Lummus Digital

Contact Us

Strategy that knows
your process.

LUMMUS DIGITAL

Lummus Digital delivers the intelligence your process was built for.

One company across Advisory, Solutions and the Intelligence Architecture — anchored in 110+ years of refining and petrochemical heritage.

A different starting point

Most start from the product. We start from your value chain.

VENDOR PATH

Start with the platform. Bend the operating reality to the product roadmap.

Customer becomes a deployment site. Margin captured by the seller. Domain knowledge sits outside the contract.

CONSULTANT PATH

Smart frameworks. Benchmarked slides. Then walk away before the value lands.

The CEO gets a report. An RFP follows. Bidders compete on price. Specificity dies.

LUMMUS DIGITAL ADVISORY

Start from where margin is captured, lost, and contested across your enterprise. Work inward from there to the answers, the assets, and the platform.

One conversation that runs from boardroom to plant floor — vendor-independent by design, anchored in 110+ years of refining and petrochemical heritage, accountable through delivery.

Four Service Lines

Each service line is led by senior practitioners with operator backgrounds — former refinery leaders, process engineers, and digital transformation executives who have run the assets they now advise on.

  • 01 Strategy & Transformation
  • 02Operational Excellence
  • 03Energy Transition & Decarbonisation
  • 04M&A and Capital Projects
01
Service line

Strategy & Transformation

Board-ready digital and operating-model strategy for refining, petrochemical and process-industry leadership.

We translate enterprise ambition into asset-specific roadmaps, business cases that survive CFO scrutiny, and RFPs that reflect what the operation actually needs — not what a vendor wants to sell.

Diagnose
Digital maturity assessment
Design
Transformation roadmap
Architect
AI, data & digital platform strategy
Integrate
Integrated solutions architecture
Procure
RFP shaping & vendor selection
Defend
Cybersecurity & risk mitigation
02 Service line

Operational Excellence

Margin, yield, energy and reliability programmes anchored in the physics of your process — not in generic benchmarks.

We diagnose where value is leaking across crude-to-product, design the interventions, and stay through delivery. Backed by 110+ years of refining and petrochemical operating heritage.

Process
Process design & optimisation
Simulate
Process simulation & digital twins
Asset
Lifecycle asset management
Perform
Asset performance review
Integrity
Asset integrity & safety
Operate
Refining & petrochemical operations
03Energy Transition & Decarbonisation

Energy Transition & Decarbonisation

Boards commit to net-zero pathways. Investors demand Scope 1, 2, and 3 disclosures. Regulators tighten the envelope every year. None of it changes the fact that decarbonisation is, at its core, a process problem.

Furnaces, hydrogen networks, steam systems, catalysts, and unit envelopes decide what is actually achievable — and at what cost to margin. Every credible transition pathway eventually has to survive contact with these realities. Most don't.

Lummus Digital Advisory exists because this is where licensor-grade process knowledge becomes decisive. We start where the molecules and the metal are, and work outward to the strategy. That sequence — process truth first, pathway second — is what separates a decarbonisation plan that gets executed from one that gets revised.

04 Service line

M&A and Capital Projects

Independent commercial and technical diligence on acquisitions, joint ventures and major capex.

Furnaces, hydrogen networks, Licensor-level depth in process technology, value-chain economics and execution risk — applied to deals, partnerships and capital decisions where the difference between a good and a great answer is measured in nine figures.

Diligence
Buy-side & sell-side analysis
Value
Asset & corporation valuation
Capex
Capital project advisory
Portfolio
Portfolio assessment
Transact
Acquisition & divestiture support
Exit
Exit strategy & trade optimisation

Three Proprietary Frameworks

Each framework is vendor-independent, built through real engagements, and owned by the client we build it with. Three lenses for three different boardroom questions.

F R A M E W O R K 0 1

Infrastructure for Intelligence

The diagnostic that maps where your data, processes and decision rights are ready for intelligence-led operations — and where they need work before any platform can deliver value.

Originated at the Chatterjee Group Executive Forum, UC Berkeley.

Data

Interoperable
data

Vast siloed data made interoperable across the enterprise value chain.

AI / ML

AI/ML-driven
benefits

Optimising efficiency, yield, and emissions through advanced analytics.

Process

Process improvement & innovation
Transformative gains in design, workflow, and innovation cycles.

People

Knowledgeable workforce

Skill, retention, and decision rights matched to autonomous operations.

R & D

Accelerated
R&D

From ground to table for novel materials and process discoveries.

Capital

CAPEX
reduction

Streamlined project lifecycles with rework engineered out from FEED.

F R A M E W O R K 0 2

Value Chain Margin Optimisation

We map where margin is captured, lost and contested across your full value chain — from feedstock and equity positions, through production and processing, to trading and end-customer markets. Vendor-independent by design. 01 Feedstock & equity CAPTURED 02 Production CONTESTED

For leadership teams who treat margin as an enterprise problem — not a single-asset problem.

F R A M E W O R K  03

The Intelligence Readiness Index

A board-ready view of where you sit, where your peers sit, and what specifically must change before any platform investment delivers.The diagnostic that maps where your data, processes and decision rights are ready for intelligence-led operations — and where they need work before any platform can deliver value.
Stage profile

Nascent

Data fragmented across silos, decision rights informal, no defined intelligence operating model. Most platform investments at this stage will not return their business case.

  • Data

    Fragmented

  • Process

    Implicit

  • Org design

    Functional silos

  • Decision rights

    Undefined

Stage profile

Emerging

Pilots in flight, but value capture is local and reversible. Cross-asset learning is rare, decision rights still tied to legacy roles. Platform spend outpaces enterprise readiness.
  • Data
    Partial integration
  • Process
    Documented
  • Org design
    Hybrid teams
  • Decision rights
    Inconsistent
Stage profile

Defined

Enterprise data fabric and governance in place. Process intelligence is institutionalised at flagship assets. Decision rights mapped to value, but execution still depends on heroics.
  • Data
    Governed
  • Process
    Institutionalised
  • Org design
    CoE established
  • Decision rights
    Mapped
Stage profile

Optimising

Closed-loop optimisation across asset clusters. Hybrid models calibrated unit-by-unit. Talent, data and decision rights aligned to a measured operating model. Margin gains are systematic.
  • Data
    Federated
  • Process
    Calibrated
  • Org design
    Operating model
  • Decision rights
    Aligned
Stage profile

Intelligent

Autonomous operations across the value chain, with humans setting envelope and intent. New molecules, new feedstocks, new markets accommodated by the same intelligence layer. The competitive moat is the operating model itself.
  • Data
    Live + autonomous
  • Process
    Self-tuning
  • Org design
    Adaptive
  • Decision rights
    Embedded in the model
LEVEL 01
Nascent
Stage profile

Nascent

Data fragmented across silos, decision rights informal, no defined intelligence operating model. Most platform investments at this stage will not return their business case.
  • Data
    Fragmented
  • Process
    Implicit
  • Org design
    Functional silos
  • Decision rights
    Undefined
LEVEL 02
Emerging
Stage profile

Emerging

Pilots in flight, but value capture is local and reversible. Cross-asset learning is rare, decision rights still tied to legacy roles. Platform spend outpaces enterprise readiness.
  • Data
    Partial integration
  • Process
    Documented
  • Org design
    Hybrid teams
  • Decision rights
    Inconsistent
LEVEL 03
Defined
Stage profile

Defined

Enterprise data fabric and governance in place. Process intelligence is institutionalised at flagship assets. Decision rights mapped to value, but execution still depends on heroics.
  • Data
    Governed
  • Process
    Institutionalised
  • Org design
    CoE established
  • Decision rights
    Mapped
LEVEL 04
Optimising
Stage profile

Optimising

Closed-loop optimisation across asset clusters. Hybrid models calibrated unit-by-unit. Talent, data and decision rights aligned to a measured operating model. Margin gains are systematic.
  • Data
    Federated
  • Process
    Calibrated
  • Org design
    Operating model
  • Decision rights
    Aligned
LEVEL 05
Intelligent
Stage profile

Intelligent

Autonomous operations across the value chain, with humans setting envelope and intent. New molecules, new feedstocks, new markets accommodated by the same intelligence layer. The competitive moat is the operating model itself.
  • Data
    Live + autonomous
  • Process
    Self-tuning
  • Org design
    Adaptive
  • Decision rights
    Embedded in the model

How We Engage

Advisory is the front door. The same accountability runs through proof-of-value deployment and enterprise scale — under one brand, one contract structure, one team.

PHASE 01

Strategic Advisory

Maturity diagnostic, opportunity mapping, asset-specific business case — output: a transformation roadmap framed in process intelligence.

PHASE 02

Proof of Value

Targeted deployment on the unit identified in advisory. Not a pilot — a production deployment, operational from day one.

PHASE 03

Enterprise Scale

Expansion across the refinery and additional sites, advisory team staying engaged to track ROI and build the next-step case.

CASE / 01

HPCL

"Operational from feed cut-in."

LC-MAX Digital Suite at HPCL Visakh. Live the day the unit started producing — not 18 months later. The benchmark for what “production deployment from day one” actually means.

Read the case →

Start Your Journey Today – Book Your Appointment Now!

Contact Us