Monitoring & metering
Monitoring in extreme conditions
Whether in upstream, midstream or downstream operations, pipelines play a significant role in the oil and gas industry. In this article, Matthew Hawkridge, chief technology officer at Ovarro, explains how Remote Telemetry Units (RTUs) can be used to optimise the performance and maintenance of oil and gas pipelines.
including corrosion, cracks and leaks are common issues, which companies must resolve quickly and effectively in order to minimise downtime and interruptions and increase efficiency. As well as costly product loss, pipeline
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leakages can significantly damage wildlife and the natural environment and pose a threat to workers and the population. There is therefore a need to constantly monitor the environmental impact of any operations and above all else, ensure the safety of staff and the general public. The most valuable tool in
hile oil and gas pipelines are essential to the industry, they are not fail-safe. Structural failures
meeting this new range of key performance indicators (KPIs) is information; and the most appropriate device to collect and process this information is the RTU. For decades now, RTUs have been a key
component in the data chain from the I/O to the CEO. These devices have a longstanding track record of sitting on remote pipelines, wellheads and offshore platforms, collecting, storing and acting upon data, regardless of the surrounding environment. To date, most RTUs have been used to
collect and log operational data and perform local control. This very same device is also the ideal solution to collect and act upon the new wave of information that is needed for a
modern, efficient and profitable organisation. The RTU is a field mount computer. It
collects data locally, acts upon it immediately, reports data to the central supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) control room and maintains a local historical store as an additional backup.
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