Company signs offshore automation contract

FieldConnex products were supplied mounted into customised stainless steel enclosures and pre-wired to a specification requested by the client.

Pepperl+Fuchs has been awarded a contract to be the Fieldbus interface supplier for a project to automate the floating production, storage and offloading vessel that will develop the Greater Plutonio Deepwater offshore oil fields of Angola.

It will be working with Emerson Process Management on the BP project.

Emerson will implement the Pepperl+Fuchs FieldConnex fieldbus installation system.

The system includes the FieldBarrier, a fieldbus distribution module that combines the three essential physical layer functions of distribution, short circuit limitation and intrinsically safe explosion protection in one product.

For this project, the FieldConnex products were supplied mounted into customised stainless steel enclosures and pre-wired to a specification requested by the client.

Pepperl+Fuchs FieldConnex will interface the field measurement instrumentation to Emerson's DeltaV digital automation system which includes the AMS Suite predictive maintenance software.

These key components of the company's PlantWeb digital plant architecture are at the core of the digital approach that will include more than 1000 smart digital field devices.

The vessel, being built by Hyundai Heavy Industries, will be 310m long, weigh 80,000 tons, and be capable of storing two million barrels of crude oil, with living quarters for 100 crewmembers.

The topside facilities will produce an average of 200 thousand barrels per day of export-quality oil.

All production, gas and water injection wells will be subsea.

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