Invensys wins major SCADA contract from leading Austrian gas storage company
Posted 01 February 2006
Invensys Process Systems Austria has won a contract to supply a SCADA
system based on its I/A Series hardware for a major site revamp being carried
out by OMV Austria Exploration and Production GmbH.
Since 1969, this Vienna-based company has been a European leader in the design of gas storage products. Today its natural gas reservoirs lie along the most important pipelines in Austria and can hold up to 1.8 billion m3 of gas. As part of a revamp of its site near Schonkirchen-Reyersdorf, OMV Austria Exploration and Production GmbH needed to upgrade an aging Entronic legacy control system supplied by Rolls-Royce. However, the system was found to be at its technical limit and could not handle modern technologies such as FDT (field device tool).
The new Invensys SCADA system will communicate with OMV's 121 remote gas wells, its solar turbines, and a remote dispatch center based 20km away from the site. In addition, Profibus DP will be used to communicate with the site's drives and with its fire and gas detection systems. The Modbus protocol will be used for communications with both the gas dispatch station and with the Trident emergency shutdown system that Invensys is also supplying. HART interfaces will be used to link field devices using FDT technology.
Invensys is particularly pleased to have won this contract as it is the first involvement with OMV Austria Exploration and Production GmbH for over 20 years: from 1970-1984 the site used a Foxboro Spec200 control system.
Since 1969, this Vienna-based company has been a European leader in the design of gas storage products. Today its natural gas reservoirs lie along the most important pipelines in Austria and can hold up to 1.8 billion m3 of gas. As part of a revamp of its site near Schonkirchen-Reyersdorf, OMV Austria Exploration and Production GmbH needed to upgrade an aging Entronic legacy control system supplied by Rolls-Royce. However, the system was found to be at its technical limit and could not handle modern technologies such as FDT (field device tool).
The new Invensys SCADA system will communicate with OMV's 121 remote gas wells, its solar turbines, and a remote dispatch center based 20km away from the site. In addition, Profibus DP will be used to communicate with the site's drives and with its fire and gas detection systems. The Modbus protocol will be used for communications with both the gas dispatch station and with the Trident emergency shutdown system that Invensys is also supplying. HART interfaces will be used to link field devices using FDT technology.
Invensys is particularly pleased to have won this contract as it is the first involvement with OMV Austria Exploration and Production GmbH for over 20 years: from 1970-1984 the site used a Foxboro Spec200 control system.
About Invensys Process Systems
Invensys Process Systems (http://ips.invensys.com),
a business unit of Invensys plc, provides products, services and solutions
that enable today's industrial process plants to monitor, manage, and improve
the performance of their manufacturing assets.
The Invensys Group (www.invensys.com)
is made up of five businesses: Process Systems, APV, Eurotherm, Rail Systems
and Controls. The Group is headquartered in London and is listed on the London
Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.