Communications/Telemetry
Streamlining communications systems
Erik Dellinger describes how one oil and gas company revamped its entire communication structure to achieve improved performance.
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or several years, an oil and gas company’s Pacific Region operation used Wonderware InTouch to communicate critical data on petroleum product pipelines and refined petroleum terminals
among multiple control centres in Texas, California, and parts of Oregon and Nevada. Tese pipelines move refined petroleum gas, diesel, and jet fuel from refineries and pump it to storage and loading racks in various cities. Communications between the geographically dispersed control centres help ensure that the pipelines are operating efficiently and the petroleum products are delivered on time. After converting to an IP communications
standard, the company’s management realised that a more robust system was needed that could provide additional connections to the PLCs in the field. Tey determined that communications software from Kepware Technologies met their specific needs and could integrate with Wonderware’s SuiteLink to build their envisioned communications system. “We have many PLCs from various manufacturers in the field, and we needed to be able to communicate with them,” noted the company’s Systems Manager. “Te native COM driver from InTouch was simply not powerful enough. Kepware was the only vendor who could give us the scalability and visibility we required to achieve centralized communication across the Pacific Region.”
Fig.1. KEPServerEX Communication Platform.
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