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News Release from: ABB Automation Tech (Instrumentation + Automation) | Subject: De Ruyter platform
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 January 2005
Fast track automation project for N Sea
platform
ABB has been awarded a project worth over £2.5 million to provide the entire automation and instrumentation suite for the Petro-Canada De Ruyter oil and gas production platform
ABB has been awarded a project worth over £2.5 million to provide the entire automation and instrumentation suite for Petro-Canada's De Ruyter oil and gas production platform The first new build offshore platform to use Foundation Fieldbus, it will also use the new ABB safety controller (SIS)
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 17 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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De Ruyter is a new production platform that will be built in the Dutch North Sea some 60 km offshore from The Hague.
Scheduled to come on stream mid 2006, ABB will deliver the automation and instrumentation systems in August 2005.
Awarded against a competitive tender, ABB won the contract for its ability to produce the whole system as a single package.
ABB will be working closely with Petro-Canada on the design as an integrated team.
Based on the 800xA extended automation system, the ABB scope of supply includes a control and safety system based on the ABB AC800M and AC800Hi Safety Controllers (SIS), Foundation Fieldbus for process control and HART for other control and safety I/O.
As a composite solution ABB will also supply all field instrumentation, including pressure and temperature transmitters, flow elements, level transmitters and magnetic flow meters, many of which will be ABB Foundation Fieldbus and Hart compliant devices.
For this project, ABB has started immediately after award.
Key requirements of the work are guaranteed performance and the ability to control changes in design.
Pip Clark, project manager for ABB, says: "The work is to be completed in nine to ten months.
Having significant resources and expertise in the UK will provide us the confidence in completing the contract on time.".
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