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Implico expertise supports Gunvor’s refinery investment in Ingolstadt
Master agreement signed
Continuing its long-standing service to the refinery in Ingolstadt, Implico has signed a master agreement to provide consultancy, licensing, maintenance and support services to Gunvor, the new owner of the Ingolstadt-based refinery and marketing division. The first consultancy project covered by this master agreement is already underway.
Since 2004, the Ingolstadt refinery has been using OpenTAS, one of the leading terminal management and automation systems. Implico has provided software and consultancy during this time. Even through the Petroplus insolvency process, OpenTAS system was kept running enabling the refinery to use sales to improve its liquidity.
Gunvor completed its acquisition in August, and the Ingolstadt refinery’s processing operations have since been managed under Gunvor Raffinerie Ingolstadt GmbH while the German marketing arm operates as Gunvor Deutschland GmbH.
Once Gunvor’s ownership had been approved, Implico’s oil and gas experts took just a few days to customize the OpenTAS systems to the new structures and requirements. As a result, the loading process for both types of transportation – tank trucks and railroad tank cars – was back online on the day Gunvor assumed control. Product marketing by the marketing company was also able to resume immediately on this date. During the period of insolvency, Implico had also been careful to migrate the processes to version 2.0 of the Excise Movement and Control System (EMCS) – the European system used for the transportation of goods subject to excise duty. As a result, Gunvor was also fully up-to-date from a customs/tax perspective even before operations started. Since the beginning of October, the sending and/or receiving of duty-suspended excisable goods has been possible only with the new EMCS version 2.0.
“The ability of Implico’s team to help facilitate the refinery restart by get the loading process for both types of transportation – tank trucks and railroad tank cars – and product marketing back online within days of Gunvor’s acquisition demonstrated the clear value we offer,” said Steffen Schliesing, Senior Account Manager at
Implico.
Source: Berit Huyke, implico GmbH, www.implico.com,
December 18, 2012.
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