Honeywell upgrade for Dolphin Energy
14 Jul 2010
London – Honeywell is working with Dolphin Energy in Qatar to upgrade its existing Experion Process Knowledge System servers, stations and software online at its gas processing plant at Ras Laffan to further improve the facility’s efficiency and reduce maintenance costs.
The upgrade is to enhance production processes at the plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City, which is the largest single build plant in the world and central to Dolphin’s operations in the region.
As part of the project, Honeywell is to upgrade nine Experion servers and 45 Experion stations to Honeywell certified Experion system hardware platforms. The aim is to allow Dolphin Energy to optimise its integrated control system performance and sustain its automation investments.
The project also includes an upgrade of the facility’s system software to the latest release, including its operating system.
The offline development system will be a small-scale replica of the gas processing plant’s existing integrated control system. this will allow Dolphin Energy to test various migration scenarios without affecting the plant’s productivity.
In addition to supporting a safe and incident-free migration of the facility’s systems, the development system will also facilitate the training of engineers on the Experion platform, said Honeywell.
Dolphin Energy, one of the largest energy ventures in the Middle East, was set up to produce and process natural gas from Qatar’s offshore North Field. The processed gas is then transported to the UAE via an undersea pipeline.
