Wellhead Control Systems Reference List

Automation Systems Project Reference List

Customer: Aquila Energy / Halliburton
Location: Onshore Northern England
Scope: Electric Dual Well Control Panels, Underground Gas Storage
Year: 2001 / 2002

System featured:

• Fully all electric single well control panel
• Control and monitoring of electric tree actuators (MV)
• In and out of sequence timing for the wellhead valves
• Open / close control for each valve with sequenced ESD pushbutton
• Electric fire fusible loop
• Flowline pilot signals integrated into the WCP
• Indication lamps for each valve
• Battery backup for the controller unit

Customer: Occidental Petroleum
Location: Offshore Qatar
Scope: Platform Control System / Fire and Gas System Extension Panels
Year: 2001

8 platforms, each system featured:

• Choke valve and wellhead process control system
• Zone 1 / safe area design (platform dependant)
• Control PLC, GE Fanuc 90-30, I/O system Genius I/O
• Integral IS isolating barriers
• Interface to associated wellhead control panels

Customer: Saudi Aramco
Location: Khuff Gas Field, Onshore Saudi Arabia
Scope: Wellhead PLC Based Control Systems
Year: 2000 / 2001

18 systems, each featured:

• Siemens S5 PLC / RTU design, gas flow computation / choke valve control
• Dual redundant TUV certified safety shutdown PLCs, wellhead valves control
• Hardwire modem connection to Yokogawa SCADA system
• Remote control of CAC single well hydraulic control panel
• Front panel MMI / graphic screen / trending
• Dual power supply, battery backup system
• SOE recording and monitoring / remote download of wellhead parameters

Customer: Dragon Oil
Location: Caspian Sea, LAM and Zhadanov Field Development
Scope: Wellhead Control Panel, PLC Platform Control System
Year: 2000

System featured:

• All components Zone 1 / Eexd design
• GE Fanuc 90-30 PLC
• Integrated fire and gas system
• Motor control center
• Hazardous area MMI / graphic screens, dual language English / Russian
• Interface to Fluenta multiphase flowmeter
• Integrated hydraulic power unit / wellhead control system

Customer: Northland Energy Services Inc.
Location: Offshore North Sea
Scope: Underbalanced Drilling Package, Control System
Year: 2000

System featured:

• All components Zone 1 / intrinsically safe design
• GE Fanuc 90-30 PLC with Genius interface / field control modules
• Communications to third party WITS, gas chromatograph, and SCADA system
• Motor control center
• Hazardous area MMI / graphic screens
• Modular electrical connection system / jumpers
• Integrated hydraulic power unit

Customer: Oil & Natural Gas Commission (India)
Location: Offshore India, GS – 15 & GS 23 Platform
Scope: SCADA System, Fire & Gas System, RTU System
Year: 1999

System featured:

• VHF radio link between master control station and remote platforms
• 25m antenna mast & accessories
• CAC 6500 RTUs and EXS1000 RTUs
• Dual redundant Wonderware Intouch SCADA system
• Fire and gas systems
• Integrated wellhead control panels

Customer: Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company (GUPCO)
Location: Akhen Gas Development Project, Egypt (Offshore Mediterranean Sea)
Scope: CS7000 / CS7X Platform Wellhead Control Panels
Year: 1999 / 2000

Total of 2 systems supplied

• CAC dual redundant CS7X RTUs
• Integrated wellhead control panels
• Radio modems and communication network
• Interface to existing ABB DCS system
• Multiphase separator control and monitoring

Customer: PDO Oman (Shell)
Location: Onshore Oman
Scope: CS7000 / CS7X Control Panels
Year: 2001

Total of 9 systems supplied:

• CAC dual redundant CS7X RTUs
• Radio modems and communication network
• Interface to existing Shell DCS system

Customer: Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company (GUPCO)
Location: ESMA-8 Gas Development Project (Offshore Suez Gulf)
Scope: CS7000 / CS7X Platform Wellhead Control Panels
Year: 2001

Total of 1 system supplied:

• CAC dual redundant CS7X RTUs
• Integrated wellhead control panel
• Communications facilities for future integration to Barton DCS system
• Single well satellite platform

Customer: Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company
Location: Offshore Gulf, ADMA GIP Project
Scope: CS7000 / CS7X Platform Wellhead Control Panels
Year: 1999 / 2000

Total of 7 systems supplied:

• CAC dual redundant CS7X RTUs
• Integrated wellhead control panels
• Radio modems and communication network
• Interface to existing DCS system
• Local Abu Dhabi office support and maintenance

Customer: Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company
Location: Offshore Gulf, Umm Shaif
Scope: CS7000 / CS7X Platform Wellhead Control Panels
Year: 1995

Total of 2 systems supplied:

• CAC dual redundant CS7X / CS7000 RTUs
• Zone 1 design
• Integrated wellhead control panels
• Radio modems and communication network
• Interface to existing Honeywell DCS system
• Control and monitoring of separators, navigation aids
• MTU and MMI provided on shore
• Local Abu Dhabi office support and maintenance

Customer: Fluor Arabia Inc
Location: Saudi Arabia
Scope: Telemetry System
Year: 1999

System featured:

• CAC 6532 RTUs
• Modem link over 8KM twisted pair cable
  Modbus master / slave arrangement

Customer: Georgian Pipeline Co.
Location: Offshore Black Sea, SUPSA Loading Buoy
Scope: Oil Loading Buoy Control System
Year: 1999

System featured:

• UHF transceivers at the buoy and MTU
• Calibrated load pin and transmitter
• Buoy based RTU, CAC1200
• Hazardous area certified solar power system
• Navigation aid control system
• Portable control unit
• Wind speed, sea current and sea current direction monitoring
• GE Fanuc Cimplicity SCADA system at the shore terminal control room

Customer: Occidental Qatar
Location: Wellhead platform IS-R06
Scope: SCADA I/O Extension
Year: 1999

System featured:

• Hazardous area, Zone 1 located
• Exd I/O system incorporating GE Fanuc field control modules
• Isolating IS barriers
• Host PLC communication interface hardware and programming

Customer: Shell, Sri Lanka,
Location: Offshore Colombo, Subsea System
Scope: Oil Loading Control System
Year: 1998 / 1999

System featured:

• Power line communications system, no separate communications cables needed
• CAC manufacture subsea control system electronics
• Subsea hydraulic power unit
• Subsea PLEM valve control system
• 5.5 km subsea umbilical cable
• Dual redundant GE Fanuc 90-30 PLC system topside
• Wonderware Intouch SCADA system at the shore terminal control room

Customer: Zadco
Location: Offshore Zirku Island
Scope: Oil Loading Buoy Control System (Two Buoys)
Year: 1998 / 1999

System featured:

• Dual redundant, hot changeover UHF transceivers at the buoys and MTU
• Dual redundant buoy based RTUs, CAC1200
• Dual redundant voice communication system with path voting
• 6 off portable control units
• Fully redundant antennas for both the onshore and offshore repeaters
• Multiple node QNX based SCADA system at the Central Island control complex

Customer: Bapetco
Location: Onshore Egypt (Desert), BED 2 and 3 projects.
Scope: Single Well Control Panel, Integrated RTU, and Telemetry system
Year: 1990 through 1998

30 systems featured:

• EXS1000 RTUs
• HPU, DC motor powered, single well control panels
• Solar power systems
• Hazardous area certified IS barriers and termination equipment
• Panel operator interface units
• Mix of radio modem / dial-up modems communication
• Central SCADA host computer using Realflex

Customer: PDO
Location: Oman
Scope: Oman LNG Pipeline
Year: 1997

System featured:

• 48 CAC EXS1000 RTUs for EFM AGA gas flow application
• Host link using MODBUS protocol via fibre optic cable

Customer: SNGPL
Location: Pakistan
Scope: Pipeline RTUs
Year: 1997 / 1998

System featured:

• 110 CAC EXS1000 RTUs for EFM AGA gas flow application
• Host link using MODBUS protocol via radio modems

Customer: PDO / Shell Joint Venture
Location: Oman
Scope: EPC Contract, Featuring Civil Works, Tower Construction, and Instruments
Year: 1996 / 1997 / 1998

System featured:

• Three thousand (3000) CAC EXS1000 RTUs for enhanced oil recovery
• Host link using MODBUS protocol via radio modems
• System provides production optimization on gas lift, beam pumped, and ESP wells

Customer: CanOxy
Location: Yemen
Scope: SCADA Host System and Redundant Remote RTUs
Year: 1996

System featured:

• One hundred and twenty (120) redundant 6500 RTUs
• Realflex SCADA system utilizing a WAN between two terminal facility locations
• Auto-failover host computer system

Customer: Occidental Petroleum
Location: Offshore Qatar
Scope: Platform Control RTU Systems
Year: 1998

4 platforms, each system featured:

• Multiple EXS1000 RTUs, hazardous area certified
• Hazardous area certified solar power systems
• Hazardous area certified IS barriers and termination equipment
• Panel operator interface unit
• 450 mhz radio modem and antenna
• Central base radio modem and antenna
• Interface to existing INFI 90 DCS system

Customer: Bechtel / Dabhol Power Project
Location: Offshore India
Scope: Oil Loading Buoy Control System
Year: 1997 / 1998

System featured:

• Dual redundant, hot changeover UHF transceivers at the buoy and MTU
• Buoy based RTU, EXS1000
• Hazardous area certified solar power system
• Navigation aids
• Portable control unit
• Redundant antennas
• Hydraulic power unit

Customer: Petrobaltic
Location: Offshore North Sea / Baltic
Scope: Platform Control System / Fire and Gas System
Year: 1996

System featured:

• Hazardous area Zone 2 rated control room, c/w air conditioning
• Multiple H2S Gas sensors and gas detector cards
• Alarm sounders and lamps
• Control PLC, GE Fanuc
• Panel operator interface units
• Dual redundant UHF radio link to remote wellhead platform
• Interface to associated wellhead control panel
• Realflex 4 SCADA system

Customer: Bechtel / Arabian Industrial Fibres - PTA & Aromatics Plant
Location: Saudi Arabia
Scope: RTU Systems, SCADA System, Telecommunications System
Year: 1998

System featured:

• Hazardous area certified 44 window annunciator panel
• GE Fanuc PLC system
• RS485 / fibre optic link to two remote PLC systems
• Telephone voice links via fibre optic cable
• PABX / fibre optic interface units
• Wonderware Intouch SCADA system
• CAC manufacture 6532 RTU systems

Customer: Saudi Aramco
Location: Onshore Saudi Arabia
Scope: Electric Single Well Control Panel
Year: 1997

System featured:

• Fully all electric single well control panel
• Control and monitoring of electric tree actuators (PWV, MV, SCSV, SWV)
• In and out of sequence timing for the wellhead valves
• Open/close control for each valve with sequenced ESD pushbutton
• Electric fire fusible loop
• Flowline pilot signals integrated into the WCP
• Indication lamps for each valve and graphical operator interface unit
• Battery backup, with redundant chargers, for the controller unit

Customer: Apache Energy
Location: Offshore Western Australia
Scope: Oil Loading Buoy Control System
Year: 1997

System featured:

• Dual redundant, hot changeover UHF transceivers at the buoy and MTU
• Buoy based RTU, EXS1000
• Hazardous area certified solar power system
• Navigation aids
• Portable control unit
• Redundant antennas
• SCADA system at the central offshore platform

Customer: BP Columbia / Bluewater Engineering
Location: Columbia
Scope: Calm Buoy Control System
Year: 1995 / 1996

System featured:

• Dual redundant, hot changeover UHF transceivers at the buoy and MTU
• Buoy based RTU acting as MASTER
• Portable control unit
• Redundant antennas
• SCADA system and GE Fanuc PLC system at the central office site
• Hydraulic control panels for the PLEM valves
• FAD detection interface (hose leak detection)
• Commissioning, installation assistance and start-up on shore and offshore

Customer: KOC / Sofec Inc.
Location: Kuwait
Scope: Calm Buoy Control System, Two Buoys
Year: 1995

System featured:

• Allen Bradley SLC series controller on each buoy
• Communications over an umbilical cable using modems
• Wonderware Intouch SCADA system
• Hydraulic control panels for the PLEM valves
• Navigation aids and associated control system interface
• Solar power systems and backup diesel generator units on each buoy
• Commissioning, installation assistance and start-up on shore and offshore