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News Release from: Transmitton | Subject: Gas pipeline SCADA
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 September 2004
More work in the pipeline for
Transmitton
A long-term connection has led to international software control company Transmitton being selected to work on a 235 kilometre gas pipeline project between Bacton in the UK and Zeebrugge in Belgium
A long-term connection has led to international software control company Transmitton being selected to work on a 235 kilometre gas pipeline project between Bacton in the UK and Zeebrugge in Belgium The company has been working for gas pipeline operator Interconnector since 1997, when they installed a SCADA monitoring system for supervisory control and data acquisition on the 40-inch sub-sea pipeline ranked one of the top five most critical service assets in the UK
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 19 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Interconnector operates and maintains the pipeline for shareholders and gas producers and this latest project, which includes the installation of compression in Zeebrugge, has netted a contract for Transmitton, worth around GBP750,000, and due to finish at the end of next year.
Currently compression machines at Bacton provide the capacity to export 20 billion cubic metres of gas a year to Zeebrugge.
But with the yield of home gas fields falling and the UK gas consumption rising, compression is now being applied to the bi-directional pipeline at Zeebrugge to allow 26 billion cubic metres of gas annually to be imported into the UK.
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The project involves another important implementation of the company's core real time SCADA product cromos, already being widely used in oil, gas and rail industry applications worldwide.
The upgraded system will allow the pipeline to be controlled from Bacton (UK) and remotely monitored from the Interconnector head office in Conduit Street, London and also from Zeebrugge and Brussels, Belgium.
Transmitton project manager Julian Randle said: "We will be providing the SCADA system element for this upgrade, which is the computer control system that allows operators to monitor and control the functioning of the pipeline.
The software will be revised, modified and upgraded to cope with the updated system and the cromos software adapted to communicate with other vendors ESD (Emergency shutdown detectors), fire, gas and pc systems, using industry standard protocols.
This is a very important contract for us.
The gas industry is shrinking in the UK, making it a highly competitive market, and we are delighted to be involved in what is a significant upgrade of one of the country's major assets.
It is also important to us that our seven-year relationship with Interconnector is to continue and that our previous performance on delivery and service has played a significant part in our reselection for this project.
This is highly skilled work where meeting deadlines is absolutely crucial".
Cromos software, designed and developed by Transmitton, will be at the heart of the monitoring system and the company will also be upgrading the control room environments in Bacton and Zeebrugge.
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