Petro-Canada installs safety lifecycle software

An exida product story

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jan 2, 2006

exida.com has installed its exSILentia integrated safety lifecycle tool on Petro-Canada's intranet, making exSILentia the preferred software tool for all refinery project SIL analysis activities.

exida.com has installed its exSILentia integrated safety lifecycle tool on Petro-Canada's intranet, making exSILentia the preferred software tool for all refinery project SIL analysis activities.

Petro-Canada is working towards the implementation of the latest functional safety standards within its corporate procedures.

The functional safety standards describe the concept of the safety lifecycle in which functional safety is achieved through a number of steps taken throughout the life of a plant and which employs the concept of quantitative risk reduction targets.

As part of this effort, the use of automated tools was considered to simplify safety lifecycle tasks and strive for consistent implementation of the functional safety standards.

As a result, Petro-Canada has installed the exida exSILentia integrated safety lifecycle tool on its corporate network for use by all of its downstream refinery facilities and offices.

"We have reviewed many of the safety lifecycle tools available on the market; many where able to model the majority of our safety instrumented functions, however only one tool provided a integrated equipment database and third-party 61508 assessment, making safety lifecycle tasks effective and efficient", says Dusan Ondrejech, instrument specialist, process, technology and reliability of Petro-Canada's refining and supply department.

Dusan is responsible for the implementation of the safety lifecycle tools within refining and supply.

Before installation of exSILentia on the Petro-Canada server, the tool was already used for several major expansion projects with considerable success and was praised by both Petro-Canada and the engineering contractors.

exida is an engineering consulting firm specialising in safety-critical and high-availability automation systems.

The key to the company's ability to deliver the cutting-edge and influential knowledge is its team of world-class experts.

These exida partners and staff have pioneered the tools and procedures used around the world for the design, maintenance, installation, and operation of safety instrumented systems.

exida has written the textbooks that are used for teaching automation reliability.

The company also helped to write the standards that the world uses for designing safe automation systems, and wrote the procedures that certification agencies use to verify the effectiveness of safety system hardware.

exida developed the procedures that industry uses to select automation that is both safe and cost-effective.

The company claims that nowhere else can you find the level of knowledge, expertise, and experience possessed by exida.

exida's main offices are located in Sellersville, PA, USA, and Munich, Germany, with a network of service centers in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

If you would like additional information on the exSILentia products, exida, or any of the other products, please visit the exida website.