Telvent bags IT contract from Pertamina Gas
Tuesday, January 25 2011 - 05:05 PM WIB
Under the contract Telvent will supply integrated data acquisition and advanced natural gas administration applications to Pertamina for its pipeline network Gas Management System. The new real-time critical infrastructure system will improve security, operational efficiency and provide additional expansion capacity and revenue potential for the operator, the company claimed.
Under the new contract, Telvent supervisory control and data acquisition (OASyS SCADA) system and advanced Gas Suite applications will be deployed at the Jakarta Headquarters and five local pipeline Area Control Centers serving North Sumatra (SBU), South Sumatra (SBS), West Java (JBB), Kalimantan (KAL) and South Sumatra (JBT).
The new OASyS information management infrastructure installed at these centers will combine real-time and historical measurement data to yield comprehensive, timely measurement, quality, and accounting information. The Gas Management System will be vital in helping Pertamina meet optimization goals for its pipeline networks operations, receipt and delivery operations and improve overall business performance, it added.
PT Pertamina Gas Director of Operations, Gusti Azis, related how regulatory changes in oil and gas fields in Indonesia have impacted operations and his expectation for the new gas management and monitoring systems. "Since 2002, regulatory changes have resulted in separation between upstream and downstream business sectors. Downstream transmission and distribution of gas production, which had been a part of the upstream sector, is now implemented as an open access system so that existing infrastructure can also be used by the downstream sector. This project will help to smooth commercial operation and monitoring for gas transmission and distribution across both upstream and downstream sectors." (alex)