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News Release from: Invensys Foxboro | Subject: Kuwait Oil Company
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 January 2006
Foxboro automation network for Kuwait
Oil Company
Oilfield gathering centre plant expansion will employ new high speed fault-tolerant mesh technology to integrate multiple generations of I/A Series automation systems
Invensys is to supply a Foxboro automation network for Kuwait Oil Company in an infrastructure modernisation project Invensys Process Systems has been selected to supply a new I/A Series mesh network-based Foxboro automation system for updating and expansion at two Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) crude oil gathering centres in the Burgan fields of South East Kuwait
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 25 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The KOC goals for the modernisation project are to increase production capacity, improve safety and environmental practices, enhance water treatment and decrease gas-flaring.
The overall project also includes gathering centres at several other oil fields, where Invensys will provide the latest I/A Series system hardware and software, including the new Foxboro ATS (Address Translation Station) modules, which allow the new mesh control network to incorporate the KOC prior generation I/A Series control systems into the expansion.
SK Engineering and Construction Corporation of Korea will install the systems.
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Invensys Korea will provide engineering services and a range of technical training and site supervision services.
The Kuwait Oil Company production infrastructure comprises an extensive network of gathering centres that receive crude oil from many surrounding wellheads in the producing oilfields.
These gathering centres throughout Kuwait are large multi-process plants that stabilise the crude in multiple stages, separating gas, water and salts from the crude to meet the specifications required for downstream operations or export shipping.
At each of two Burgan gathering centres, the Foxboro automation network will control a wide variety of processes including separators, desalters, wastewater handling, transmission, gas handling and well testing.
These processes employ myriad gas turbines, pumps, compressors, generators, piping, storage tanks, vessels and other process equipment at each gathering centre.
The award-winning Foxboro mesh network process control system backbone utilises advanced commercial communications technologies in robust industrial configurations.
Providing high-availability, self-healing network performance, the mesh architecture can connect thousands of stations at data speeds up to one gigabit between network switches.
The Foxboro ATS (Address Translation Station) modules will integrate existing I/A Series systems at the gathering centres into the mesh network.
These modules enable I/A Series workstations and controllers on both mesh- and non-mesh-based networks to interoperate seamlessly.
The integrated network will allow KOC to combine the existing and expanded processes into a single process control system with a common operator interface for all process elements.
In addition to preserving the KOC investment in existing controls, the network infrastructure offers the capacity to integrate future control system expansions.
The new implementation will extend Invensys presence within Kuwait Oil Company's gathering centres.
In addition to the existing Foxboro controls at two gathering centres in the Burgan oilfield, KOC presently employs Triconex safety instrumented systems in two other gathering centres located at the Umm Gudair and Managish oilfields in West Kuwait.
These fault tolerant triple-modular redundant systems provide high integrity and unmatched process uptime in emergency shutdown and fire and gas protection applications.
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