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Intergraph® Process, Power & Marine Solutions Creates Intelligent Engineering Designs with Cepsa

Cepsa (Compañía Española de Petróleos, S.A.U.), one of the leading Spanish energy companies, has expanded the use of Intergraph® Process, Power & Marine solutions to enhance overall engineering design integrity and quality. The newly implemented solutions include Intergraph Smart® 3D, Intergraph SmartPlant® P&ID and Intergraph SmartPlant Electrical, as well as analysis tools PV Elite®, CAESAR II® and Intergraph TANK™.

Cepsa chose to increase the use of Intergraph Process, Power & Marine solutions primarily because of the ability to leverage real-time concurrent design, ensuring integrity and accurateness of engineering design throughout the engineering workflow. In addition, the interoperability between analysis and design solutions helps Cepsa to drive efficiency and minimize errors between different project steps.

With over 85 years of experience in energy markets, Cepsa is Spain’s fourth-largest industrial group in terms of revenue. With the implementation of a full suite of Intergraph solutions, Cepsa aims to further improve industrial plant design productivity as well as information flow between design and analysis solutions.

Commenting on the decision to expand the use of Intergraph Process, Power & Marine to improve information management workflows, Patricia Chacon Sangines, Cepsa’s piping department lead, said, "We are very pleased to see how successful our first implementation of Intergraph PP&M’s intelligent design solutions have been. The Intergraph PP&M solutions have allowed us to make a qualitative leap that has lead us to the forefront of industrial plant design."

Mattias Stenberg, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine president, said, "We are proud to see how Cepsa has improved work processes and gained a competitive advantage with the use of Intergraph PP&M solutions."

Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise offers a powerful portfolio of industry-leading, best-in-class design and data management solutions, enabling companies in the process, power and marine industries to capture integrated engineering knowledge at the enterprise level for the competitive advantage needed in today’s and tomorrow’s market. SmartPlant Enterprise’s integrated suite of solutions enable proven productivity gains, improving engineering efficiency by up to 30 percent.

For more information about SmartPlant Enterprise, visit ppm.intergraph.com/products/enterprise-solutions/smartplant-enterprise-oo.

Intergraph Technical User Forum (TUF) LinkedIn groups provide an online discussion forum for year-round networking between users. To learn more about Intergraph solutions and network with other

Intergraph users, visit ppm.intergraph.com/technical-user-forums.

The ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analyst firm, ranked Intergraph as the No. 1 overall worldwide provider of engineering solutions for plant design (process, power and marine), according to its "Engineering Design Tools for Plants & Infrastructure Global Market Research Study Market Analysis and Forecast Through 2020."

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

Erika Ahvenainen
Communications Specialist
Intergraph PP&M EMIA
+31235666577
erika.ahvenainen@intergraph.com

About Cepsa
Cepsa is an energy group fully owned by the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) that employs more than 10,000 people and operates at every stage of the hydrocarbon value chain: exploration and production of oil and gas, refining, distribution and marketing of crude oil and natural gas derivatives, biofuels, co-generation and electricity sales.

Cepsa has developed an important chemicals division that is closely integrated with the refining business, and that produces and markets the raw materials for high value-added products, principally used to make next generation plastics and biodegradable detergents. Cepsa has a leading position in Spain and, through the progressive international expansion of its business, also operates in several continents and markets its products across the world.

To learn more about Cepsa, please visit www.cepsa.com.