what are the applications of Information technology in petroleum refineries?
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you could write books on this of couse - I won't attempt to write one here - but you can view the following Microsoft case study that relates to work they did with respect to petrolium refining in India
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ever heard of "Information Technology"?
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The most important use that i can think of is to maintain database of guests, and employees. \nThen maintain a payrolls division.\nThen, database of inventory and supplies. \nprobably designing and landscape.
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As long as there are computers, there will be a need for Data warehousing. This offers companies a back-up for disaster recovery plans. It will grow as more companies develop these disaster recovery plans. I believe that ISO 9001 requires a plan in order to be certified.\n\nAnother promising field is electronic archiving of hard copies. So many companies have to hold onto old documents, but would like to have those stored electronically. The problem is the time involved in scanning and recording all these documents.
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Electronic data processing (also: Information Technology or IT) can refer to the use of automated methods to process commercial data. Typically, this uses relatively simple, repetitive activities to process large volumes of similar information. For example: stock updates applied to an inventory, banking transactions applied to account and customer master files, booking and ticketing transactions to an airline's reservation system, billing for utility services.\n\nToday\nAs with other industrial processes commercial IT has moved in all respects from a bespoke, craft-based industry where the product was tailored to fit the customer; to multi-use components taken off the shelf to find the best-fit in any situation. Mass-production has greatly reduced costs and IT is available to the smallest company or one-man band - or school-kid.\n\nLEO was hardware tailored for a single client. Today, Intel Pentium and compatible chips are standard and become parts of other components which are combined as needed. One individual change of note was the freeing of computers and removable storage from protected, air-filtered environments. Microsoft and IBM at various times have been influential enough to impose order on IT and the resultant standardisations allowed specialist software to flourish.\n\nSoftware is available off the shelf: apart from Microsoft products such as Office, or Lotus, there are also specialist packages for payroll and personnel management, account maintenance and customer management, to name a few. These are highly specialised and intricate components of larger environments, but they rely upon common conventions and interfaces.\n\nData storage has also standardised. Relational databases are developed by different suppliers to common formats and conventions. Common file formats can be shared by large main-frames and desk-top personal computers, allowing online, realtime input and validation.\n\nIn parallel, software development has fragmented. There are still specialist technicians, but these increasingly use standardised methodologies where outcomes are predictable and accessible. At the other end of the scale, any office manager can dabble in spreadsheets or databases and obtain acceptable results (but there are risks).\n\nRetrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_data_processing"
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Everything from Business Intelligence to advanced analytics. Its the only truly intergrated software product out there.\n\nPeople use it for Basel II reporting, volatility analysis and all types of financial reporting.
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Management information system
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http://www.hydrocarbons-technology.com/projects/snohvit/snohvit1.html
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Before oil can be sold, it must be processed through a refinery.
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customizing the software for users in a certain kind of business or providing software maintenance.\n\nthose would be the 2 areas that seem useful.
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There are many companies like this. Take a look at Rigzone.com\nhttp://www.rigzone.com/\nYou can look through the industry directory, and even the career center. They also have lots of news about the industry.\n\nAnother source: Oil and Gas Journal at \nhttp://ogj.pennnet.com/\nThey have a jobs section and lots of information about companies in the oil industry as well as statistical data about production, imports, etc.
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Corporate information systems strategy \n\n•Describe the factors influencing an information system within an organization: management organization and functions, planning and decision making methods, general organization structure, responsibility for the information system within an organization, information flow, hardware and software, standard, behavioral factors e.g. personalities, motivation, ability to adapt to change. \nInformation flow \n\n•Describe the methods and mechanisms of information flow within an organization both formal and informal and the constraints imposed upon this by organizational structures... \n\nPersonnel \n\n•Understand the levels of task/personnel within an organization: strategic, implementation, operational and relate the needs of these three levels to the information system. \n\nSAMPLE\n\nIntro The business environment is very competitive. Consequently, COMPANY NAME needs to offer customers efficient and reliable service. If they do not, customers will switch to more consumer efficient companies. Furthermore, as our COMPANY NAME grows in size, it becomes harder to keep track of the growing amount of customer information. If COMPANY NAME does a poor job of organizing and maintaining customer records and data, it can result in problems for both COMPANY NAME and the consumer. \n\nII. Company Description \n\nIV. Solution\n\nVI. MIS Strengths and Weaknesses Before implementing the any new software and hardware we need to make sure under any new system all customer information and invoices can be quickly accessed by simply entering the number of the invoice, customer account or purchase order. Errors on invoices can be changed without having to retype the whole document. \n\nAny new system of software and hardware should allowed COMPANY NAME customer representatives to save time, which may be used in handling more complicated customer issues. Customer service has to be tremendously improved since customers seeking information on their transactions no longer have to be inconvenienced by waiting long hours. Instead, customer information should be available in real-time, at the moment the customer service representative needs it, a feat that could be made possible by On Demand software. \n\nThis means that as the COMPANY NAME accumulates data that eventually becomes obsolete or is rarely accessed, they can simply remove the cartridges that the information is stored on and replace it with a blank one. This allows additional storage capacity at a very low incremental cost. Furthermore, the use of a Database makes it possible to integrate information as web services. Without Database it would be very difficult to integrate all of the customer information to a web based form or make it accessible on the company's intranet. \n\nIn terms of weaknesses, it is hard to identify any limitations to COMPANY NAME management information systems.  It would seem that the Database is using the most advanced and reliable software and hardware available on the market, as is evidenced by the wide use of all of NAMED PRODUCT and services by companies around the world. \n\nVII. Competitive Advantage of Database MIS As previously stated, COMPANY NAME is involved in a wide range of markets and the range of products and services they provide is unparalleled by any other company. In short, there is no other company in the world that competes on the same level as COMPANY NAME. Rather, there appears to be several competitors in each sector or industry in which COMPANY NAME offers its products and services. Since their competitors are so much smaller, they don't require the same degree or level of information systems that COMPANY NAME has and it is therefore hard to make a comparison. What COMPANY NAME information system does for the company is allow it to be more flexible and swift than it was previously. Frequently, as companies grow, they tend to become more bureaucratic and less able to adapt to changes in the mark
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Oil refineries pollute the air by releasing or burning gaseous by-products of the refining process, such as naphtha, petroleum gas, sulfur, etc.  They also pollute the air by burning fuel to create heat and electricity which are used to refine oil.
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I had been the vice president of my family's company that designed and manufactured SCADA and telemetry systems for water and waste water systems. I'm probably one of a handfull of people in Yahoo Answers who actually know what you studied.\n\nThere are several fields where you can apply your knowledge: \n\nManufacturing - Medium to large manufacturing companies will want you because you will be designing their process control systems. Ideal countries to seek employment are the more industrialized nations that rely more on automated manufacturing to compete with cheap labor from third world countries.  \n\nOil and Gas - Processs control systems in this industry are less complex than those found in manufacturing facilities, but are more important to maintain optimum distribution of the product. The place to be is in the Middle East for these job opportunities.\n\nPublic Utilities - Industrialized nations are contunially modernizing their utility operations by introducing and advancing their automation systems. Usually, such engineering is performed by engineering firms specializing in process control and SCADA systems. The U.S. has many large engineering firms that design such systems for clients  globally. \n\nGood luck to you!
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Information technology (IT, also known as Information and Communication(s) Technology (ICT) and Infocomm, especially in Asia) is a broad subject concerned with technology and other aspects of managing and processing information, especially in large organizations.\n\nIn particular, IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and retrieve information. For that reason, computer professionals are often called IT specialists, and the division of a company or university that deals with software technology is often called the IT department. Other names for the latter are information services (IS) or management information services (MIS), managed service providers (MSP).\n\nIT (information technology) is a term that encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange, and use information in its various forms (business data, voice conversations, still images, motion pictures, multimedia presentations, and other forms, including those not yet conceived). It's a convenient term for including both telephony and computer technology in the same word. It is the technology that is driving what has often been called "the information revolution."
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Basically it's a complex mathematical process to process the vibration response data obtained from siesmic excitation of an oil field to characterize the field in terms of parameters understandable to the analyst (e.g., porosity and impedance). See the ref.
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The program provides hands-on training in applying computer technology to the field of accounting.\n\nThe rapid development of computer and information technology in the last 20 years yields the demand for professional human resources. \n\nWith the coming of the new millennium and free trade era, the challenge and competition in the field of information technology and accounting is getting more competitive. Professional and highly qualified workers have become a necessity.