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News Release from: Invensys Process Systems | Subject: InFusion for CHS
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial Team on 10 August 2006

InFusion-based SCADA for oil pipeline
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Invensys is implementing an InFusion-based SCADA system for CHS liquid pipelines in Montana, USA, to provide real-time control for fifteen pumping stations

CHS has selected Invensys to implement an InFusion-based supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system for the Front Range Pipeline and the Cenex Pipeline These pipelines provide transportation of crude oil to the CHS refinery in Laurel, Montana, and transportation of refined products to markets east, including eastern Montana and North Dakota

The new system will integrate existing third-party programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and monitor and control the data from fifteen pumping stations along the two pipelines.

Communications will be via a Wide Area Network (WAN) utilising fibre optic, VSAT, and dial up links with the different pumping stations.

InFusion View will provide the graphical human machine interface (HMI) for operator visualisation in the Main Control Centre located in Laurel, Montana as well as at each of the fifteen pumping stations.

InFusion Access and Historian will collect and monitor real-time pipeline data from a wide range of device types at the fifteen pumping stations and provide an interface to a centralised third-party historian package for long term data storage.

The Invensys Liquid Pipeline SCADA System replaces two existing SCADA systems, including a legacy Invensys system.

The new InFusion-based system will provide CHS with a more flexible, easier-to-deploy, standards-based data acquisition and business decision support platform that will be able to adapt to future changes in asset configuration and the dynamic pipeline market.

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