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		Refined Past, Progressive Future. Coggins International is a global consulting, systems integration and technology services company built on the legacy of its founder, Keith Coggins—aka “the rock star of fuels.” The company was officially established in 2006, but its origin can be traced back to the summer of 1978 when Keith Coggins formed Coggins Systems, Inc. (now Varec, Inc., an SAIC company), in response to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s need for fast track automation during the 1970s energy crisis. As a result of Keith Coggins’ previous professional history of automation and technology innovations with the U.S. Navy Petroleum Office and other government organizations, Coggins Systems was selected to provide a complete, turn-key automation solution for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)—the largest stockpile of government-owned emergency crude oil in the world, to include a computer-based instrumentation and control system. The success of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve automation program catapulted Coggins Systems into the oil & gas industry and by the early 1990s Keith Coggins created a Microsoft Windows NT-based software product designed for measurement, control and automation called FuelsManager®. This was during the time when the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) was seeking Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software solutions for its new Fuels Automated System (FAS, currently referred to as BSM-Energy) Program. Several major oil companies immediately selected FuelsManager as their corporate standard for automatic tank gauging (ATG) and bulk inventory management applications, making FuelsManager an instant success. In May 1994, Keith Coggins was invited to the Pentagon to present FuelsManager to an executive FAS review committee in consideration of using it as the Base Level automation solution. Coggins Systems was sole-sourced selected by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and was awarded the first FAS Base Level contract in January 1996. Today, FuelsManager is installed worldwide at over 600 U.S. Air Force, Navy, Army and Marines bases, and Defense Fuel Support Points (DFSPs) in support of DLA’s Defense Energy Support Center’s mission. Embracing the open architecture of Microsoft Windows NT, Keith Coggins developed another market leading product he called the 8130 RTU, allowing FuelsManager to seamlessly integrate all major manufacturers’ proprietary ATG instrumentation into a single system. The Coggins Systems 8130 RTU together with FuelsManager completely changed the way the oil & gas industry measures, controls and automates the petroleum supply chain. Over the years, Keith Coggins pioneered many innovations above and beyond those mentioned, including greatly improving Aviation fuels management in the mid-2000s with the introduction of paperless fuels ticketing—part of a patented process he conceived. This refined past is just a glimpse of what is ahead for Coggins International’s progressive future.			“It’s all about fuels.”
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