Production • Processing • Handling
Oil and gas companies now collect and analyse massive quantities of data to ensure the quality, safety and profitability of their profit. Leading facilities use laboratory information management system to manage these data in real-time. Colin Thurston reports.
Ahora, las empresas de petróleo y gas recogen y analizan grandes cantidades de datos para garantizar la calidad, seguridad y rentabilidad de sus beneficios. Las plantas más importantes utilizan sistemas de gestión de información de laboratorio para tratar estos datos en tiempo real. Informa Colin Thurston.
Öl-und Gasunternehmen sammeln und analysieren heutzutage enorme Datenmengen, um die Qualität, Sicherheit und Rentabilität ihres Ertrags sicherzustellen. Führende Einrichtungen benutzen Laborinformations- und Managementsysteme, um diese Daten in Echtzeit zu verarbeiten. Colin Thurston berichtet.
LIMS helps LNG facilities ensure product quality
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ccessing, producing and transporting natural gas is a complex undertaking. Te facilities charged with harvesting natural
gas typically operate by transporting natural gas via pipelines to a production facility, converting it to liquefied natural gas (LNG) using a cooling process and shipping it to customers around the world. Given the many steps involved with these operations, many modern LNG facilities, are backed by state-of-the- art laboratories that constantly analyze output content and product quality. A Laboratory Information
Management System (LIMS) is an essential tool for managing the large quantity of data generated by these laboratories during the process of extracting and refining natural gas. All LNG facilities, regardless of location, must comply with local environmental, health and safety regulations. Adherence to these ever-tightening regulations
requires the ability to accurately and securely capture, store, track and analyse large quantities of data. Te laboratory must also perform quality testing of gas, process monitoring at plants, testing at upstream facilities as well as environmental monitoring across the plant facilities. Te plant’s laboratory must provide real-time, round-the-clock, consistent analytical services, results and advice in a timely, accurate and reliable manner. Many laboratories supporting LNG facilities have moved away from cumbersome paper-based and/or manual systems and replaced them with flexible data management solutions, such as a LIMS.
Understanding the process A typical LNG laboratory provides analytical services to the LNG facilities. Tis includes generating analytical reference data for product quality and custody transfer invoicing, calibration of in-line process analysers,
Fig.1. A typical LNG laboratory provides analytical services to the LNG facilities. This includes generating analytical reference data for product quality and custody transfer invoicing, calibration of in-line process analysers, plant performance, equipment condition and environmental monitoring.
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