THE PI SYSTEM INoil&gas

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1 THE PI SYSTEM INoil&gas

2 The key to improving both profitability and performance is the ability to use real-time data to measure them and know exactly what your process is doing. The PI System infrastructure makes these data accessible across the organization to a wide variety of users in real-time. The original PI System from OSIsoft made its debut in an oil refinery in By now in version 3.3, the PI System currently monitors 40% of the world s entire refining capacity (outside of CIS and China). The PI System is the most successful and widely used process information system in the industry today. Almost every oil company in the world (including all the major refiners) is currently using the PI System. How the PI System works The PI System is a real-time information management system that collects, records and presents process data for visualization and analysis. PI System client tools (e.g. PI-ProcessBook and PI-DataLink) allow users across the enterprise to access operations data and to analyze the performance of the entire process. New web-based tools are securely extending this reach beyond the enterprise to vendors and their customers. For example, PI-ProcessBook is used to monitor pressure and flow trends at key locations. This has proved beneficial during cold weather operations, and for accessing a historical view of operating parameters anywhere in the system. The PI-DataLink (Excel add-in) tool is used to incorporate pressure and flow information into spreadsheet applications such as pressure or flow profiles for transient analysis. This infrastructure provides easy access to consistent, current and historic operational data for end users and applications. Through a vast library of control interfaces, the PI System collects real-time data from almost any installed instrument, safety shutdown system, PLC, DLC, laboratory and manual entry system. This data is verified and reconciled through Sigmafine and stored in OSIsoft s industry-leading PI Data Archive, where it remains instantly and constantly available for monitoring and analysis on desktops throughout the enterprise. Through a series of PI System client applications, users can develop specific routines for the automation of such tasks as data reconciliation for monthly financial reporting, loss monitoring and analysis, assessment of catalyst decay and governmental/ regulatory reporting compliance. Typically, many other custom applications evolve as the PI System infrastructure overlays your refining operations. Payback is dramatic In addition to the obvious physical benefits of streamlined data management, the PI System makes a big impact on the bottom line. Without a plant-wide process management tool, in our particular case the PI System, it would be impossible for us to reach the efficiency and excellence targets that we are constantly pursuing. PI has already given us the reliability that we need for overall performance information. DAN HAESLOOP Technical Specialist, Chevron Gas Control uses the PI System to help re-create events leading to such problems as the conditions that were prevalent whenever a pipeline or a unit failed. We also use the PI System to determine system efficiency by pulling in historical real-time data to compare against design conditions. WILLIAM CHRISTIAN Chief Controller, Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation

3 For example, a gas transmission company reports tangible time and cost savings. Requests for data from gas control have been dramatically reduced. During the first year, they saved approximately 300 hours of time usually spent writing and processing mainframe queries. Annual mainframe costs were reduced by approximately $35,000 in disk space and $2,000 in tapes alone. Installation and integration is fast and painless The PI System usually installs and is fully operational within four days at a typical facility. The PI System quickly integrates with all your control and other plant and enterprise systems (including SAP R/3) through OSIsoft s comprehensive library of software interfaces. Staff training is facilitated by the familiar Microsoft-compatible interface that drives the PI System s client applications. In fact, the PI System s close Microsoft integration enables almost seamless import-export between the PI System client applications and the Microsoft Office suite. The common industrial desktop environment Everyone you chose to include will share the same data archive and desktop presentation and analysis tools on a 24/7 basis. Every desktop becomes a window into your process The PI System has been used successfully in several instances on dehydration equipment to provide personnel with a means to monitor (in real-time) equipment status and other required parameters (remotely or at the station), and to record and access data relative to critical equipment. The real-time and historical information compiled electronically through the PI System is also being used to meet many of the regulatory, reporting and record keeping requirements for the equipment. in real-time, at any time. Everyone can generate, share, understand and interpret reports, trends and analyses. Everyone will know what s going on. Imagine that. Full freedom Internet and intranet functionality The desktops that display the PI System can be anywhere in the world where they have access to a phone line. The PI System client applications can be securely run through an Internet browser and customized by the user using Digital Dashboards with OSIsoft Web Parts. Internet and intranet developments continue at OSIsoft, where new web technologies are being rapidly assimilated to extend the functionality of the PI System to include application GREGORY LAGO Environmental Coordinator, Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation

4 The integration and ready access to process data that our PI System has given us is a key contributor in our continual pursuit of efficiency and excellence targets that are crucial for success in our business. DAVID STOCKILL Manager, Shell hosting, remote equipment performance tracking, secure remote catalyst and chemical performance tracking by vendors, and wireless/ PDA access. Typical PI System benefits and ROI Within days of installing the PI System, your entire workforce begins to realize the benefits of a common, real-time data environment, such as: Common, constant, current data environment for analysis/reporting Comprehensive monitoring and trending data for planning and preventive maintenance Capability to automate routine environmental/regulatory reporting Scalable access throughout the supply chain, end to end Easily customized user interface, saving expensive consulting fees A workforce transformed from information gatherers into information users How to get the PI System To explore the possibilities of the PI System, you can browse our website at Please see our Oil & Gas brochure online. Or, you can contact Mart Masak, OSIsoft Oil & Gas Industry Manager at (mart.masak@osisoft.com) The PI System is an indispensable tool for departments ranging from modeling, environmental health and safety, gas control, field services, facilities planning, marketing and volume management. The PI System monitors such data types as pipeline pressure, flow rates, volume and energy totals, valve positions, compressor status, station alarms, gas quality and many others. What the PI System does for Oil & Gas operations in terminals Merge disparate data types (SCADA, tank inventory level and calculated mass, loading rack transaction, loading rack continuous, manual data) Marshall data for feed to business systems such as SAP Calculate weight inventory Evaluate inventory in real-time based on web-posted prices Autobuild displays through the PI Module Database in refining and petrochemicals Track slow changes for years (e.g. hydrocracker catalyst degradation) Marshall and normalize process measurements and calculated results (e.g. exchange duty, fouling, kpi) Serve up performance data to catalyst, water, chemical vendors Perform calculations to determine tank composition for mixed crude tanks Determine and monitor loss Characterize assets precisely and consistently for benchmarking by organizations such as the Solomon Survey in pipeline transmission Extend the life of SCADA Expose SCADA to the entire enterprise Sort and view liquid and gas pipelines with PI-Batch Model steady state and dynamic simulations Monitor equipment performance at remote sites in production Track performance of topside and down hole performance Combine data from multiple sites Coordinate real-time data from offshore operations through onshore process engineering and reservoir engineering (optimized extraction) to volume accounting

5 THE PI SYSTEM INoil&gas Process information systems emerged in the oil industry during the mid-seventies when companies began using data acquisition systems to augment the standard, board-mounted alarms in refinery control rooms. By retaining a history of these process variables, people were then able to analyze the occurrences of events, the state of equipment over time and the performance of the process in general. By the early eighties, most of the refineries around the world employed process information systems in some form (sometimes referred to as historians), and their application had spread to production, pipeline transmission and general supply and distribution. The PI System from OSIsoft is the most successful and widely used process information system in the industry today. Almost every oil company in the world (including all the major refiners) is currently using the PI System. EMI: The next generation of the OSIsoft industrial desktop Today, the strategic application of plant information extends well beyond plant gates to both ends of the entire supply chain and throughout the enterprise. The industry term for this web-enabled, super-overview of shared awareness is Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI). OSIsoft is proud to have been recognized as a market-defining leader in EMI by AMR Research. At OSIsoft, EMI defines an entire category of software applications and services that communicate real-time upstream and downstream process information throughout the enterprise through an Internet browser. For example, in 2000 OSIsoft began working to demonstrate a multitude of new capabilities possible with the emergence of web-based technologies such as XML, the PI Module Database, SOAP, the PI Advanced Calculation Environment (PI ACE) and Microsoft s Digital Dashboard technology. By applying these technologies and leveraging the strength of the PI System s data infrastructure, OSIsoft has demonstrated the practicality of remote application hosting, as well as offering an environment for a refiner s catalyst and chemical suppliers to remotely track their products performance. OSIsoft s thin client offerings are making more real-time data available to more people by allowing access to advanced features of the PI System through Digital Dashboard Web Parts. The components of an individual s dashboard allow the user the flexibility to choose how to view and analyze plant data through an Internet browser. This technology also gives plant personnel access to plant data via wireless devices such as cell phones and PDAs that support the wireless web. And that s only the beginning.

6 OSIsoft is the leading global supplier of software products for managing information in the process manufacturing industries OSIsoft was founded in 1980 as Oil Systems, Inc. by Dr. J Patrick Kennedy. The company became OSI Software, Inc. in 1996 to reflect its broader focus into additional markets. Since the beginning, OSIsoft s growth in both revenues and product installations has been consistent. By 2000, OSIsoft s revenues hovered at around US $63 million, and the number of active PI System installations worldwide had grown to exceed 3,500. Of that number, 800 are in the oil and gas and petrochemicals industries. Since its debut in 1983, OSIsoft s PI System remains the company s flagship product, the most successful process data application suite in the world. In 1999 OSIsoft acquired Sigmafine, a rigorous data reconciliation software product which is currently being integrated into the PI System. Together with recent developments such as the PI Module Database, embedded VBA and the RLINK certified interface to SAP R/3 (plus over 200 other industrial systems), thin client technology and an ever-increasing client application and interface library, the PI System remains the premiere real-time information and development environment for both intranet and Internet deployment throughout the global enterprise. OSI Software, Inc. San Leandro CA Mayfield Heights OH Houston TX Seattle WA Johnson City TN Philadelphia PA Weybridge UK Sao Paulo Brazil OSI Software Ltd Auckland New Zealand Perth Australia Sydney Australia OSI Software GmbH Altenstadt Germany OSI Software Asia Pte Ltd Singapore Copyright 2001 OSI Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Visual Basic for Application (VBA), ActiveX and Internet Explorer are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. The PI System is a trademark of OSI Software, Inc.