Origin Energy: How multimodal integration increased the efficiency of oil flow in Maceió

A strategic asset in the heart of the Northeast

In 2025, Origem Energia took over management of the Maceió Waterway Terminal (TAMAC / area MAC11A), one of Brazil's most important oil logistics assets. Located in the Port of Maceió, in Alagoas, the terminal receives oil from the Pilar field, transported via the Pilar–Maceió pipeline (OPMAC), and transports this flow to ship loading.

With storage capacity distributed across ten tanks—five for crude oil and five for derivatives and ethanol—TAMAC serves as a strategic outflow point. In addition to being a storage facility, it serves as an integrated hub for road, pipeline, and maritime operations, all of which must operate in a synchronized and reliable manner.

The challenge: standardizing and integrating complex operations

Upon taking over the terminal, Origem Energia's mission was to structure processes that ensured efficiency and governance at every stage. This meant implementing mechanisms to ensure accurate measurements of oil and oil product volumes, reconciling inventories according to national and international standards, recording each movement in a traceable manner, and integrating reports and operational documents into a unified system.

Another key factor was keeping all information connected to the corporate ERP, providing real-time reports and dashboards to support quick and secure decisions. The goal was to transform the operation into a digital and agile environment, with complete reliability.

The solution: technology as an integrating link

To achieve this goal, Origem Energia implemented AutoLoad, an AutoMind solution focused on digitizing the liquid bulk logistics journey. The tool brought visibility, standardization, and intelligence to all TAMAC operations.

Each module played an essential role:

The Customer Portal has expanded the autonomy of carriers and partners, with real-time scheduling and consultations.
Smart Scheduling organized loading and unloading windows according to product, available bay and capacity.
Access Control now automatically validates drivers and vehicles, reinforcing safety standards.
Queue Control offered live visibility, application of prioritization rules, and balanced flow management.
The Tanking module incorporated telemetry for monitoring level, temperature and ambient and corrected volumes.
The Inventory allowed daily and monthly stock reconciliation, with detailed traceability by operation.
Integration with ERP ensured continuous synchronization between orders, events and management reports.

AutoLoad was also parameterized for crude oil handling, with automatic conversion calculations, application of BSW (Basic Sediment & Water), and water and sediment deductions in balances. This brought even greater reliability to the closing processes.

The results: efficiency, confidence and competitiveness

With the digitalization of TAMAC, Origem Energia reached a new level of operational integration.

Today, the terminal has:

Process efficiency, supported by real-time data.
Metrological reliability in balances and closures.
Integration of road, pipeline and maritime operations on a single platform.
Flexibility and competitiveness to meet varied demands for oil and derivatives.

This move strengthens Origem Energia's position as a benchmark in governance and efficiency in the sector, in addition to contributing to the advancement of fuel logistics in Brazil.

A milestone for national logistics

The partnership between Origem Energia and AutoMind reinforces the impact of digital transformation on critical infrastructure. AutoLoad has demonstrated its ability to integrate different modes, ensure metrological standards, and offer transparency to the logistics chain.

More than a successful initiative, the TAMAC project is consolidating itself as a milestone for the evolution of national liquid bulk logistics, combining efficiency, safety and governance to benefit the entire value chain.

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Opla Advanced Logistics: Efficiency and Integration in the Logistics Heart of São Paulo

Imagine the following scenario

You're in the heart of Latin America's largest industrial hub, in Paulínia, São Paulo, where millions of liters of fuel flow daily through pipelines, rails, and highways. This is where Opla Logística Avançada has built something impressive—the largest independent ethanol terminal in Brazil.

Opla is no ordinary company, far from it. With the strategic partnership between BP and Ultracargo Logística, coupled with investments, it has become a national benchmark in multimodal liquid bulk operations. Its TCP (Paulínia Fuel Terminal) is a true powerhouse: 182.5 million liters of storage capacity for ethanol, diesel, biodiesel and aviation kerosene.

But even as a market leader, Opla faced a challenge common to many logistics giants: how to intelligently integrate three different modes (road, rail and pipeline) into a 24/7 operation?

The Moment of Transformation

It is in this scenario that AutoMind comes into play, with the AutoLoadIt wasn't just about implementing another system, but about revolutionizing the way one of the country's most strategic terminals operated.

The arrival of AutoLoad in Paulínia was poised to be a milestone. After all, we're talking about connecting refineries, pipelines, and rail lines to the national highway network, right at the epicenter of Brazilian fuel distribution.

The transformation came about through a solution that seemed simple in theory but was powerful in practice. AutoLoad was here to transform operations: its modules integrate the process from the terminal to the ERP—or, as we say in Opla's case, "from the instrument to SAP"—end-to-end, ensuring orchestrated, fluid, and perfectly synchronized performance.

THE Customer Portal gave carriers complete autonomy to schedule their operations without relying on phone calls or extensive email flows. Scheduling system began to distribute the operational windows intelligently, like a conductor organizing each entrance and exit.

THE Access Control brought automated security, while the Queue Control offered something every terminal dreams of: full visibility of what's happening in real time. No more wondering where each truck is or when the next train will arrive.

The Results Speak for Themselves

Each operation now has complete traceability, and process security has reached a new level. While the gatekeeping work, which was previously performed manually using spreadsheets, is now performed within the system, streamlining the team's work and increasing employee satisfaction. However, the impact goes far beyond the numbers. By implementing AutoLoad in Paulínia, OPLA not only modernized its terminal, it also implemented the growing digital transformation process in Brazil's liquid bulk sector.

More than Technology, a Vision of the Future

This partnership between AutoMind and Opla represents something greater than a simple technological implementation. It's proof that when you combine the expertise of those who operate the largest independent ethanol terminal in the country with the innovation of those who develop the best logistics solutions, the result is transformative.

For AutoMind, having AutoLoad operating in Paulínia confirms that its technology is present at the most strategic points of Brazil's logistics infrastructure. For Opla, it ensures that its 182.5 million liters of capacity operate at maximum efficiency.

Ultimately, AutoLoad in Paulínia wasn't just an arrival, it was a quiet revolution that is redefining how Brazil moves its fuels.

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Petrobras evaluates the contract with Automind at a level of excellence

The contract started in 2014 included Technical Assistance Services on board the Platforms, and Metrological Management carried out on land for the Measuring Systems of the P50, P52, P53, P54, P55, P62, P74 Platforms and just Metrological Management of the Measuring System of the FPSO-NIT platform.

The objective was to guarantee the integrity of fiscal, appropriation, operational and custody measurement systems, maintaining compliance with the requirements of the Technical Measurement Regulation approved in Joint Resolution ANP/INMETRO No. 01:2013. The services were performed in accordance with the requirements of ABNT NBR ISO 10012:2004 and ABNT NBR ISO/IEC 17025:2005.

In order to carry out calibration services for the instruments that make up the measurement system, Automind structured a Calibration Laboratory Accredited by the General Coordination of Accreditation of INMETRO (CGCRE), according to ABNT NBR ISO/IEC 17025 (Brazilian Calibration Network - RBC), able to carry out services in its facilities, in the client's facilities and in mobile installations.

“To carry out the contract, we invested in the development of the team, equipment, standardization of processes and implementation of the Management System, resources that had a direct impact on obtaining the evaluation level of “Excellence” by Petrobras, reaching an average score of 93% for the four years of contract”, informed Carlos França, Business Leader at Automind.

In order to expand the services performed by the laboratory, Automind is obtaining the update and extension of the scope of accreditation for the calibration of instruments for measuring pressure (-97kPa to 100MPa), temperature (-140°C to 1700°C) and dimensional for inspection of orifice plates and straight measurement sections, with linear, roughness, shape, position and orientation measurements on various parts.

One of the investments made during the contract period was the development of a product to support the management team in monitoring and diagnosing the process variables of the measurement systems. The developed product, called AUTOMED is an Integrated Product for Management of Measurement Systems, which has functionalities for monitoring variables of the measurement and process system, generation, diagnosis and sending of production files, management and registration of production data, failure notification of measurement systems measurement, test management of production wells and measurement equipment integrity.