Case Study: Valero Energy Corporation achieves standardized laboratory best practices and rapid enterprise-wide LIMS deployment with LabVantage Solutions

Valero Energy uses LabVantage to Help Standardize Laboratory Best Practices

Valero Energy Corporation, a Fortune 500 producer and marketer of transportation fuels and petrochemical products, needed to standardize laboratory best practices after multiple refinery acquisitions and replace a variety of legacy LIMS installations. The company required a corporate LIMS that met refinery lab workflows (automated sample scheduling, barcode tracking, instrument interfacing, chain-of-custody reporting) and could integrate with corporate systems like SAP and Info Plus 21. Valero selected LabVantage Solutions and its LabVantage LIMS to meet these requirements.

LabVantage Solutions implemented LabVantage LIMS across Valero’s refineries, loading Corpus Christi lab data of over one million result records in just over two weeks and rolling the system out to multiple sites (use by 15–50+ users per facility, 24/7). The solution standardized processes, automated sample handling and reporting, supported heavy volumes (e.g., Corpus Christi ~19,800 samples and ~258,000 results per month), and improved instrument interfacing and operational reporting—delivering fast deployment, enterprise-wide consistency, and measurable throughput and data-management gains for Valero.

Valero Energy Corporation