Patent ID: 7895134

Claim:
A system for computing an actual sales value or an actual delivery value for all of a plurality of commodities of a commingled hydrocarbon fluid stream, comprising: a. a first processor with first processor data storage in communication with a plurality of sampling devices obtaining a plurality of samples using computer instructions to obtain a plurality of hydrocarbon samples, wherein each hydrocarbon sample is representative of each of a plurality of hydrocarbon fluid streams; b. a plurality of computer instructions in first processor data storage, wherein the computer instructions instruct the first processor to: determine a member of the group consisting of: a mass, a volume, an energy, or combinations thereof, for each of the plurality of hydrocarbon fluid streams; determine a plurality of molecular compositions for each of the plurality of hydrocarbon samples, wherein each of the plurality of molecular compositions comprises a plurality of components; apply a virtual tag to each of the plurality of components, forming a plurality of tagged components for each hydrocarbon sample; communicate the virtual tagged components to a process simulation model for a specified facility; use the process simulation model for the specified facility to compute a theoretical commingled hydrocarbon fluid stream molecular composition and compute a member of the group consisting of: a component mass, a component volume, component energy, or combinations thereof, for each of the plurality of components of the theoretical commingled hydrocarbon stream molecular composition using the mass, the volume, the energy or combinations thereof; and pro-rate the theoretical commingled hydrocarbon fluid stream using the theoretical commingled hydrocarbon fluid stream molecular composition with an agreed upon volume, an agreed upon mass, or an agreed upon energy or combinations thereof, between a buyer and a seller, to form the actual sales value or actual delivery value for the plurality of components in the commingled hydrocarbon fluid stream; c. a buyer processor in communication with the first processor over a first network, wherein the buyer processor is in communication with buyer processor data storage with computer instructions to operate a buyer executive dashboard using information from the first processor, and d. a seller processor in communication with the first processor over the first network, wherein the seller processor is in communication with seller processor data storage with computer instructions to operate a seller executive dashboard using information from the first processor.