Prometheus is an independent consulting company serving the oil refining industry since more than 25 years. It provides products and services for refinery management that improve profitability, refinery operations, and marketing decisions. From its main offices in Genoa, Italy, Prometheus specialises in Industrial Consulting for the oil process sector: oil refineries surveys, feasibility studies for saving energy, plant capacity, and product quality improvement, process design and technical assistance to refinery operations. The Software Sector offers its proven Decision Support System (DSS) for technical economical optimisation and scheduling of oil and petrochemical industry logistics, processing, marketing, and transportation. As independent company, with extended experience in the private oil sector, Prometheus refinery surveys are oriented towards finding operating conditions and minor de-bottlenecking investments that are able to achieve substantial profitability improvements and to maximise the use of existing facilities. The founder's direct experience in obtaining significant advantages through the use of optimisation software tools led to the development of the DSS software. The DSS couples a friendly modern computer interface with sophisticated refinery models simulating the real process, logistic and marketing conditions, to provide support for oil refinery managers daily decisions.