MPC in Statoil – Advantages with In-House Technology

Abstract Statoil has used an in-house developed MPC since 1997. Several applications are running in closed loop today, with quite a good performance and average service factors of approximately 99%. All application projects have used internal resources only, which means that the competence has been aggregated within the company and that the best practice has been integrated in the MPC software. The total cost of software development is less than or similar to the alternative external vendor license fees, and the application project costs are definitely low.