Essen, 7.10.2024 – Vienna, Austria, was the destination for the SIMONE Congress on Pipeline Simulation and Optimization 2024, hosted by LIWACOM Informationstechnik GmbH, Essen, in collaboration with SIMONE Research Group s.r.o., Prague. The event attracted more than 95 delegates from 21 countries and 38 companies.

This was the 16^th SIMONE Congress since its inception in 1991, which has been held every two years, with the exception of 2020 when the 15th congress in Sofia was postponed to 2022 due to the pandemic.

The opening keynote was delivered by Helmut Wernhart from Austrian Gas Grid Management (AGGM), based in Vienna, who provided a historical overview of the city and insights into the development of Austria's gas infrastructure.

The technical program focused around three key areas:

- Transformation of transmission networks (from natural gas to H2 or CO2 transmission)

- Training with SIMONE

- Simulation of classical SIMONE applications, such as quality tracking

These topics were presented by customers, who shared their experiences using SIMONE, offering both practical insights and a broader perspective. Additionally, the program included presentations on new features and future developments, such as the SIMONE Web Interface.

The social program continued the SIMONE Congress tradition of exploring local culture and history. Participants chose from five "Old Town Walks," which included visits to an iconic Viennese coffee house, architectural landmarks, hidden courtyards, and majestic sites such as the Hofburg. Other options included a horse-drawn carriage tour and a bus tour of the city.

The day concluded with a congress dinner at Fuhrgasslhuber, a traditional Viennese Heuriger, where attendees enjoyed a classic Austrian buffet of local cuisine. Thanks to the sunny weather, participants relaxed in the cozy courtyard late into the evening.

The organizers, LIWACOM Informationstechnik GmbH and SIMONE Research Group s.r.o., would like to express their heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all the speakers for their excellent presentations.

For more information, including the full congress program and a gallery of photos from the event, visit www.simonecongress.com.

Looking ahead, the next SIMONE Congress will be hosted by SIMONE Research Group s.r.o. in 2026, in Vilnius, Lithuania.

LIWACOM is a leading global provider of pipeline simulation and optimization software.

SIMONE is the industry’s most advanced application for simulating and optimizing natural gas flows in pipeline transportation and distribution systems. Its functionalities include system design, real-time operation, leak detection, and energy billing.

SIMONE is a joint product of LIWACOM and SIMONE Research Group.

LIWACOM, a leading provider of pipeline technology solutions, is pleased to announce its successful participation in the 54th Annual Pipeline Simulation Interest Group (PSIG) Conference held in Charleston, South Carolina, USA, from 7-10 May 2024. This event was a resounding success, attracting 135 participants from across the globe.

The PSIG 2024 Conference featured papers presented by 29 experts in pipeline simulation, including two presentations by our partner in the Czech Republic, SIMONE Research Group. While the conference primarily focused on technical papers and information exchange, LIWACOM showcased a demo system of our flagship product, SIMONE, at a modest stand. This demonstration attracted significant interest from operators and integrators.

Martin Mans, CEO of LIWACOM, expressed his complete satisfaction with the outcomes of the PSIG 2024 Conference and emphasized the company's commitment to innovation in the pipeline industry. LIWACOM extends its gratitude to all attendees for their contributions to the conference's success and looks forward to continuing to shape the future of the pipeline industry.

Looking ahead, LIWACOM is excited to address the specific needs of the gas pipeline simulation community at its prestigious 16th SIMONE Congress, scheduled to take place from 2-4 September 2024, in the historic city of Vienna, Austria.

LIWACOM, a leading pipeline technology solutions provider, is pleased to announce its successful participation at the 19th Pipeline Technology Conference (PTC) in Berlin from 8-11 April 2024.

At PTC 2024, LIWACOM showcased its flagship SIMONE software package, designed for gas pipeline simulation and optimization. CEO Martin Mans, emphasizing LIWACOM's commitment to driving innovation in the pipeline industry, expressed satisfaction with the event's outcomes.

The company's booth attracted a diverse audience, highlighting the industry's interest in SIMONE's capabilities and LIWACOM's range of services, including engineering and consulting.

LIWACOM extends gratitude to all attendees for contributing to the conference's success and looks forward to continuing to shape the future of the pipeline industry.

LIWACOM looks forward addressing specific needs of the gas pipeline simulation community at its upcoming 16th SIMONE Congress, to be held 2-4 September in Vienna, Austria.

LIWACOM is pleased to announce our participation as an exhibitor at the 19th Pipeline Technology Conference (PTC), scheduled to be held in Berlin from 8-11 April 2024.

The PTC is recognized as Europe's leading pipeline conference and exhibition. It offers attendees an insightful view of the future of the pipeline industry, featuring one-day seminars, panel discussions, technical sessions, operator round-tables, award ceremonies, and social events.

LIWACOM is proud to present our integrated SIMONE software package, which addresses the simulation and optimization needs of the gas pipeline industry. Since 2019, our CEO, Martin Mans, has been a contributing member of the PTC Advisory Committee. Martin will, of course, be attending this event and he looks forward to meeting you there. 

SIMONE is a collaborative product of LIWACOM and SIMONE Research Group, operating in different sales territories. In addition to providing support, maintenance, and training for the SIMONE software, LIWACOM offers engineering, consulting, and study services.

If you will be attending the event, we invite you to visit our booth, located at C5. We look forward to the opportunity to connect, share insights, and explore potential collaboration.

Join us at PTC 2024 and let's work together to shape the future of the pipeline industry.

Liwacom is awarded again as a top employer by the portal spitzen-arbeitgeber.de!

LIWACOM earns the much sought-after Top Company Award 2023 at Kununu!

San Diego, May 2022. After a 2-year hiatus, the PSIG Congress was finally able to take place physically again. LIWACOM and SIMONE Research Group were again strongly committed at this year’s PSIG 52th Anniversary Conference held in San Diego.

The main focus this year was on the transition to renewable energies and the new challenges associated with it.

LIWACOM demonstrated the latest SIMONE software developments at the exhibition accompanying the conference, which was, as always, an excellent opportunity to discuss SIMONE solutions to customer needs and requirements.

Martin Styblo from our Czech partner SRG, as a newly elected PSIG Board Member, highlighted in his presentation the effects of increasing hydrogen content in the transportation of Natural Gas.

The Pipeline Simulation Interest Group (PSIG) was formed in 1969. Its purpose is to facilitate the interchange of information and to advance the state of the art in modeling, simulation, optimization, steady-state and transient flows, single and multiphase flows, and related subjects as applied to fluid pipeline systems.

 Sofia, Bulgaria, April 2022.The 15th International SIMONE Congress on Pipeline Simulation and Optimization finally took place April 27-29, 2022. Due to Corona, the long-awaited event had to be postponed for two years.

SIMONE users and interested experts from all over the world met in Sofia to share their experiences.

 The presented papers dealt with topics on the practical use of SIMONE and descriptions of SIMONE integration projects.

Last but not least, “Going Green” was a big theme – several presentations dealt with the forward-looking theme of the future: using the gas infrastructure for hydrogen, coupling of gas and electricity networks for optimizing future demand and analyzing characteristic values for alternative fuels injection.

The communicative atmosphere of the SIMONE Congress is traditionally enhanced by a social event. The evening program was a gala dinner that took place at the National Museum of History, which was the ideal place to enhance the communicative atmosphere of the congress.

For more information and impressions of the congress look at www.simonecongress.com.

On December 9, 2021, a new critical vulnerability impacting multiple versions of the popular Apache Log4j 2  logging library was publicly disclosed that, if exploited, could result in  Remote Code Execution (RCE) by logging a certain string on affected installations.  

The SIMONE software is not affected by the Log4Shell vulnerability!
SIMONE does not install or make use of the Java Library concerned. SIMONE use its own, native logging mechanism.

Essen, May 2021. LIWACOM has got through the pandemic well so far. This enabled us to stay by our corporate goals and not to lose sight of our primary goal, customer orientation. We were able to carry out numerous customer contacts and training courses directly with our online tools. So we have always stayed by the side of our customers, at least virtually.

Despite Corona, LIWACOM can report positive business development. Thanks to an adapted hygiene concept, all employees have so far got through this difficult time healthy and on board in order to offer our customers the reliable service they are accustomed to.

Essen, May 2021. LIWACOM present their new image film to give an insight into the company and the corporate culture. We show who we are and what we do in our new office space.

In the second part, LIWACOM demonstrate the main features and latest software developments of their key product SIMONE, the industry-leading and most advanced standard software application for simulating and optimizing natural gas flows in pipeline transportation and distribution systems.

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Essen, Prague, October 2021. The 15^th International SIMONE Congress was moved to April 27 – 29, 2022 at the Hotel Balkan, Sofia, Bulgaria. 

On  www.simonecongress.com  you will find the congress program, the online registration and the hotel booking link.

Simulation experts from around the world are looking forward to meeting you. For more information on this year's topics, please take a look at the preliminary agenda.
The communicative atmosphere of SIMONE Congresses has been always supported by an exceptional event location. This year the congress venue will be the historical city of Sofia, the capital of the Balkan nation of Bulgaria.

The main organizer of the 15^th SIMONE Congress in Sofia is SIMONE Research Group s.r.o. in Prague, together with LIWACOM in Essen, in a prominent partnership with Bulgartransgaz, Bulgaria.

The 51st Annual Conference of the Pipeline Simulation Interest Group (PSIG),  originally planned to take place in May 4-7, 2021 in San Diego, California, was held virtually during 5 half day sessions running from May 3 to May 7, 2021.

By presenting their brand new image movie and software demonstration film during the Solution Provider Showcase Presentation, LIWACOM demonstrated the main features and latest software developments of SIMONE.

Although the event took place online, it was, as always, an excellent opportunity to show and to discuss SIMONE solutions for customer tasks.

LIWACOM is major global supplier of pipeline simulation and optimization software.

SIMONE is the industry-leading and most advanced standard software application for simulating and optimizing natural gas flows in pipeline transportation and distribution systems. It covers system design, real-time operation, leak detection, and energy billing.

SIMONE is a common product of LIWACOM and SIMONE Research Group.  

The Pipeline Simulation Interest Group (PSIG) was formed in 1969. Its purpose is to facilitate the interchange of information and to advance the state of the art in modeling, simulation, optimization, steady-state and transient flows, single and multiphase flows, and related subjects as applied to fluid pipeline systems.

See the PSIG showcase movie.

Essen, Prague, February 2021. The 15^th International SIMONE Congress was moved to October 27 – 29, 2021 at the Hotel Balkan, Sofia, Bulgaria. 

On  www.simonecongress.com  you will find the congress program, the online registration and the hotel booking link.

Simulation experts from around the world are looking forward to meeting you. For more information on this year's topics, please take a look at the preliminary agenda.
The communicative atmosphere of SIMONE Congresses has been always supported by an exceptional event location. This year the congress venue will be the historical city of Sofia, the capital of the Balkan nation of Bulgaria.

The main organizer of the 15^th SIMONE Congress in Sofia is SIMONE Research Group s.r.o. in Prague, together with LIWACOM in Essen, in a prominent partnership with Bulgartransgaz, Bulgaria.

Essen, February 2020. LIWACOM has moved! You can find us at our new office location Hachestraße 14, 45127 Essen (close to Essen main station).

London, May 2019. LIWACOM and SIMONE Research Group were again strongly committed at this year’s PSIG 50th Anniversary Conference in London.

LIWACOM demonstrated the latest SIMONE software developments at the exhibition accompanying the conference, which was, as always, an excellent opportunity to discuss SIMONE solutions to customer tasks.

The paper presentations included contributions related to the SIMONE pipeline simulator. Together with Marko Haulis of SIMONE Research Group, our customer Balasz Rosta of FGSZ Hungary, presented a paper about net schedule management as a route to dynamic optimization (NSM). He was looking for a tool that can optimize the current situation and nearest future with as low as possible transport cost while fulfilling the contract constraints. His paper presented a study that confirms 4% - 23% daily savings of fuel gas on a medium complexity gas network.

LIWACOM is major global supplier of pipeline simulation and optimization software.

SIMONE is the industry-leading and most advanced standard software application for simulating and optimizing natural gas flows in pipeline transportation and distribution systems. It covers system design, real-time operation, leak detection, and energy billing.

SIMONE is a common product of LIWACOM and SIMONE Research Group.  

The Pipeline Simulation Interest Group (PSIG) was formed in 1969. Its purpose is to facilitate the interchange of information and to advance the state of the art in modeling, simulation, optimization, steady-state and transient flows, single and multiphase flows, and related subjects as applied to fluid pipeline systems.

Groningen, The Netherlands, October 2018. On October 18th the “Go Live” of the Jason project for the new control center was celebrated with the Grand Opening Ceremony at Gasunie headquarter in Groningen. In front of all Gasunie employees a great display showing the gas transport key data was unveiled in the entrance hall in the presence of Han Fennema, the CEO and chairman of the Executive Board, and Bart Jan Hoevers, member of the Executive Board and Director Gasunie Transport Services (GTS). The name of the system from now on is GENIUS.

The pipeline network will be operated by the SCADA system AGMS from Schneider Electric Serbia and the fully integrated simulation package SIMONE. In an image movie the interaction between the AGMS and SIMONE was demonstrated and the functionality was very well appreciated by Gasunie. The movie also highlighted the importance of the daily operation in the control room.

LIWACOM is proud to support this important operation during the next years with a special 10/7 emergency response program.

Gasunie is a European gas infrastructure company providing the transport of natural gas and green gas in the Netherlands and the Northern part of Germany. Our customer has implemented the SIMONE based real-time simulator for the Dutch network with its high-pressure pipelines and regional distribution grid.

LIWACOM is major global supplier of pipeline simulation and optimization software.

SIMONE is the industry-leading and most advanced standard software application for simulating and optimizing natural gas flows in pipeline transportation and distribution systems. It covers system design, real-time operation, leak detection, and energy billing.

SIMONE is a common product of LIWACOM and SIMONE Research Group.

Essen, 8.10.2018 – Madrid in Spain was the destination for more than 96 delegates from 28 countries and 41 companies to join the SIMONE Congress on Pipeline Simulation and Optimization 2018, organized by LIWACOM Informationstechnik GmbH, Essen and SIMONE Research Group s.r.o., Prague.

The congress was the 14^th congress in a row since 1991 and LIWACOM’s 30^th birthday.

The opening speech with a journey back into the past was held by the founding father G. Wagner and supported by J. Kralik.

The main focus of the technical program was on engineering, simulation and dispatching/operations as presented by our customers showing their experience with SIMONE but also providing the ability to take the broader view.

The program was rounded up by giving an outline to new features and development directions.

The social program followed the tradition of the SIMONE congresses to visit places of historical, natural or human interest. The choice was between City Tour, Prado Tour and the Bernabeu Stadium which was followed by the congress dinner held in Casa Patas, a traditional tavern restaurant. After dinner a fascinating flamenco show brought us into the right mood to celebrate the 30^th birthday with a marvelous cake and cava.

The organizers of the SIMONE Congress, LIWACOM Informationstechnik Gmbh of Essen, Germany and SIMONE Research Group s.r.o. of Prague/Czech Republic, would like to express their deep thanks to all speakers for their excellent presentations.

On www.simonecongress.com/2018/ you will find the congress program and some nice impressions of the event at the picture gallery.

LIWACOM is major global supplier of pipeline simulation and optimization software.

SIMONE is the industry-leading and most advanced standard software application for simulating and optimizing natural gas flows in pipeline transportation and distribution systems. It covers system design, real-time operation, leak detection, and energy billing.  

SIMONE is a common product of LIWACOM and SIMONE Research Group.

Essen, 28.11.2017 - LIWACOM has been successfully certified ISO-9001:2015.

Quality and customer satisfaction are the focus of LIWACOM right from the beginning - now our quality management has been successfully certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001: 2015.

Our processes are constantly checked and improved through our quality management system from the first customer inquiry to the high-quality end product.

The ISO certification confirmed that our processes meet international standards.

Essen, 14.3.2017 - LIWACOM releases SIMONE V 6.2 featuring significant enhancements.

This release focusses on new features in the user interface. The new interface is a user-friendly upgrade that allows for a more intuitive user application, without compromising the robust functionality of the program. All the essential functions handling the simulation are now available on ribbons. The commands are easy to find, as they have been grouped according to their use.

Further improved efficiency in the development phase of a network by adding, editing, and deleting labels directly at run-time without switching to the network editor.

A richer and configurable choice of popup displays has been added to the object context menus in the network topology, more flexibly supporting the analysis of results.

For users of the enhanced compressor modelling, a new automatic selection of compressor station configuration can be triggered by requesting AUTO as a configuration in a dynamic as well as steady state calculation.

Last but not least, SIMONE Version 6.2 also features a set of configurable color themes.

SIMONE 6.2 is now available for download for users with a maintenance agreement. For more information on SIMONE 6.2 or other services of LIWACOM, please feel free to contact our experts.