KBC consultants

Since 1979, KBC consultants have provided independent advise and expertise to enable leading companies in the global energy sector and other processing sectors manage risk while maximising the value from their assets.

As a leading independent process industry consultancy group operating worldwide, we provide specialised consulting services and software designed to improve the competitive position of our clients. KBC has worked closely with over 300 clients in areas such as strategic organisational development, human performance improvement, yield improvement and energy cost reduction, loss reduction and value recovery; planning and scheduling to increase profitability; reliability, availability, and maintenance; risk analysis and operations and technical support. We have a client base including national oil companies, major multi-national oil companies, and independent refiners -  with extensive  experience in the Middle East and North Africa.

KBC reinforced its commitment to the region by opening a Middle East office in Bahrain to provide proactive support to our customers in the region. This office is staffed with highly experienced consultants able to disseminate leading practises from the region and leverage leading practises from across the globe.

Organisations are increasingly seeking ways to gain greater returns from their investment strategies, existing assets, and infrastructure in today's market of volatile downstream margins. The common criteria surrounding such an optimisation effort include:

• Capital Management Systems: Challenging capital strategies to ensure greatest return on investment
• Initial Proof of Concept: Short-term improvements to generate cash flow that will fund additional improvements
• Sustainability: Ability to sustain the improvement once implemented;

With unparalleled process and operations experience, KBC consultants are uniquely positioned to assist clients in achieving the greatest possible returns from their new capacity additions and existing assets within the demanding constraints described above. We typically provide our clients with a minimum 10:1 tangible benefit; ten dollars in savings implemented for every dollar spent. Investments traditionally have a payback period of one year or less, and we advocate the implementation of immediate opportunities to create cash flow to fund additional opportunities, thus creating a self-funding initiative. The typical challenges facing current Middle East clients include:

• Efficiency of new capacity
• Local workforce development
• Satisfaction of local demand for refined products
• Export market opportunity evaluation
• Competitive operating cost structures
• Petrochemical and refining integration

KBC consultants work closely with our clients' operational, technical, human resource, and management teams to tailor solutions specific to their unique needs, circumstances, and priorities. Innovative ideas, access to global leading practices, and extensive collaboration with client personnel result in the identification of substantial improvement opportunities that can be implemented and sustained over a long-term horizon. Our methodology is rigorous, yet pragmatic, and sufficiently flexible to address real constraints created by the existing business environment and respond to the work style and approach desired by our clients.

WHY KBC

KBC is uniquely positioned to provide our customers with all the specialist skills, experience and expertise required to deliver sustained change. KBC's extensive operational knowledge enables the delivery of practical, pragmatic change that delivers real financial benefits.

KBC has the required track record

§  KBC has experts in all the areas of our clients' businesses, and we have a track record of using this knowledge to assist our clients to get the best returns from existing assets.

§  We have unmatched experience of delivering operational improvement services in the Middle East and North Africa.

§  KBC has the technical capability to deliver a successful programme.  

KBC has the right methodology, tools, and techniques

§  KBC consultants have unrivalled, extensive experience in every facet of NextGen Performance to lead our clients in a process of continuous improvement. Uniquely, KBC consultants understand, and therefore can address, all the technical issues associated with running a processing plant. From this we generate sustained cost reduction and margin improvement opportunities

§  Our team follows a unique, rigorous, but straightforward methodology for the development and implementation of improvement opportunities throughout the client organisation.

§  KBC understands that technology is a fundamental driver of improved industry performance. Our team seeks out new developments in the industry and looks for opportu­nities where clients can benefit without risk. In addition, KBC has invested in developing and employing our own world-class process simulation tools and energy technology packages to find better solutions for our clients.

The KBC philosophy is to partner with our clients for the long term

§  KBC is an independent company, and we will always represent the best interests of our clients by providing impartial advice and guidance to improve their operations. 

§  KBC recognises that our success depends not just on our integrity and good governance but upon our proven ability to respond to customer needs with a clear understanding of their objectives and constraints.

Throughout our client partnerships, KBC consultants transfer knowledge of our proven methodologies to our client's personnel so that continuous improvement becomes standard practice. We collaborate with our clients to create unique solutions to their specific challenges. Some of these challenges may include:

Strategic Challenges

- Creating effective business strategy/decisions

- Increasing return on investments

- Enhancing returns on acquisitions/divestitures

- Reducing strategic/capital/market/investment risk

- Enhancing yields

- Creating effective response to crude/feedstock/product markets

- Improving financial performance

Capital Challenges

- Increasing return on capital investment

- Rationalising/optimising environmental compliance capital expenditures

- Reducing capital risk

Operating Challenges

- Improving yield

- Increasing availability

- Reducing maintenance costs

- Implementing/improving behaviour-based reliability

- Improving safety performance

- Improving supply chain performance

- Managing operational risk

Organisational Challenges

- Increasing organisational effectiveness

- Improving employee competency/capability

- Enhancing employee support systems

- Improving shift team function

Environmental Challenges

- Reducing emissions

- Ensuring compliance

- Reducing/managing environmental liabilities

- Rationalising compliance expenditures

- Improving energy efficiency

In times of economic uncertainty and increasing environmental pressure, the KBC proprietary methodologies and innovative tools guide clients' key strategic decisions, prioritise and implement initiatives that maximise return on investment, and improve operational performance. For more information on how we can help your organisation achieve NextGen Performance, visit www.kbcat.com.