LNG Supply Chain

• World's largest LNG terminal relies on CENTUM to maximize safety and reliability.
• It is very important for KOGAS to be able to adjust flexibly to shifts in demand in the gas that it supplies to power plants, industrial companies, and residences.

• Yokogawa provides CENTUM CS 3000 and ProSafe-RS for the largest LNG terminal in Europe.
• Yokogawa's OmegaLand plant operator training simulator (OTS) helps to reduce costs, optimize LNG terminal processes.

• OTS for familialization of liquefaction processes and operator training.
• Yokogawa's integrated solutions contribute to safe and steady production at gas liquefaction plant in Norway.

• DCS, SIS, PRM with FOUNDATION fieldbus and OTS Installed in Thailand First LNG Terminal.
• Alarms are issued before any device fails completely, enabling predictive maintenance that reduces maintenance costs throughout the facility lifecycle.

• CENTUM CS 3000 ensures safe and reliable operation of one of the world's most advanced LNG carriers.
• Yokogawa successfully installed a CENTUM CS 3000 integrated control automation system(ICAS).

• MISC could be ensured of better information visibility, performance foresight, and operational agility.
• Yokogawa CS 3000 system has proven in both the Tenaga and the Seri Class LNG carriers that their hardware is very reliable with very less problem.

• World's first offshore regasification terminal relies on Yokogawa ICSS (CENTUM CS 3000, ProSafe-RS).
• LNG carrier scheduling, unloading, tank storage, and vaporizing are all procedure based operations.

• Legacy ProSafe-PLC SIS replaced with ProSafe-RS to improve sustainable lifecycle support at LNG terminal.
• The seamless use of the same HMI for both PCS and SIS, and improved safety and integrity.

• Scalable, flexible configuration with functions distributed to multiple controllers on a facility basis
• Redundant architecture optimally designed for requirements of entire plant
• General-purpose communications network used for control bus
• Integrated operation environment through web-based human-machine interface (HMI)

• A phased upgrade approach from CENTUM CS to CENTUM VP was planned to meet tight LNG carriers schedules.
• The collaboration using CENTUM VP and APC provides optimization of gas liquefaction operation.

• Operator training system for the critical LNG processes had been built to reduce human errors and achieve operational excellence.
• The high fidelity modeling of LNG liquefaction process closely matches the behavior and operational environment of the actual plant.

• Hibiki LNG Terminal is supplying natural gas to a broad area of northern Kyushu.
• CENTUM VP and FA-M3V provide a centralized monitoring environment and contribute to safe and stable operation.

An automatic custody transfer system for unmanned LNG gas stations that embeds PC oriented functions such as e-mail, FTP, and the Java runtime environment in a robust hybrid controller.

With industrial and economic development comes increasingly large and advanced power plants and factories. Nevertheless, we find many cases where the original cables, cable tunnels, and other components of the power infrastructure have languished under continuous operation.

Monitoring of Soundness of Power Supply Bus Bar (In-vehicle Lithium-ion Battery Applications)

Recently, several ARC Advisory Group analysts and management team members had a chance to sit down with the new Yokogawa President and COO, Mr. Takashi Nishijima, and several other top Yokogawa executives to discuss the company's burgeoning presence in the worldwide upstream and midstream oil & gas industry.

Over the past decade, companies have been using unconventional drilling technology to extract gas and liquid from the readily available shale formations in North America. As the industry gains experience, the production rates continue to rise based on better use of technology to locate resources and to decrease the time from exploration to production.

As LNG moves from a niche to a major area of the oil and gas industry, experienced suppliers are required to deliver the technologies that support it. 

Only 5% of data is transferred into meaningful information so, asks Frank Horden, Business Development Manager, Yokogawa Global SCADA Center, USA, how to ensure pipeline management data is translated into valuable knowledge?

July 2010

Martin te Lintelo, Yokogawa Europe B.V., The Netherlands, discusses high level control system design for LNG receiving terminals. As demand for LNG increases worldwide, players face seemingly conflicting challenges. On one hand, they must expand capacity in different regions, make the business and production as agile and adaptive as possible, and improve operational efficiency.

The LNG sector presents challenges for the automation supplier, particularly in the implementation of automation systems for regasification terminals. Yokogawa Europe's business development manager, upstream oil and gas Martin te Lintelo looks at the handling of the potential automation-related problem areas and opportunities.

Platt Beltz and Greg Hallauer, Yokogawa, USA, discuss how simulation can improve operator training in LNG operations.

LNG Industry, Summer 2012

Martin te Lintelo, Yokogawa, The Netherlands, discusses the need for better automation, measurement and control instruments to cope with the rising popularity of LNG.

Assets and operations will have human-like learning and adaptive capabilities, allowing responses without operator interaction to situations within a secure, bounded domain.

As a gateway to further expand Yokogawa's messaging as a One-stop Solution Business, Yokogawa has partnered up with INCIT, to introduce the S.I.R.I. framework. 

Yokogawa South Africa was appointed to design, supply and commission the Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS) as well as the overall Terminal Management System at Sunrise Energy’s liquid petroleum gas (LPG) Import Terminal, the largest on- and offshore open-access LPG import terminal facility in Africa. Yokogawa’s Terminal Management System, Terminal Logistic Suite VP (TLSVP), was designed and developed to meet the exacting operational demands and logistic needs in terminals. Yokogawa’s experienced engineering resources ensured the project was successfully delivered, enabling Sunrise Energy to provide accurate mass balances and efficient terminal operations to its customers.