FOXBORO, MASSACUSETTS, USA – February 1, 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 Schönkirchen-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). Easier adoption of such technologies is a priority for OMV Austria Exploration and Production GmbH, as are the requirements for an open system that uses a commercial off the shelf (COTS) platform and a faster response time from its operators. The company also wants the ability to better document its hardware and software assets in order to reduce maintenance costs. 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, a business unit of Invensys plc, provides products, services and solutions that enable today’s industrial enterprises to monitor, manage, and improve the performance of their assets. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions and SCADA groups, Invensys Process Systems includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 sites across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants to the world’s largest upstream production and pipeline projects, refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills.The Invensys Group 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.
