest Oil & Gas Company.