This consisted of upgrading the consoles to the latest Yokogawa DCS – Centum VP based CS3000 and Windows 2008 Server – Enterprise Edition based Oil Movement System.
Proper planning and good teamwork during the design along with a thorough Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) ensured no shutdown of the Fuel Oil Blender, which is running continuously 24×7. It is worth mentioning that the project team was able to start up the new System by six hours ahead of schedule, due to the excellent coordination between various departments.
The Oil Movement System Package installed in the Refinery Tank Farm is very specialized software to monitor and control the blending of Gasoline, Diesel and Fuel Oil including complicated Tank to Tank, Tank to Units and Units to Tanks transfers. The monitoring, transfer and control operations of Oil Movement from refinery units to Sitra and Blending of Fuel Oil, Diesel and Gasoline is automated for minimum Operator intervention in order to achieve the required properties of products on spec using the property and ratio control as required by the Refinery Operations Planning (ROP) specifications.
Bapco’s Chief Executive, Faisal Al-Mahroos thanked Engineering Division in general and PC & I Department in particular for making this remarkable achievement.
He also hailed the dedicated efforts of the project team for completing the project as per the schedule and within the approved $3million budget.
The project scope involved the installation of new CS3000 Consoles in the Control Room, replacement of redundant Central Processing Units (CPU) along with new Oil Movement Servers in the Refinery Tank Farm Control Building and ROP Office. Taking advantages of the advanced features of the CS3000 DCS, the process graphics and system parameters were also enhanced to provide the operators with up-to-date information for the smooth running of their day to day operations.
The success of the project was possible by the excellent and commendable team work between OS&E, Plant Engineering, ROP, Plant Maintenance and PC&I, Departments.