Why we need Automation in O&G

Technologies such as sensors and control systems as well as data collected  analysis ( Data mining), providing new opportunities to implement the automation system in the oil and gas industry.

By harnessing these technologies and their application in order to make decisions and take actions in a proper manner in proper time, companies can improve the productivity of their assets and prevent environmental accidents to increase the safety and health in their plants.

Many oil and gas companies, regardless of their location, faces to some issues that make their efforts to achieve sustainable productivity growth, complicate. We believe that the implementation of automation systems can play an important role in addressing the challenges in the oil and gas industry.

Increasing volume and complexity of activities in difficult and remote locations (such as polar regions, offshore and deep water), make it essential to make remote control, automatic and semi-automatic and logistic in line with productivity. These companies require effective maintenance schedules to maintain the profitability of production.

Limit of zero for injuries, environmental, health and safety make it essential also to presence of automation system to closely monitor the production process, transmission and consumption.

Recent experiences in oil and gas industry show that, such events can threaten not only be profitable but will put the operator in danger.

Now automatic production equipment, condition monitoring and predictive systems are the main requirements for preventing or reducing the occurrence of catastrophic events in the operation of remote and geographically dispersed environments.

Developments in the oil and gas industry  require increasing efforts towards coding many common analysis and decision support processes and if possible implementation of them in the automation system.

Challenges

Implementation of automation system comes with its own challenges. Today, an intelligent oil field contain components, equipment and systems, digitally wired. An offshore production platform may have more than a few thousands data that some of them is not necessary. Better business decisions and operational data into the floods, require new capabilities carefully designed to incorporate, analyze and present the data and the tools to support decision making.

Oil and gas industry leader now expand their use of analytical models for predicting failures in major equipment. downstream is possible. This next phase also includes the use of process simulation to test failure scenarios to analyze the outcomes of the platform in case of  engineers and operators malfunctions.

Clearly we can say that the competition in order to increase the use of automation in oil and gas production is essential. Companies that successfully use sensors, big data analysis and use of new technologies, to meet the challenges facing the industry will be in a good position.

FASBA Services

Engineering Services

FASBA company using the experience of its staff in the engineering and design services in the fields of oil and gas automation systems, able to provide the following services:.

• Engineering and design of SCADA and Telemetry systems in Oil and gas pipelines, oil and gas fields, supervisory systems for production and transportation and consumption process and also control of production and transportation flow

RTU systems usually used in this project to collect and monitor the process. Since the communication media is the basic platform to carry the process control system, so control systems and communications platform in the form of one projects can be seen. Additional tools such as leak detection systems, analytical systems considering the importance of the project may be placed on the agenda.

Similar experiences in the field of electricity, particularly in terms of technical capabilities required systems that are higher or at least similar with the field of oil and gas is one of our capabilities. While FASBA’s capabilities in the design and implementation of business analytics software and decision-makers assistants can be FASBA’s value-added services in this field.

• Engineering and design of Process Control Systems in Refineries, Petrochemical plants, Gas Compressor Stations, Oil pump stations and oil and gas platforms

Due to the nature of such projects, from one or several DCS system used to collect data, process,  control and monitoring of the production process. For Emergency cases ESD and F&G systems are used. PDCS systems for electric utility and power plant control systems used and the use of PLC systems for control of different packages are also usual.

FASBA company relying on the experience of its technical team and the experience of similar systems, has design and engineering capabilities of these systems with the highest international and national standards. In addition, multiple experiences in the field of power systems can play an important role in the management of power systems in the field of oil and gas while that is one of the neglected sectors.