2003-09-03 -
Major IndustrialIT installation on offshore production facility
Perth, 3 September, 2003 - ABB has successfully commissioned a major new IndustrialIT process control system (PCS) on Woodside Energy Ltd’s Goodwyn A (GWA) gas production platform on the North West Shelf off Western Australia.
The system is the first of its kind in Australia, namely an offshore web-enabled system with the provision to be controlled and managed remotely as well as onsite. Importantly, it also provides the foundation for Goodwyn A’s PCS to continually integrate other technologies as they become available, thanks to the ABB Industrial IT open architecture.
The $1.5 million project involved an upgrade of Goodwyn A’s legacy Bailey management command consoles (MCS) that had been in use since the early 1990s. The new system uses ABB’s OperateIT Process Portal B software in a dual system architecture, whereby two identical systems are configured to provide very high system availability. It was commissioned without requiring a platform shutdown.
Local ABB expertise played the primary role in formulating the project scope and in executing this new, fast-track project, within an integrated Transfield Worley Woodside Alliance team.
ABB has been supporting the Goodwyn A control system from its Perth office for more than a decade, providing maintenance and engineering services for all PCS modifications.
Industrial IT is ABB’s patented concept for linking products and services together with the information needed to run, monitor and maintain them. It represents ABB’s vision of future industrial systems, where IT is harnessed at nearly every stage of the industrial process to increase efficiency and profitability.
ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 133,000 people.