Automation in the downstream sector
Digitalization creates new opportunities for making industrial processes more versatile, more individual, and more effcient. Key components for this are integrated concepts for production, from data acquisition and analysis to strategic decision-making. SCADA supports you with solutions ranging from data collection and analysis to business models and strategic decision-making. These solutions enable you to extract valuable information from your data in traditional control room setups and combination with cloud-based solutions.
Automation in the Oil and Gas Industry
Oil and Gas processing has 3 keys areas, namely
- Upstream: Exploration, Field Development, Production Operation
- Midstream: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution
- Midstream: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution
- Downstream: Refining, Market
The upstream sector involves the search for underwater and underground natural gas or crude oil elds and the drilling of exploration wells.
Automation in the upstream sector
The principal role of the SCADA system in the upstream sector is remote data transmission, the Scada system helps prevents blowouts, veries the safety of pumping, and watches out for the integrity of the wellbore. It reads the measured ow and level data and sends the set points to the plc. The plc then compares the measured ow to the set points and adjusts the parameters as required. Once the product is crude oil or natural gas out of the ground it must move down the river to the midstream sector. This sector of the industry handles the transportation and storage of crude oil and natural gas. There are many ways to transport this product including trucks, ships, trains, and pipelines.
Automation in the midstream sector
Oil field companies are strict with their pipeline processes the need for accurate and up-to-the-minute control and monitoring is critical to ensure that their products ow safely and thus these midstream companies automate pipeline and transportation processes. The plc control system in the oil and gas pipeline is used to monitor the parameters such as temperature, pressure, and flow by the means of all kinds of automatic monitoring instruments and control equipment. The oil and gas are transferred to a storage facility before they can continue down to the refineries.
Automation in the downstream sector
Once they arrived at the refineries, we are oficially at the downstream sector. Here, the crude oil and gas are refined and processed into finished products. The storage tanks are equipped with overfill prevention systems that prevent a spill. A floating sensor rises with the level of liquid in the tank and triggers an automatic shut-off valve when the desired level is reached. The excess oil flows into a gravel line concrete trap where it then gets flushed into a special tank called the gravity settler. In the downstream processes, the SCADA systems supervise PLCs and IPCs which are focal points for a plant’s inputs and outputs. It also provides the human-machine interface to provide the current and previous state of the plant to the operator under one roof.
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AUTOMATION SOLUTIONS SERVICES
ITEC Solutions focuses since day one on helping dierent Industrial companies to implement new products and technologies quicker and more efficiently leading to optimizing plant operations as well as, improving competitiveness and profitability. We optimize our customer’s development by presenting industry focused solution and regulated information systems. Our path for this success comes from the services that combine a comprehensive line of software and hardware products, engineering services,
ENGINEERING
TEC’s engineering personnel provide a full range of engineering services
PROPSAL
ITEC engineering team has a record of studying, writing and putting into practice dierent inquiries and proposals. Our engineers will assess every client’s current technical system and organize subsequently a technical offer to develop or modernize the existing technology. To fully succeed into every Plan our client’s support is highly recommended, effective proposal that will meet the customer’s technical needs and budget requirements.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
ITEC will assign a project manager to each. The project manager will be the client’s single point of contact throughout the phases of contract execution. He will be responsible for coordinating all works required in the various project stages. The project manager will need a contact person within our customer’s team for smooth coordination
SYSTEM DESIGN & INTEGRATION
The system design phase of any project incudes concept assumption and identifying a system solution. To write down the exact system that matches a client’s need, it is indispensable to have faultless communication between a group of engineers whose mutual knowledge contains an in- detail understanding of the required process, the technical features and phases of the system, what is the environment in which the system will be implemented, any external inuence, and the know how being applied to the problem.
To make this possible, our engineers are skilled in developing
- Wiring and fabrication.
- Drawings loop diagrams
- Interconnect diagrams.
- Point to point drawings.
- All wiring and fabrication drawings conform to CE rules and international regulations.
- Standards and all loop interconnect diagrams conform to global standards. In addition, all drawings are drafted on workstations using the latest version of Engineering Base from Ecotec
- We also supply system configuration, detail design drawings, systems integration, programming, and equipment specifications, including field and communication devices.
TRAINING
ITEC’s engineering personnel has performed wide range training courses for many products and systems. We provide training material, simulation equipment if required, computers and other peripheral equipment. We can provide training on site or at our facility
AUTOMATING THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY FROM WELLS TO WHEELS
Digital transformation promises more efficient processes, greater plant availability, raised asset and resource flexibility. However it takes a strong partner to leverage every benefit of digitalization for oil and gas industry. We will be at your side every step of the trans- formation journey, offering innovative, connected, and sustainable solutions for electrification, automation, and digitalization. As an industry leader, we understand your challenges and can provide you with a comprehensive, flexible portfolio that meets all your demands along the lifecycle. We help companies in the oil and gas industry to master the transition into a sustainable future, offering cloud-based solutions with the highest cybersecurity standards at the core of all our connected products. Digitalization for oil and gas industry means that equipment such as process instrumentation, gas analyzers, and motors can send and receive data increasing plant transparency and creating valuable insights for operators to make well-informed decisions. With more control comes more safety and efficiency. In a highly competitive market, we offer solutions that are scalable from single plant sections to vast petrochemical complexes. Thus, we enable you to get a competitive edge and take advantage of the potential of digitalization to the fullest.