Petróleo y gas

La Corporación INPEX (INPEX) es la mayor compañía de desarrollo de petróleo y gas de Japón y está involucrada en todos los aspectos de este negocio, desde la investigación hasta la exploración, producción y ventas. La INPEX se dedica a proyectos en todo el mundo, con un total de 29 países, incluyendo Japón, en donde opera una planta de producción de gas cerca de Oyazawa, una ciudad en la prefectura de Niigata.

Yokogawa provided JCCP with an immersive and practical virtual field training curriculum using VR technology JCCP's training with this solution has received high praise from participants in oil & gas producing countries.

Yokogawa provided integrated control and safety system to Banagas's CGP-3 gas processing plant.

N-IO based system contributes to reducing maintenance and other operating expenses (OPEX).

• Solución Integrada SCADA con STARDOM y FAST/TOOLS  para el oleoducto multiproductos de Indian Oil Corporation.
• El STARDOM facilita la visualización completa de los datos necesarios para las operaciones de tuberías seguras y confiables.

Operator Training Simulator helps improve human reliability in a young plant of PetroVietnam Ca Mau Fertilizer.

PVCFC and Yokogawa implemented OTS for third-party control and safety system as a team.

• Exapilot improves operations and reduces energy use at PTT Khanom Gas Separation Plant #4.
• This is a real solution package and a good tool for the plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle to achieve operational excellence in the plant.

• Yokogawa recibe la concesión para la transición urgente de la planta DCS de BP Sharjah.
• Yokogawa fue seleccionada por BP como el principal contratista de automatización (MAC) para un proyecto para reemplazar el DCS existente de la planta de Sharjah con el CENTUM VP de Yokogawa.

• CACT Offshore platform reduces unplanned downtime by migrating from Legacy PLC System to reliable CENTUM CS 3000.
• It is possible for CACT engineers to modify the system configuration, download software updates, and hot-swap I/O cards while the process control system is online.

• Esta es la primera plataforma offshore en Tailandia que está diseñada para hacer uso completo de la tecnología de FOUNDATION Fieldbus.
• Gracias a los sistemas y productos de altamente confiables de Yokogawa, se ha logrado un ambiente de trabajo seguro.

• Finalización del Primer Proyecto FPSO para los Servicios de Producción ProSafe Pte Ltd
• El Control Integrado y el Sistema de Seguridad (ICSS) hacen posible la supervisión de plantas y la administración centralizada de todas las funciones de control y seguridad en esta FPSO.

A Malaysian Gas Processing and Transmission Company a subsidiary of the national oil & gas major, plays a prominent role in the gas business value chain. The company operates as a throughput service company providing the services of processing and transmission of gas to the power generation sectors and various customers. 

• World's largest control systems and PIMS for securing production over an extended period
• Fully-automated, alarm-free operation and reduced total cost of ownership

• Yokogawa completa el reemplazo automatizado.
• Un solo equipo planteado por BP y Yokogawa logró mediante el manejo de la relación comercial abierta, centrada en el desempeño, y de manera colaborativa.

La compañía de gas natural GAIL Limited de la India integra todos los gasoductos de la India por un sistema FAST/TOOLS SCADA de Yokogawa.

• El sistema FAST/TOOLS SCADA de monitoreo centralizado y control de gasoductos de la India.
• Todos los datos de operación pueden ser utilizados directamente para la asignación y la facturación de gas.

• La rápida implementación del sistema integrado de automatización de gasoductos
• La integración completa del paquete de detección de fugas con un sistema de asignación, nombramiento y facturación.

• La solución integrada de Yokogawa ha contribuido a una operación confiable y eficiente.
• Toda la información del instrumento está totalmente integrada con el sistema de manejo de instrumentos.

• NAM needs to remotely monitor field devices and organize their maintenance schedule.
• True value in instrument diagnostics and preventative maintenance with powerful software tools like DTM.

• Yokogawa revamp of control systems at NAM Den Helder plant ensures stable gas supply in the Netherlands.
• Site survey, creation of a function design specification (FDS) from the existing TDC system database, documentation verification.

• Cerca de 1000 dispositivos con FOUNDATION Fieldbus se conectaron al CENTUM CS 3000.
• El PRM proporciona una interfaz de ventana única a todos los dispositivos FOUNDATION Fieldbus y HART, lo que brinda al personal de mantenimiento un acceso rápido.

• El sistema FAST/TOOLS SCADA ha ayudado a NAM a reducir sus costos operacionales.
• Al instalar esto en un sistema existente, el flujo de datos cada vez mayores se volvió más fácil de administrar.

Saudi Aramco's operations span the globe and the energy industry. The world leader in crude oil production, Saudi Aramco also owns and operates an extensive network of refining and distribution facilities, and is responsible for gas processing and transportation installations that fuel Saudi Arabia's industrial sector. An array of international subsidiaries and joint ventures deliver crude oil and refined products to customers worldwide.

• La planta fue diseñada para ser operada sin tripulación, a excepción de algunos miembros del personal de mantenimiento que están estacionados en la planta.
• A través del uso de la última versión del sistema de control y tecnología FOUNDATION™ Fieldbus suministrada por Yokogawa, control de procesos y el monitoreo de diagnósticos de instrumentación de campo se realiza desde ubicaciones remotas.

• Yokogawa's FA-M3 PLC improves efficiency and accuracy at the lubricant blending processes in Thailand.
• FA-M3 is integrated with SFC Excellence's enterprise resource planning and recipe management system.

• Yokogawa provides CENTUM VP subsea and topsides integrated control systems to Stones subsea wells in the Gulf of Mexico.
• The high reliable CENTUM VP system was ideally suited for the world's deepest subsea facility.

Los controladores autónomos de nodo de control de campo STARDOM (FCN) permiten que las funciones maestras y esclavas Modbus se ejecuten simultáneamente. 

The Yokogawa DTSX1 Fiber Optic Heat Detector protects your equipment against abnormal heat events while being more affordable than other heat detection solutions.

Enhance the efficiency and safety of your vapor recovery systems and flare/vent headers with Yokogawa's cutting-edge Tunable Diode Laser Spectrometers – the TDLS8000 and TDLS8220. Elevate your oxygen measurement capabilities with our interference-free analyzers, providing direct measurements. Experience unparalleled reliability, ensuring minimal upkeep and secure operations without the need for system shutdowns.

Hot Spot Monitoring for Safety with a Fiber Optical Temperature Sensor

APPFs consist of various software components in which an autonomous controller can perform control functions without writing custom code. A true turnkey solution.

Temperature Monitoring Solution forMaximum VSD Operating Efficiency
 

One of the most common applications for differential pressure transmitters is flow measurement. DPharp differential pressure transmitters have some unique signal conditioning features to eliminate instability at low flow rates.

Los principales métodos mejorados de recuperación de petróleo son las inundaciones de agua y la inyección de vapor. "Estas tecnologías hacen una enorme contribución a la recuperación de petróleo adicional de los pozos viejos, así como mejoran la recuperación primaria de los campos petroleros en operación."

La configuración del transmisor de nivel puede tomar mucho tiempo. Los transmisores DPharp tiene la función de un software avanzado eliminando esta tarea que toma tiempo. Con talleres de mantenimiento cada vez más pequeños, la búsqueda de equipos que nos permiten hacer más con menos se convierte en una prioridad.

HART communication is a means of transmitting multiple signals by superimposing long-standard 4-20 mA DC analog signals on digital signals. The figure below is an example of connecting field instruments and upstream devices using HART communication compatible VJA1/H signal conditioners.

El uso de petróleo reciclado como fuente de energía presenta un problema de procesamiento significativo. El ADMAG CA ha demostrado proporcionar la medición de flujo de manera confiable y estable del petróleo reciclado que contiene agua.

The paperless recorder DX series instruments allow you to determine temperature and humidity, and manage the results as manufacturing and quality data at a reasonable cost with a simple configuration.

Floating-point format calculations have enabled physical quantities (in engineering units) to be used in calculations.

• Effeciently controls the inlet valve and blow-off valve when the compressor starts and stops.
• During steady operation, controls the inlet valve so that the amount of discharged compressed air becomes constant (flow control)
• Surging: Load decreases, the amount of discharge flow and pressure drop, and a limit is exceeded, possibly destroying the compressor.

Remote leak detection for pipe line was needed to meet new environmental statute. However cabling earthwork is strictly restricted to protect land environment.

The client wanted to monitor the pressure of the gas well at offshore platform remotely to reduce maintenance cost and increase safety of maintenance personnel.

Heat exchangers are devices that provide the flow of thermal energy between two or more fluids at different temperatures. Heat exchangers are used in a wide variety of applications. These include power production; process, chemical and food industries; electronics; environmental engineering; waste heat recovery; manufacturing industry; and air-conditioning, refrigeration, and space applications. Yokogawa offers a means to control heat exchanger leakage and prevent costly maintenance, repair and downtime with an easy-to-use, virtually maintenance-free condensate conductivity measurement method.

The client wanted to monitor the injection gas pressure of gas lift remotely in central control room. Antitheft measures are needed to install new equipments and cables.

Ion Exchange is a method for the exchange of ions between two electrolytes or between an electrolyte solution and a complex molecule. In most cases the term is used to denote the processes of purification, separation, and decontamination of aqueous and other ion-containing solutions with solid polymeric or mineralic ion exchangers.

A battery room is used to storage batteries for emergency power management in the plant. Each substation has battery room and the storage batteries are lead-acid batteries which must be maintained within specified operating temperature limits. Temperature management is important to ensure a long service life of the batteries especially for the plant in desert climates.

ISA100 wireless temperature and pressure transmitters.

To defray energy costs, many industrial plants have their own boilers to generate steam to produce a portion of their energy needs. In addition to generating power, the steam may also be used directly in plant processes or indirectly via heat exchangers or steam jacketed vessels. 

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), or also known as LP Gas or auto gas, is a mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as a fuel in heating appliances and vehicles, and increasing replacing chlorofluorocarbons as an aerosol propellant and a refrigerant to reduce damage to the ozone layer.

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.

The U.S. refineries represent approximately 23 percent of the world's petroleum production, and the United States has the largest refining capacity in the world. Petroleum refining is an industry, which is undergoing intense amounts of scrutiny in the United States from regulatory agencies and environmental groups.

NH₃ injection lowers NOx in stack flue gas, boosts dust collection efficiency, and prevents erosion. Precise measurement and control of NH₃ are crucial to avoid excess use, which increases costs and causes odors. The TDLS8000 solves these issues with direct measurement for effective NH₃ management.

In this Yokogawa RAP Best Practices eBook, you’ll discover how our wealth of knowledge about Integrated Safe Systems and Control of Work is available to help you and your teams design and implement a system that best suits your needs.

A Basic Guide to Accurate & Reliable Flow Measurement.

Get Connected: Advancing Workers and Capabilities
In this whitepaper by Shahzad Khan, you will learn how to use collaborative, integrated, optimized, and autonomous operations to integrate your systems and emerging performance metrics.

By downloading this whitepaper you will learn how to:

• Connect operations, systems, processes, maintenance, and goals
• Empower employees digitally, to improve their decision-making skills
• Gain access to immediate improvements to production efficiency

Recientemente, varios analistas del ARC Advisory Group y miembros de la gerencia tuvieron la oportunidad de sentarse con el nuevo Presidente de Yokogawa y COO, Sr. Takashi Nishijima, y varios otros altos ejecutivos de Yokogawa para discutir la presencia mundial de la compañía en la industria del gas y el petróleo.

Alarm management is not just a project that has a start and end date; it's a continuous cycle. Once the alarm system has been reviewed and improvements have been identified, we must check that controls are in place to ensure the alarm system remains functional. The key is to ensure that the system is continuously monitored and any changes are fully documented. There are seven key steps for alarm management. Rationalization is one of those critical steps.

Tuning PID controllers can seem a mystery. Parameters that provide effective control over a process one day fail to do so the next. The stability and responsiveness of a process seem to be at complete odds with each other. And controller equations include subtle differences that can baffle even the most experienced practitioners. 

The whitepaper discusses the importance of safety culture in achieving a smarter and safer working environment. It highlights statistics on work-related accidents and diseases, the cost of poor safety culture, and the need for a true safety culture achieved through company leadership.

On-site digital champions can drive your operation towards data integration and a more aligned way of working.

The worlds of process automation and production management have been converging for some time. What once used to be islands of automation and production management functionality connected through highly proprietary integration schemes that were costly to maintain have developed into integrated platforms that provide seamless data exchange between the world of automation and the plant floor, the functions of production and operations management, and integration with business level systems.

When selecting a Level Measurement device, what to consider in order to be accurate and repeatable?

The world of process automation is governed by procedures. While we like to refer to the process industries as being largely "continuous", this could not be further from the truth. Process manufacturing is constantly in flux.

From engineering to installation, commissioning, operations, and maintenance, FOUNDATION fieldbus offer significant cost reductions of 30 percent or more versus conventional analog systems. Many of these cost reductions come from the advanced functions that fieldbus offers versus analog technology.

Digital twins are dynamic digital representations that enable companies to understand, predict and radically reorient their business processes.

The automation suppliers that will be successful in the long term will be those that effectively address application or industry specific problems for end users with a value proposition that cannot be ignored. These problems exist throughout the process industries today, and they won't be solved by simply offering a product, but through a combination of hardware, software, services, application expertise, and knowledge.

In ARC's view, customers need a compelling business value proposition to justify investment in any kind of automation. Vigilance and VigilantPlant were created with this in mind. Yokogawa's vision with VigilantPlant is to create an environment where plant personnel and operators are well informed, alert, and ready to take action. 

Yokogawa ha recorrido un largo camino en hacer que su mensaje sea claro en el mundo de la automatización de procesos. El año pasado, la compañía se embarcó en una campaña global de marketing a gran escala para que los clientes conocieran el enfoque de la compañía en la confiabilidad del sistema, su seguridad, constancia y durabilidad. Denominado "Vigilancia", la campaña creó un mensaje unificado para la empresa y en gran medida ayudó a aumentar la difusión de la marca Yokogawa y la filosofía de la empresa.

Los usuarios finales de procesos automatización están bajo más presión para hacer más con menos. La situación económica actual hace que muchos proyectos de capital de automatización estén en espera. Con los presupuestos de capital más limitados que nunca, los usuarios en lugar de enfocarse en los presupuestos de operaciones (en donde también la reducción de costos es una preocupación clave), o en las inversiones de automatización con un rápido retorno de inversión.

In today's dynamic industrial marketplace, the only constant is change. Raw material costs, energy costs, market demands, environmental and safety regulations, technology, and even the nature of the labor force itself are constantly changing, and not always in predictable directions.

Discovering your Baseline with OT Security Risk Assessment

Discovering your Baseline with OT Security Risk Assessment

La migración de DCS de una refinería proporcionó una oportunidad para volver a configurar y consolidar las salas de control y sistema de administración operativo.

July 2011

Process plants are run according to operational procedures. These procedures consist of a set of tasks that are executed in a consistent manner to achieve a specific objective, such as starting up, shutting down or transitioning a unit as part of making a product. 

The EPA rule, 40 CFR 63 Subparts CC and UUU, is forcing refineries to monitor flares. Fortunately, modern analyzer technology makes it possible to meet the requirements, generate the necessary reports, and stay in compliance.
Here’s how to select the right analyzer to meet these demands.

In times of abnormal operations, systems are configured to produce lots of data – humans are not configured to handle or interpret them. However, when presented with the right information, in the right context, during an abnormal condition, humans are able to do things machines cannot.

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.

Septiembre del 2009

En asociación con Saudi Aramco, Yokogawa está proporcionando la ejecución de proyectos locales incluyendo pruebas e implementación de una política continua de Saudización.

Agosto del 2006

Muchos trabajos publicados hablan sobre los beneficios de los HIPPS submarinos así como muchos estudios muestran el potencial de análisis de costo-beneficio de esta tecnología en habla sobre los sistemas que ya han sido entregados y operan con éxito.

Eduard van Loenen y Frank Horden, de Yokogawa, describen la utilización de un moderno sistema SCADA como una plataforma de colaboración central para reunir las operaciones, el mantenimiento y las fuentes de información en tiempo real en un ambiente de visualización integrado.

Sólo el 5% de los datos se transfiere como información significativa, así que pregunta a Frank Horden, Gerente de Desarrollo de Negocios, del Centro Global SCADA de Yokogawa, Estados Unidos, ¿cómo asegurar que los datos de administración de las tuberías se traduzcan en conocimientos valiosos?

Chevron turns to deeper relationships with fewer suppliers to increase project execution consistency

Using wireless for gas detection is a very flexible method, and allowed ExxonMobil to establish it as a redundant system

Trinity integrated Systems' iDefine Suite reduces errors and streamlines design of safety instrumented systems

Natural gas pipelines are among the last users of pneumatic controllers, but a more modern digital approach provides many benefits.  Clayton Wilson, Control Instruments Division Manager, Yokogawa Corporation of America, provides a comparison of the two different methods.

Offshore, February 2013

Offshore and deep-water production has been a significant factor in the sustained growth of the oil and gas industries over the past decade and this trend is expected to continue beyond 2013. 

Honeywell and Yokogawa have both been producing Distributed Control System (DCS) platforms for decades, and both are very active in this area. In 1975, Honeywell introduced its TDC2000 platform and Yokogawa brought out CENTUM. These two competing systems emerged from a similar place, oil refining and petrochemical industries, so they started out with similar basic concepts and use cases in mind. 

Machines can support humans when facing a stressful situation. Using a standards-based approach can reduce the likelihood of a problem escalating.

Pipeline & Gas Journal, February 2014

The line of functionality between supervisory control and data acquisition and distributed control system is blurring.  These two traditionally disparate technologies are now seen as competitors in similar application environments.

Extend your differential pressure transmitter's range with affordable isolation solutions, shielding it from extreme process temperatures and corrosive fluids.

The YSS1000 setting software (hereinafter referred to as the YSS1000) is package software to configure the functions of the YS1000 series (hereinafter referred to as the YS1000) devices. Writing and reading of parameters and user programs of the YS1000, and PID tuning and monitoring of user programs can be performed through the use of communication.

UACS alarm shelving allows operators to temporarily suppress or "shelf" certain alarms. This can be useful in situations where an alarm is not critical or requires further investigation before an action is taken. Shelving an alarm typically means that it is acknowledged but not actively alarming, so it can be reviewed for later action.

This video introduces Unified Alarms and Conditions Server (UACS) for CENTUM VP. It covers some basic capabilities of UACS. UACS is a centralized alarm management system that helps to drive compliance with ISA 18.2. UACS is responsible for implementing and maintaining the alarms throughout the management life cycle.

ROTAMASS is the integral and remote type Coriolis Mass Flow Meter. Both types have highly refined digital signal processing electronics, so that accurate and stable mass flow measurement is achieved.

It is the most technologically advanced mass flow meter yet. By combining the superior design of the application specific flow sensor and transmitters with the Total Insight philosophy and functionality, the flexibility of the ROTAMASS to adapt to changing  requirements guarantees performance throughout the lifecycle of the process measurement.

How much do you know about pressure transmitters? Are you accurately, quickly and reliably measuring pressure? Ultimately, the drive of any good pressure transmitter is to get an accurate, reliable pressure measurement to the data user quickly. This video gives you the answers to your basic questions about pressure and pressure transmitters.

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. 

Watch the film by KBC who are supporting their clients in their efforts to address climate change and sustainability.

Join this webinar to better understand which manifolds you should use for specific applications and conditions. You will learn:

• A brief history of manifolds
• An overview of the different types of manifolds that are available
• The advantages, disadvantages, and application considerations you should consider when selecting a manifold

This workshop provided by industry partners Yokogawa and ThreatConnect will show you a way to strategically manage cyber risk within an industrial environment. Learn how to transition from the “break/fix” model of industrial cybersecurity to a business risk management strategy through cyber risk quantification, return on investment (ROI) for industrial cybersecurity solutions calculations, and cyber risk identification.

Our experts review the theory behind flow measurement technologies. Discuss common flow application challenges and evaluate the different technologies when selecting a flow meter. They also give examples of best installation practices for successful measurements.

Sample systems are a crucial component of and have a significant impact on the performance of a process gas chromatograph analyzer. When working on sample systems, you must have a constant awareness of time delays. This fundamentals webinar will take the mystery out of lag times.