Valero Energy uses LabVantage to Help Standardize Laboratory Best Practices
Valero Energy uses LabVantage to Help Standardize Laboratory Best Practices
3 PagesValero Energy Corporation is a Fortune 500 international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels, other petrochemical products, and power. It is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. Throughout the United States and Canada, the company owns and operates 15 refineries, and one in Wales, with a combined throughput capacity of approximately 3 million barrels per day, 11 ethanol plants with a combined production capacity of 1.2 billion US gallons per year, and a 50-megawatt wind farm. KEY CHALLENGES Because of four new refinery acquisitions in 1997 and 1998, Valero was seeking a superior LIMS application to become the corporate standard. This new corporate- wide solution would replace a variety of legacy LIMS installations at all of its plants. The ideal solution had to
