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INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM CYBER SECURITY THE FIRST ISA UAE AUTOMATION CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION
FEATURED PROJECT Oman International Petrochemical Industry Company LLC (OMEPT) - Sohar PTA/PET MARCH 2016
BAPCO - BAPCO MODERNIZATION PROGRAM (BMP) 2016’S ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FOR THE GCC LEADING THE WAY IN SAFETY AND ACCURACY – THE OKAZAKI FAN TYPE
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FIRST WORD INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM CYBER SECURITY THE FIRST ISA UAE AUTOMATION CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION
FEATURED PROJECT Oman International Petrochemical Industry Company LLC (OMEPT) - Sohar PTA/PET
BAPCO - BAPCO MODERNIZATION PROGRAM (BMP) 2016’S ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FOR THE GCC LEADING THE WAY IN SAFETY AND ACCURACY – THE OKAZAKI FAN TYPE
MARCH 2016
Automation Insight! March 2016 Vol. 5 Issue 1 PUBLISHED BY Data Media Systems (for private distribution) President & CEO Mohammed Loch mloch@dmsglobal.net Administration Manager Sara Loch sloch@dmsglobal.net Editor-in-Chief Hugh Wingrove hughwingrove@hotmail.com Editoral Designer Joseph Gelangco jgelangco@dmsglobal.net
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FIRST WORD ANALYTIC REPORTS COMPANY NEWS INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM CYBER SECURITY INTEGRATED OPERATIONS ASSET MANAGEMENT ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL & OPTIMISATION INSIGHT! FEATURE FEATURED PROJECT ADVERTISER’S INDEX PROJECT LISTING DMS CSR
Dear DMS Automation Community, Dear DMS Members, First Word! The press seems to be commenting everyday about the price of oil and you even hear our wives speaking about it during coffee mornings. It’s hard to ignore when the price of oil is at it’s lowest ever and so much of the world’s economies depend so heavily on it. Our jobs rely on it too. We all know that it is priced where it is for 2 main reasons; over-production and under-consumption. Of course the over-production seems to be the biggest problem and will certainly keep prices low for some time to come for 3 reasons; a desire for many in OPEC to win back market share, new production from Iran and Iraq and technological factors that keep US unconventional oil flowing. The latter is something I mentioned last year and continues to drive production costs down especially in the USA making an oil price rebound more unlikely given that so many countries want to benefit from the sale of this resource. Technology is actually our friend since it helps to keep the oil flowing and retain jobs accordingly but we have another friend in the Middle East and that is the need to diversify the economies to make them less dependent on their O&G revenues. In fact the low price of oil is actually helping in driving its development in the Middle East and so this, coupled with the lower costs of production (they can reduce further), we are heading into an era of growth in downstream business rather than upstream in the Middle East and with this a continued increase in power and water use. All this means that the Middle East for some time to come remains the place to be in the world to work and sell automation. I hope 2016 will be everything I believe it will be in terms of our business. Kind regards,
Mo Loch President and CEO DMS Global
Hugh Wingrove Editor-in-Chief DMS Global
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Shell Withdraws from Bab Sour Gas Field Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) comprises several major oil assets within its portfolio. The Bab oil field is located in the onshore area, 150 Km south west of Abu Dhabi city. The 1200 sq. km field is the largest onshore asset in Abu Dhabi based on the size of its area. While the largest part of the area is left in its natural untouched form, specific areas are used for oil and gas installations. The Bab field inhabits a number of reservoirs containing various hydrocarbons including oil and gas, as well as oil rims coated by large gas caps. Through encompassing both oil and gas, the field has a significant importance in the future of Abu Dhabi’s energy industry. The oil production of the field is responsible for one quarter of ADCO’s total production, while gas production is responsible for 75% of the company’s total gas production. While the oil and gas reserves provide considerable benefits for ADCO and Abu Dhabi in itself, the Bab field provides challenges as well. The gas in particular is sour and this means it contains a high amount of hydrogen sulfide, which in turn provides processing difficulties and imposes complexities related to design, engineering, construction as well as costs. Hence, for the reasons expressed ADCO initially joined forces with Royal 4 | Automation
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Dutch Shell to carry out the technically and extremely challenging development, which contains almost 15% of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and 50% of carbon di-oxide (CO2). These complexities meant that the initial scope of work involved expected production of up to 1bn cubic feet of gas per day, while the previous preliminary estimates suggested that Bab could produce up to 1.3bn cubic feet of gas per day. Furthermore, the development of Bab’s deadly sour gas carries great health and safety risks as the field is located close to heavily populated areas and around one of Abu Dhabi’s busiest oil handling hubs, Habshan. Having witnessed numerous challenges assigned to the development of the field, the companies involved in the project are now considering and observing these challenges and how they fit into the currently troubling Oil and Gas sector. Consequently, a recent announcement has been made that Royal Dutch Shell is exiting the $10 million project. Due to the Brent crude traded near a 12-year low, and dripping below $28 per barrel, the complexities of the project have triggered a draw up of the conclusion that development no longer fits into Royal Dutch Shell’s strategy, which extends beyond the current industry climate through to the company’s plans to buy BG group and create one of the biggest oil merges witnessed.
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Qusahwira Field Focuses on Optimisation Study The South East Asset contributes to almost one-third of ADCO's daily production. It covers an extensive area of 7525 km2. Asab Field totals 73.4 % of South East’s Asset production. Sahil Field totals 13.9 %, Shah Field totals a contribution of 12.7 %. The remaining fields associated to the asset include Mender and Qusahwira. As part of the South East Full Field Development, Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) is currently undertaking the development of the Qusahwira field. The Qusahwira oil field is located approximately 260 kilometers south of Abu Dhabi and covers an area of 7,525 square kilometers. Split into phases, phase two of the Qusahwira field development project oil field will contribute an additional 25,000 barrels of oil per day to its current output and in turn it will contribute to approximately one-third of ADCO’s daily production. As far as the scope of work is concerned, the project features a variety of engineering, procurement and construction methods, some of which include: Features and works on the project including installation of new gas injection compressors and new main oil line (MOL) booster pumps, as well as water-disposal pumps. Furthermore, new water-alternating gas (WAG) wells
will be implemented, as well as new flow lines and flow meters to carry out the necessary procedures for effective operation. Production separators are also required once the project is operational as well as the necessary associated facilities required to ensure completion of the project is effective. ADCO intends to deploy all the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques in order to maintain the targeted production plateau as long as possible. As far as the project progress is concerned, the current oil environment and the threatening $ 28 per barrel drop have created a natural slow down and greater cautiousness in many projects including the Qusahwira field. While the front end engineering design has been completed by SNC Lavalin and the project management consultancy contract has been allocated to CH2M Hill, the project EPC award is taking longer time. Throughout the year 2015, the expectations and deadlines for the engineering procurement and construction contract have been delayed with bidding companies anticipating the award allocation. With the start of the year 2016, matters appear to be further delayed, since the project has now focused intentions on carrying out the optimization study before further carrying on with the proposal submissions and the latter award.
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Fujairah Refinery Ownership Negotiations Have Taken The Lead The International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) is developing a refinery complex in the Emirate of Fujairah, close to the ADCOP pipeline and oil terminal and the port’s deepwater oil export terminals. The refinery will process a mixture of UAE crudes and will have a processing capacity of 200,000 barrels per day. Initially, IPIC and Conoco Phillips have signed a heads of agreement to build the new refinery which shall be carried out in two separate packages. Package one, will encompass installation of process units, while package two will focus on the development of utilities, offsites and the required infrastructure. The initial project consisted of the construction of a new refinery with capacity of 500,000 barrels per day, which has been reduced to 200,000 barrels per day. With the anticipated location situated at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz in Fujairah, the feedstock will be supplied from Abu Dhabi’s Upper Zakum Field through a 350-kilometer main oil line pipeline that is funded by IPIC. The extensive scope of work includes installation of naphtha hydro reactors and splitters, twin catalytic 6 | Automation
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reformers, isomerisation units, distillate hydrotreaters vacuum distillation units and hydrocrackers as well as fluid catalyst crackers. As far as the process units are concerned, administration, laboratory and other buildings shall be built. Furthermore, as far as the refinery is concerned, alkylation units, amine treating/regeneration unit, catalytic reformers and condensate distillation unit will be built, as well as crude unit and diesel merox unit amongst many other crucial installations. The project will also requite electrical supply to the main substation. Initially, Shaw Stone and Webster has been appointed as the project management consultant while Technip completed the front end engineering design. Nevertheless, the project has not seen further progress towards the engineering, procurement and construction contract. with bidding companies long anticipating the outcome. In this particular case, the project progress stretches beyond the obvious assumption of the current unstable oil and energy sector. The preliminary and main reason for the delay is the long dispute with regards to the project ownership.
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Full Speed Ahead For Khurais Oil Field Expansion By mid-February 2016, the construction phase for the expansion program of the Khurais oil field finally commences. The Khurais Arabian Light Crude Increment project, as it is also known, is an onshore oilfield development which was initially discovered in 1957. By 2009, the central procession facility at Khurais had a processing capacity of 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil and 320 million cubic feet per day (cfd) of associated gas, as well as 80,000 bpd of natural gas liquids. Khurais is located adjacent to the Ghawar oil field, one of the world’s largest, in the Eastern Province of the kingdom. The current objective of the expansion program is to increase production capacity at the CPF by 300,000 bpd, as well as to enhance production from the Mazalij and Abu Jifan fields. Originally, the planned timeframe for the $3 billion expansion project was slated to be complete by 2017. However, plummeting global oil prices and other cost related concerns caused the project to stall in the first half of 2015. Though the project is important because of the associated gas that comes with the expansion of the oilfield, Aramco has stretched the timeframe for the scheme. Understandably, in light of the current economic environment, the oil giant recently scaled back on some of its projects and has also shelved less
important investments as well as requested discounts on some of the awarded contracts. Contractors awarded jobs on the field have been asked to wait before finalising their contract. Nevertheless, by May 2015, Aramco revives work on the development. At this point the Engineering, Procurement, Construction firms responsible for the execution of the central processing facilities – Italy based Saipem, in a joint venture with Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) – have completed engineering work on the main package and was ready to move into construction phase. There was a point in the second half of 2015 where the future of the Khurais project seemed to be hanging in the balance as Aramco weighs shelving the development. But now the expa nsion of one of the Kingdom’s largest oil fields now looks to be a priority as the state oil giant forges ahead with construction, negotiating with the contractors to accelerate the process. Furthermore, Aramco has commenced execution of the project’s Mazlij-Abu Jafan pipeline, which is being carried out by local contractor Saudi KAD Construction. The seawater pipeline package will be handled by HAK Group while Abdulrahman Shalawi Est. is handling the site preparation work which is nearing completion.
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Master Gas System Expansion Program Phase 2 Bagged by Local Firm Despite Saudi Arabia being one of the top countries globally in terms of year-to-year growth in the gas production perspective, the country’s domestic needs in natural gas for power supply, house cooking, and petrochemical applications are ramping up in such a way that Saudi has maintained a strict zero net import/ export balance for the last twenty years. In practice, the Kingdom is using expensive crude oil to feed power plants and naphtha crackers wherever it cannot provide competitive gas supply. From the 2011 production of 3.5 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of natural gas, Saudi Aramco is aiming at doubling this by 2030 – including the compensation of maturing fields’ depletion. In addition to the challenge in volume, Saudi Arabia has to overcome the geographical spread of the country with resources located in different places from where it would like to grow its economic development – ranging from the Eastern province to the Red Sea Coast. The project will help deliver gas to the Western region, including the King Abdullah Economic City, PetroRabigh, and an independent power plant. Hence the need for the Master Gas System Expansion project, one of the world’s largest hydrocarbons networks. Operated by state-owned giant Saudi Aramco, the project is being implemented in phases, with the second phase currently in execution. Master Gas System Expansion is vital for Saudi Arabia to support the development of its non-associated gas, unconventional
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gas, and related condensate reserves. Construction started on the scheme in the mid1970s as a means to transfer gas across the kingdom to support industrialisation. The system became fully operational in 1982 which allows Aramco to market all of its gas domestically. In October 2013, Saudi Aramco selected the Swiss-based engineering company Foster Wheeler to perform the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) work of the compression stations for the project. The first phase of the expansion will install two booster gas compressor stations and was awarded to Chinese group Shandong Electric Power Construction Corp (SEPCO) in October 2014. Once SEPCO's work is complete by the end of 2016, the capacity of MGS will rise to 9.6 billion cubic feet of gas a day (cfd) from 8.4 billion. Aramco said capacity will further increase to 12.5 billion cfd by 2018 under the second phase. In late January 2016, Saudi KAD bags three pipeline packages worth about $1 billion as part of MGSE’s second phase. The latest deals provide a further signal of the parastatal’s mandate to press ahead with projects aimed at raising domestic gas supply, despite the kingdom’s well-publicised fiscal difficulties. The selection of a local firm for all three packages also forms part of a broader policy seeking to maximise the wider domestic economic benefits of hydrocarbons projects – from the construction phase onwards.
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PTA/PET EPC Bids Now in, OMPET Begins Evaluation
Oman International Petrochemical Industry Company LLC (OMPET), the joint venture of the State-owned companies Takamul Investment Company (Takamul) – 30%, Oman Oil Company (OOC) – 50% and the South Korean LG Corporation (LG) – 20%, is evaluating bids submitted by international contractors for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) of a Purified TerephthalicAcid (PTA) unit and a Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) unit. The plant, when fully operational, will produce 1.1 million tonnes of PTA and 500,000 t/y of PET. PTA is the raw material used to produce PET. It is believed that seven contractors, including Tecnicas Reunidas, Saipem and Hyundai Engineering & Construction submitted Technical and Commercial proposals for the EPC contract on 21st December 2015. OMPET hopes to complete the evaluation of the proposals and award the contract by June 2016. The Front End Engineering Design (FEED) package for the PTA unit license has been completed by the British BP, and the FEED package for the PET unit license has been completed by the Germany Uhde Inventa-Fischer (UIF), with WorleyParsons completing the FEED for the Utilities & off sites. WorleyParsons will also act as the Project Management Consultant (PMC) of the project.
Feedstocks, Paraxylene (PX) and Monoethylene Glycol (MEG), will be supplied by the Sohar Aromatics Complex owned by Oman Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC). Majis Industrial Services will provide OMPET with 30,500 Cubic Meter per Day (m3/day) of industrial water under a Memorandum of Understanding the two companies signed in June 2013. Ompet has leased a 330,000 square meter plot in Sohar Port and Free zone for the project and will use Sohar Port for the import of plant equipment and other raw materials. Although the PIA is to be combined with the PTA to produce PET, the PIA unit is being developed separately from the PTA and PET units. Oman Purified Isophthalic Acid (OMPIA), a subsidiary of Takamul Investment Company, is the developer of the PIA plant. The PIA unit, once completed in 2018, will have a capacity of 100,000 tonnes per year (t/y) of metaxylene/ purified isophthalic acid and will be located in the northern port of Sohar. Feedstock for the PIA plant will be supplied by the undergoing expansion Orpic’s Sohar Refinery and Industrial water will be supplied by Majis Industrial Services Jacobs Engineering is currently finalizing the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) of the plant. MARCH 2016 | Automation
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Oman Independent Water Plants at Bidding Stage
10 applicants, comprising of groups and sole entities of 15 international and local engineering and construction companies, have expressed interest in the development of three major Independent Water Plants (IWP) to be located in Salalah, Sharqiyah and Duqm areas of the Sultanate. The applicants that have submitted Statement of Qualification on 17 January 2016 are: A group consisting of Spanish Abengoa, US’s Seven Seas Water Corporation (US) and the local Modern Channel Services Individual bidders consisting of South Korea’s GS Inima, Singapore’s Hyflux, Singapore’s Sembcorp, Japanese Marubeni, Japanese JGC, Japanese Sojitz Corporation & Spanish Tedagua (Spain). Another group consisting of Saudi Arabia’s Acwa Power, the French Veolia Water and the local Dhofar International Development & Investment And finally, a group consisting of the French Degremont and the Japanese Itochu. The submission of the Statements of Qualification came in a response to a request released by Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP) in early December 2015. The biggest plant, with a planned capacity of 100,000 cubic metre per day, will be located in Salalah. The plant will run on electricity supplied by Dhofar Power Company under a long-term power supply agreement. 10 | Automation
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Potable water produced by the IWP will be supplied to a new reservoir to be constructed and operated by the Directorate General of Water in Dhofar Governorate. The other two plants, planned for Sharqiyah region and Duqm, will have a similar production capacity of 55,000 to 60,000 cubic metre per day each. Global financial advisor Pricewaterhouse Coopers along with Ayesa, as technical advisor and the international Legal advisory firm Curtis, MalletPrevost, Colt & Mosle LLP have been commissioned to provide advisory services to Oman Power and Water Procurement Company during the procurement of the new IWP. The three water plants will help the government meet the increasing demand for potable water fueled by population growth, burgeoning infrastructure and commercial investment, and a policy decision to shift from groundwater resources to desalinated supplies. A contract has already been awarded to a group of Itochu, Engie, Degremont and WJ Towell for a new IWP plant at Barka with a capacity of 280,000 cubic metres per day, and commercial operation is set for May 2018, while the commercial operation of the Sohar IWP is slated for mid-2018. A group of Valoriza, Oman Brunei Investment Company, and Sogex Oman received a letter of award to develop the 250,000 plant in December 2015. The two IWPs are estimated to cost $1 billion.
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BAPCO - Bapco Modernization Program (BMP) Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) was the first to discover oil in the Arabian Peninsula in 1932 and began refining in 1936. The company has since helped shape the modern Kingdom of Bahrain. The company boasts a 260,000 barrel per day refinery, storage facilities for over 14 million barrels, a marine terminal for its petroleum products and a marketing terminal. To remain innovative and competitive in an everchanging market, BAPCO has planned its strategic Bapco Modernization Program (BMP), which has the primary objective of improving competitiveness through selling high-quality value-added products and increasing the efficiency of the refinery in compliance with the most stringent international safety and environmental standards. The BMP is anticipated to raise the output of the refinery to 360,000 bpd in the future. The program is Bapco’s most ambitious project to-date and is estimated to cost upwards of $5 billion. Key projects include a crude unit and associated facilities, hydrocracker and associated facilities, residue conversion units and a waste treatment facility. The hydrocracker and associated facilities will include a new hydrocracking unit with 60,000 bpd capacity, expansion of the mild hydrocracking to 70,000 bpd capacity and a new fluid catalytic cracker. A dehydrosulphurisation unit is also planned to produce diesel with a sulphurcontent of less than 10 parts per million. The multi-billion-dollar BMP is on track. Project management, engineering and construction firm Technip Italy has carried out the front-end engineering
and design (FEED) from July, 2014. The FEED project took about 16 months to be completed and cost about $55 million. In 30 September 2014, Bapco selects Chevron Lummus Global (CLG ) to provide the Engineering Design Packages (EDPs) Technology for LC Fining and Hydrocracker Units as part of the BMP. Australian firm WorleyParsns Services has won the PMC contract of $120 million to provide project management contractor, it was announced in December 13th, 2015. As the PMC contractor, WorleyParsons would assist BAPCO to manage, monitor and appraise the activities of the FEED contractor, engineering, procurement and construction contractors, and other contractors engaged to execute the work. Environment Arabia Consultancy Services (EACS) has been appointed by Technip to undertake an Environmental Health Impact Assessment for the BMP, in November 26th, 2015. The EHIA has focused on air quality, noise, marine water quality, soil and groundwater contamination and waste management. An Environmental Scoping Report is currently being prepared for submission to the Supreme Council for Environment. The EHIA should be concluded in the first quarter of 2016. Once the design packages are finalized by 2016, the engineering, procurement and construction stage would begin with commissioning of the new units expected by 2020.
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Bahrain LNG WLL - Liquefied Natural Gas Receiving and Regasification Terminal
In the period between 2011 and 2014, Bahrain demands of gas rose at an average rate of 2.5 per cent per annum. It is essential that Bahrain provides itself with an option to access competitive and economic gas supplies from the global market. The LNG terminal provides Bahrain with that option, giving it both an insurance policy in case of potential shortages of gas and the ability to supplement domestic gas supplies with LNG. Also, LNG terminal will form a vital part of the energy infrastructure of Bahrain. It will provide the country security of supply that it needs to meet its growth in demand for natural gas to fuel large industrial projects The project, to be developed on a BOOT (build, own, operate, transfer) basis, will be located in Hidd Industrial area of Bahrain and will help the Kingdom meet the increasing demand for gas supplies to satisfy its industrial and urban development. On December 3rd ,2015, National Oil & Gas Authority (Noga) and The Oil and Gas Holding Company (Nogaholding) sign agreements for the development of the project with a consortium of Canada's Teekay LNG Partners, SK's Samsung C&T, and the Gulf Investment Cooperation (GIC)following an international competitive tendering process. Teekay LNG will supply 12 | Automation
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the FSU vessel which will be modified specifically for this project. The winning consortium has selected GS Engineering and Construction as the EPC contractor of the project. The project will be owned and operated through joint venture, Bahrain LNG W.L.L., owned by Nogaholding (30%), Teekay LNG (30%), Samsung (20%) and GIC (20%) and is the first of its kind in the Middle East to be developed on a public-private partnership (PPP) scheme. The project is estimated to cost approximately $655 million, which will be funded through a combination of equity capital and project finance through a consortium of regional and international banks. The project will comprise of a Floating Storage Unit (FSU), an offshore LNG receiving jetty and breakwater, an adjacent regasification platform, subsea gas pipelines from the platform to shore, an onshore gas receiving facility, and an onshore nitrogen production facility. The project will have a capacity of 800 million standard cubic feet per day and will be owned and operated under a twenty-year agreement commencing on 15 July 2018.
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Qatar Petroleum - Al Shaheen Offshore Field Development Plan Originally appraised in the 1970s and deemed economically unviable due to an extremely challenging environment, the Al Shaheen field lay dormant. International oil companies came, saw the scale and scope of the task, and walked away from the monumental challenge the project illustrated, that is until the company, Maersk Oil, stood up against the challenge in 1992 in cooperation with Qatar Petroleum (QP). In 1992, a deal was struck as a landmark Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) for the offshore Al Shaheen Block 5, which sits just shy of 80 kilometers off the Qatar coast. Maersk Oil Qatar, in cooperation with QP has since developed the field, exceeding all expectations; with oil production from the field reaching over 300,000 barrels per day, and for a time generating Qatar’s largest hydrocarbon revenue stream. The field has been developed in three stages, positioning Maersk Oil Qatar at the heart of QP’s oil producing future. The extension project, aims to increase production beyond the 330,000 barrels per day recorded in 2008 and includes an investment package of US$6 billion. Then in May 2015, Qatar opens up bidding for Al-Shaheen Qatar’s state-run oil and gas company, Qatar Petroleum (QP) has announced invitation for bids for its
300,000 barrel-per-day offshore Al-Shaheen field. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, president and CEO of Qatar Petroleum said “The future operation and development of Al-Shaheen oil field is of critical strategic importance to the optimum exploitation of the natural resources of the State of Qatar. Therefore, the selection of our partner in this endeavor will be based on such partner’s ability to offer the best technological solutions for the field’s development combined with the best financial return to the State” Current scope of work comprises of drilling of 40 new production wells, 20 new water injection wells, conversion of 14 existing wells to water injection, construction and installation of new production platforms, interconnected with pipelines, facilities for gas compression, and gas export pipeline to Qatar Petroleum’s North Field Alpha platform, offshore Qatar. Although it is not clear how long the new EPSA will last for – it has been speculated it could be for another 25 years, it is thought that the world’s top oil majors are in the running to win the bid to run and further develop the field. QP has confirmed that Maersk Oil will be one them. The current field operator Maersk Oil Qatar will see its 25-year exploration and production sharing agreement (EPSA) with QP expire in mid-2017. MARCH 2016 | Automation
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2016’s Economic Outlook for the GCC In 2015, with oil prices falling, most of the GCC countries cut back on government spending and started spending less on construction projects.
As for Bahrain, the main focus is infrastructure with the government evaluating the rest of the projects, specifically oil and gas related projects.
Qatar has focused the majority of its resources in completing the construction of the stadiums required for 2022 FIFA and other associated infrastructure that complements these FIFA stadiums. Other initiatives needed to diversify their economy as part of the Qatar National Vision 2030 is now secondary until the stadiums are completed.
KSA has always been less unaffected by the oil price devaluation compared to its GCC neighbors, however, they are now starting to cut back on state spending and are revising the budget plans - One of the most shocking turns in the recent month is that KSA opens Saudi Aramco to the public.
Kuwait tendered more projects in 2015, than it ever did before; including power plants, infrastructure as well as oil and gas projects. Even with the fall of the oil prices, Kuwait is still pushing through with most of their projects, however, are starting to remove the subsidizing of fish, vegetables and are discussing removal of the petrol and electricity subsidies. If the oil price continues to drop, the Kuwaiti Government will need to implement stricter methods of cost cutting. Meanwhile, most of the projects in Oman are either on hold or cancelled with no major changes during 2015. There are only two major projects that are moving forward – Liwa Plastics and Duqm Refinery. Omani authorities are willing to reduce the volume of oil production in order to stabilize the situation in the oil market.
The economy of the United Arab Emirates remains stable even in a significant reduction of oil cost. According to UAE’s Ministry of Economy, so far, the price of oil had little effect on the economy and the unfavorable dynamics of its value won’t affect the implementation of major infrastructure projects. UAE expects its economy to grow 3% in 2016 despite drastic oil price changes and is able to remain stable because of its economic diversification. The Arab Monetary Fund predicts the growth in the GCC region by 3.5 % in 2016 with Bahrain’s economic growth being most likely slower, Kuwait and KSA are predicted to be perform lesser, while Qatar will take the leading position in 2016.
GCC and its Refineries in 2016 The GCC countries are developing their refineries to attract revenues apart from oil and gas, to meet local demand for petrol and develop the industry. Due to sharp decline in oil prices, Oman is expanding its downstream and energy sectors to create new revenue. Oman has started collecting bids for the construction of 14 | Automation
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the refinery and petrochemical complex in Duqm city worth $ 6 billion which is owned by Oman Oil Company and International Petroleum Investment Company. Oman plans to purchase gas in Iran and is negotiating on the construction of a $ 1 billion gas pipeline from Iran.
ANALYTIC In the framework of Bapco Modernization Program (BMP), Bahrain plans to add 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) of new refinery capacity to its Bapco plant beyond 2016. The current capacity of the refinery is 260,000 bpd. The expansion plan includes boosting the capacity of a pipeline that brings 220,000 bpd of crude oil from KSA to Bapco refinery. Meanwhile, Kuwait has just tendered a $16 billion refinery project – Al Zour New Refinery. Al Zour refinery is meant to replace an older refinery - Suaiba refinery, which Kuwait plans to fully shut down by Q2 2017. Few heavy oil-refining units have already shut down. Al Zour New Refinery will produce lower Sulphur fuel for power plants as well as more diversified oil outputs for the international markets. There are also plans to integrate a large petrochemical facility to the complex. As a part of Qatar Nation Vision 2030 with the objective to include the protection of the environment and promote sustainable development, Qatargas is
implementing a new project – Laffan Refinery 2 (LR 2). The project aims to double the refining capacity of the existing LR 1 to a total of 300,000 bpd. Saudi Arabia being the largest exporter of refined products in the Middle East, continues the investment in its refining sector. Saudi Arabia plans to commission a new refinery in Jazan by Q3 2018 with the expected capacity of 400,000 barrels per day. In UAE, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has almost doubled the production of its Ruwais refinery up to 400,000 barrels per day (bpd). International Petroleum Investment Company considers possibility of opening a refinery in Fujairah with the estimated capacity of 200,000 bpd. According to JBC Energy GmbH, KSA, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman will increase its combined refining capacity by 6 million barrels a day by 2020.
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Qatar Petroleum (QP) - Bul Hanine Redevelopment (Offshore) The Bul Hanine Redevolpment has been in production since 1972 under Qatar Petroleum. The field lies about 120 km east off the Qatari coastline and plans of the field being redeveloped involve an investment of QAR40bn ($11bn) making it one of the biggest projects to be managed and executed by Qatar Petroleum. The enormousness of the investment reflects the extent of project scope that includes new offshore central production facilities and a new onshore gas liquids processing facility at Mesaieed. Oil fields managed by Qatar Petroleum, which are developed using older technology have entered a redevelopment phase. These fields, including the Bul Hanine oil field, are currently undergoing seismic surveys, and reservoir and field-wide studies to estimate their reserves and long-term production prospects. Bul Hanine oil field produces high-quality crudes, associated gas and condensate, and is operated by Qatar Petroleum through offshore production station PS-3. Oil with condensate is transported to Halul Island for storage and exportation. Gas produced is used as fuel gas at the production station and Halul, and also as feed for the Mesaieed natural gas liquids (NGL) facilities. The Bul Hanine Redevelopment is said to constitute the next step in the utilization of Qatar’s hydrocarbon wealth and is therefore a key element in the implementation of 16 | Automation
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the Qatar National Vision when launched In May 2014, the field operator, Qatar Petroleum, announced its plans to redevelop the field and increase the production by a significant margin, increasing the production to 90,000 Barrels Per Day (Bpd) by 2020 to counter its projected declining production. Oil recovery techniques, full field redevelopment plans, innovative technology, computer modelling and processing are some of the techniques Qatar Petroleum are deliberating in order to increase the field life. Under the redevelopment, Qatar Petroleum (QP) plans to drill 150 wells. The redevelopment is part of a comprehensive plan implemented to raise the efficiency of producing fields as well as implementation of various well drilling programs to increase crude oil reserves. To quote Qatar’s Minister of Energy and Industry and also chairman of Qatar Petroleum (QP) Dr. Mohammed bin Saleh Al-Sada “This important project is part of a development and production strategy based on maximum recovery of reserves through the longest possible plateau of sustainable production levels. It will help boost Qatar’s oil production capacity and reinforce its position as a reliable energy provider.” The project is currently at EPC ITB with the completion date slated at Q1 2028.
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Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) Al Zour New Refinery - Overview The Al Zour New Refinery is the key to Kuwait’s hopes of meeting the countries growing power demand. The 615,000 barrel per day (b/d) facility will supply 225,000 b/d of low-sulphur fuel (less than 1% compared to its current 4% Sulphur fuel) to power plants for power generation. The scheme will be one of the largest single phase refineries ever built. The project has been tendered twice in the past, only to be awarded and cancelled before construction could begin. The project was again tendered and awarded in August, 2015 and thanks to the Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (KAPP) being established earlier that year, contractors are more optimistic that the project will move forward to the construction phase. The Al Zour New Refinery project consists of 5 packages which are labeled as follows: Package 1 (Main Process Plant), Package 2 (Support Process Plant), Package 3 (Utilities & Offsite), Package 4 (Tankage) and finally Package 5 (Marine Facilities). Package 1, the Main Process Plant, will consist of three 210,000 b/d crude distillation units, three 110,000b/d atmospheric residue desulfurization units,Three 62,000b/d diesel hydrotreating units, two 18,200 b/d naphtha hydrotreating units, two 53,000 b/d kerosene hydrotreating units, an 8,500-b/d saturated gas unit and a heavy oil cooling unit.
Package 2, Support Process Plant, will compromise of a 55 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) hydrogen recovery unit, a hydrogen compression unit, four 145 mmscf dhydrogen production units, three 450 cubic meter per hour (m3/hr) sour water stripper unit, three 1300 m3/hr amine regeneration unit, three sulfur recovery units, three 1000 metric tons per day (MT/Day) tail gas treating unit, a flare unit, a sulfur pelletizing unit, an acid gas flare unit and a sulfur storage unit. Package 3, Utilities & Offsite, will encompass a steam generation unit, an air systems unit, a water systems unit, accidentally oil contaminated sewer system, continuously oil contaminated sewer system, zero liquid discharge system and a clean storm water system. Package 4, Tankage, will have 28 fixed-roof tanks, 2 dry slop tanks with a capacity of 200,000 barrels each, 2 wet slop tanks with a capacity of 67,000 barrels each, a plant fuel oil tank with a capacity of 100,000 barrels, a continuous flushing oil tank with a capacity of 10,000 barrels, 4 crude pipelines, 2 imported fuel gas lines, 2 low sulphur fuel oil lines. Package 5, Marine Facilities, will have a Solids Pier, a Sulfur Pelletizing unit, Subsea Outfall Lines, a sea island, and a Small Boat Harbor. The $15 billion dollar refinery is scheduled to be commissioned by the end of 2019.
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COMPANY NEWS
GPCA Plastics Excellence Awards 2016 Finalists Show Talent, Innovation and Cooperation Dubai, United Arab Emirates; January , 2016: The GCC’s plastics industry’s finest inventions and ideas were celebrated at the GPCA Plastics Excellence Awards in Dubai yesterday evening. The accolade, an initiative of the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA), recognized individuals and organizations that have made exceptional contributions to the plastics and plastics conversion industry over the last twelve months.
2016 award recipients include: Joint Development/Improvement of a new Product or Application – Resin Producer & Plastic Converter Joint winners are: SABIC in partnership with Innovation Construction Co. & AlJawdah and Borouge in partnership with Concept Piping Systems
Dr. Abdulwahab Al-Sadoun, Secretary General, GPCA, explained, “Initiatives such as the Plastics Excellence Awards take crucial values like innovation and teamwork to the next level through the recognition of the industry’s most notable developments. I am pleased to note that this year’s winners include people and organizations from diverse backgrounds. Whether it is from the GCC’s biggest companies, to up- and- coming SMEs to research institutions, these award recipients possess the ideas and ingenuity to be industry leaders of the future.”
Joint Development/Improvement Project - Machinery Manufacturers & Plastic Converter Winner: EREMA Engineering Recycling in partnership with Technovaa
Since the inauguration of the Plastics Excellence Awards in 2011, the honorary event has attracted 191 entries, recognizing 25 exceptional ideas and products to date. This year’s awards attracted a record 51 submissions across six categories, including a special student award, which supports upcoming talent with the unique opportunities that turn a concept into reality.
Best Researcher in Plastics Winner: Dr. Yahya Banat, SABIC T&I
Innovation Excellence in Plastic Products and Processes Winner: Union Pipes Industry Best Sustainability Initiatives in Plastics Conversion Winner: Twyla Recycling Co.
Fikra-Rising Stars of the Plastics Industry-Students Award Winner: HaneenAbdelrazeq, Qatar University
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Expand Plastics Industry Towards Differentiated Higher Value Products, Say Experts at 7th GPCA PlastiCon Conference Dubai, United Arab Emirates; January 11, 2016: While the GCC has witnessed impressive plastics industry growth resulting in high revenues, new export markets and new job opportunities throughout the last decade, plastics producers in the Arabian Gulf region will have to diversify their product portfolio to realize untapped potential of differentiated and specialized higher value plastic products in the future, advised speakers at the 7th annual GPCA PlastiCon conference in Dubai. “Throughout history, humans developed because stone, iron and bronze helped them build survival kits resulting in eras named after these materials,” said Mutlaq Al-Morished, Chief Executive Officer, TASNEE. “If we look at history this way, then we are indisputably in the Plastic Age. By 2020, world plastics consumption will reach 380 million tons a year, averaging 42 kilograms per person.” According to statistics from the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA), plastics capacity in the Arabian Gulf region has nearly tripled in the last decade: in 2006, production capacity stood at 9.2 million tons, growing to a 26.6 million ton industry in 2015. This development is a 11.7% cumulative annual growth rate during the 2006- 2015 period. “The GCC plastics industry is a “feed in” industry for many other sectors, providing the building blocks for automotives, food and beverage packaging among others, sectors that make products for end- users,” continued Al-Morished. “Today, the GCC plastics industry is a commodities business characterized by mass production. The industry is moving from commodities to the production of durable goods like cars, TVs and refrigerators. While this is valuable, the industry would gain more if we would move from producing goods that are fast in design and with a short time to market, like apparel and watches. These goods are less sensitive to economic cycles and market dynamics and would pave the way for Arabian Gulf producers moving into the production of capital goods, like railways and aircrafts,” he advised. 20 | Automation
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An export oriented industry; plastics producers in the Arabian Gulf have earmarked a significant amount of their capacity for international markets, earning valuable income in the process. According to the GPCA’s GCC Plastics Industry Indicators 2015 report, the regional plastics industry exported 20.6 million tons of product in 2015, earning US$31 billion in revenues. Of this capacity, Saudi Arabia accounts for three- quarters of the region’s export share, exporting 13 million tons of product. For the UAE meanwhile, 2015 was particularly notable as rising plastic exports in the year saw the Emirates double its exporting share to 14% of regional capacity. “Regional plastics producers have seen much success in the last decade, building their business model around low production cost, competitively priced products and close relationships with export partners,” said Dr. Abdulwahab Al-Sadoun, Secretary General, GPCA. “This acumen and drive has led to a burgeoning plastics commodities trade exchange.” With forecasts for the plastics industry signaling an annual growth rate of 3.2% from now till 2020, plastic producers will need to invest in diversifying and expanding their portfolio. “Plastics producers in the Arabian Gulf have rounded up a successful decade of growth,” explained Dr. Al-Sadoun. “With regional companies facing diminishing returns and the availability of cheap raw materials to our competitors, it is no secret that we are in the midst of a challenging business environment. For regional plastics companies, diversifying the products portfoliothat feeds into industry like aerospace, automotives and even fashion- will result in hedging investments into products that are not affected by ongoing market instability.” Now in its 7th edition, Plasticon was hosted by the GPCA. The forum attracted speakers from renowned plastic companies including QAPCO, Sadara, SABIC, Tasnee and DuPont.
INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM CYBER SECURITY
Inherent Oil & Gas System Cyber Safeguards
Oil and gas facilities need to be protected against the physical consequences of a cyber-attack. While a lot of effort has been placed on securing the computer systems themselves, the design of the facility is often overlooked in the cybersecurity design. The design should be considered the the first line of defense in against cyber-attack. It is possible to build plants that are inherently safe against cyber-attack by designing system safeguards that are immune to cyber attack. The good news is that there is a systematic method to verify that significant hazardous situations can be avoided even in a cyber attack. We have become very comfortable using technology. Unfortunately, in many cases we are not thinking through the potential problems the technology might cause. Recently, a news story surfaced where ethical hackers were able to take remote control of a
vehicle over the Internet through the entertainment system. This should not have happened and wouldn’t if the entertainment system and the vehicle controls systems were never cross connected. Relying on a programmer to get the firmware right in every scenario is just not practical and will continue to put people at risk. As an ex-submarine nuclear power plant operator, I have trained constantly to recognize, prevent, and mitigate risks. Consequently, these stories really frustrate me. Consider that automobiles have power windows and I love mine. However, the one time you might need the window to work quickly, is also the moment that it likely will not work at all. For instance, if you accidentally end up in water, the power system will fail and the window will not move when you push the button. In this case, a simple solution might be MARCH 2016 | Automation
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INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM CYBER SECURITY a mechanical safety device to bust the window and cut the restraining system belt. And yet, vehicles on the road today, do not have this simple safety device unless the owner added it. This seems like common sense to me. The use of microprocessors and network communications found in programmable logic controllers and supervisory control systems have significantly improved manufacturing and production. We have come to rely on the automation technology to solve almost every problem we encounter. We have networked the controllers and the computers to provide greater benefits. As we continue down this path, we need to be cautious that we are not creating a bigger problem like the vehicle manufacture did when they connected the entertainment system to the Internet and exposed a vulnerability in their design. Recently, there has been some discussion regarding the convergence of control and safety systems. Some of the discussion is about using the same networks for communication, some want to see both systems in the same PLC backplane potentially, and even possibly combined into the same CPU as separate processes. I know there may be some value in doing this, but isn’t this putting our processes at risk even more than the vehicle example? For years, industry pundits have been warning about the massive physical damage and loss of life that can occur as the result of a cyber-attack. Government agencies prepare case studies demonstrating that the cyber-attacks can cause physical damage to process plants. A famous case study, was the “Aurora” test that was staged by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The results of this staged event were widely reported on international news outlets. In addition to vulnerability warnings from government and academia, there is also some evidence of a handful of successful cyber-attacks causing physical damage. A widely known attack was the STUXNET attack on uranium centrifuges. Ralph Langner writes extensively about the attack and his paper titled “To Kill a Centrifuge ” is the best publically available summary of the research and situation to my knowledge. Make no mistake here, this was a brilliant attack on a state of the art control system from a major industrial control vendor. Instead of an all out attack that would have been discovered quicker, the attack caused slight overpressure and over speed on the uranium centrifuges causing production problems and excessive wear. What is not as widely 22 | Automation
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known or publicized is that the STUXNET attack should have failed too, and only succeeded because the design of the equipment that was being attacked was flawed. The other known attacks could also have been easily avoided with low-cost inherently safe protection techniques, but these facilities were also poorly designed. In the US, and many other nations around the world, government, academia and associated nongovernmental organizations that operate in the cybersecurity realm have expended a great deal of effort in widely communicating the message that critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber-attack and attacks are occurring at a high and increasing frequency. In the US this messaging has culminated with an entire cybersecurity awareness month. Much to the surprise of public sector and private sector groups who had hoped to profit from regulations, services, and products designed to increase resilience of IT systems against cyber-attack, the industry’s response to the borderline hysteria has been a resounding – yawn. Considering that there are attempts at hacking into industrial control systems, the fact that physical damage to these plants is virtually non-existent is surprising to those who don’t understand how process plants are designed. The cyber-attacks lack of success isn’t because the IT department has successfully defended the perimeter. It is because process engineers have designed their plants to be safeguarded against failures that can cause significant safety consequences. These safeguards are common, inexpensive, and usually inherently safe against cyber-attack because most of them were invented long before the advent of the computer. Process Hazards Analysis In the process industries, facilities are systematically assessed to determine what hazardous scenarios might occur that could result in a significant consequence, and for each of these scenarios, the safeguards that are available to prevent the accident are assessed to determine if they are adequate. This exercise is called a “Process Hazards Analysis”, and in the United States is required to be performed (and revalidated every five (5) years) for all facilities that pose a significant hazard by the labor regulator – the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Most jurisdictions around the world have very similar requirements managed or monitored by a similar entity.
INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM CYBER SECURITY Process Hazards Analyses are performed using a variety of techniques that have been developed over years. The most common and comprehensive technique is the Hazards and Operability Study, or HAZOP. In a HAZOP study, a facility is broken down into “Nodes” of similar operating conditions and walked through a set of deviations, such as High Pressure, Low Temperature, Reverse Flow, etc. For each of these guidewords, a multidisciplinary team
(e.g., operations, safety, and engineering) determines if there is a cause of that deviation beyond safe operating limits. If so, the team determines the consequence if the deviation were to occur, and then lists all of the safeguards that are available to prevent that deviation from occurring – or at least escalating to the point where damage can occur. An example HAZOP worksheet is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 – Sample HAZOP Worksheet when a HAZOP is performed, a team of engineers look at virtually every failure that can possibly occur, and ensure that there are appropriate safeguards to protect against it. If the degree of safeguarding is determined by the team to be inadequate, the team will make recommendations to add new protection layers or make modifications to improve existing safeguards. Using this process, virtually any process deviation that can be conceived is analyzed. While this process systematically and thoroughly assesses potential hazard scenarios, it currently does not make absolutely certain that your plant is inherently safe against cyber-attack. While the hazard scenarios are assessed to determine if safeguards are appropriate, there is typically no additional consideration that the safeguards could all have been disabled by a malicious attack. We should consider adding an additional step to verify the cyber security vulnerability for every cause and safeguard that was encountered by the HAZOP team. For instance, can the scenario described in
the CAUSE, be deliberately generated if initiating the CAUSE while simultaneously disabling all of the SAFEGUARDS through malicious control of the ICS equipment. Based on analysis of the author and the paucity of examples of cyber-attacks that have actually caused physical damage, this cyber-exposed position is rarely present in well-designed process facilities, and can virtually always be designed out. If there are no situations where CAUSE initiation and SAFEGUARD disabling can all occur as the result of an ICS attack, then the process is Inherently Safe against cyber-attack. Safeguards That Are Inherently Safe Against Cyber Attack A number of safeguards are commonly employed in the process industries that are inherently safe against cyber-attack. One of these safeguards can be employed as a later of protection to protect a process plant against virtually any conceivable cyber-attack. The real work of protecting process industry MARCH 2016 | Automation
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INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM CYBER SECURITY plants against cyber-attack vectors that can cause large amounts of physical damage is to make the process for selecting and installing these safeguards thorough and systematic. Common process industry safeguards that are inherently safe against cyber-attack are as follows: • • • • • •
Pressure Relief Valves Mechanical Over Speed Trips Non-Return Check Valves Motor Overload Relays Motor Current Monitor Relays Generalized Control Loop Current Monitor Relays
Pressure Relief Valves Pressure relief valves protect pressure containing pipes and vessels from bursting or otherwise leaking as the result of pressure in the equipment becoming higher than the equipment can withstand. The relief valve is mounted so that the inlet nozzle is directly connected to the protected process. As the pressure in the process increases beyond desirable limits (as set with the set pressure adjusting screw), the force of pressure in the vessel overcomes the pressure of the spring, safely venting the vessel’s contents to a containment or disposal system and preventing damage to the process equipment. A diagram of a typical relief valve is shown in Figure 2.
Mechanical Over Speed Mechanical over speed trip are devices that prevent a rotating machine from damaging itself as the result of excessive rotational speed. As the shaft of a rotating device increases in speed, the centrifugal force at the outer edge of the shaft increases. In a mechanical over speed switch, the centrifugal force on a weighted trip element overcomes the force of the spring with which the element is attached to the shaft. Once the element extends beyond the safe limit of rotational speed, it physically strikes a switch arm which is mechanically linked to the mechanism that is supplying the rotational force (e.g, a steam supply valve or motor relay). A simplified schematic of a mechanical over speed trip is shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3 – Schematic Diagram of a Mechanical Over Speed Switch The use of mechanical over speed trips on highspeed rotating equipment is very common, especially on older equipment. Only recently have designers opted to rely 100% of embedded microprocessor based controllers for over speed protection, leaving themselves vulnerable to cyber-attack. Non-Return Check Valve Figure 2 – Schematic Diagram of a Spring Loaded Pressure Relief Valve Relief valves are ubiquitous in the process industries. In fact, in the United States use of relief valves is required by law at the state level for virtually all pressure vessels. 24 | Automation
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Non-return check valves are a type of valve that will only allow flow in the designed direction, and mechanically prevents flow from returning in the wrong direction. Figure 4 provides a diagram of the operation of a check valve. When liquid is flowing in the designed direction, the pressure of the fluid pushes on the valve open. When the differential pressure across the valve reverses, the valve will close
INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM CYBER SECURITY (sometimes assisted by a spring or counter weight), preventing flow from occurring in the reverse direction. Check valves are very commonly used in the process industries in virtually any application where reverse flow is possible, but undesirable. Use of check valves can prevent many hazards associated with reverse flow, and will also help to limit inventory of material that is spilled if a loss of containment event were to occur.
Figure 5 – Schematic Diagram of a Motor Overload Relay
Figure 4 – Schematic Diagram of a Non-Return Check Valve Motor Overload Relays Motor overload relays and motor current monitor relays detect that motors are operating in an abnormal mode, and can be configured to automatically stop a motor upon detection of the abnormality. The relays are electromechanical, but not programmable, and thus not hackable. By managing/monitoring the current drawn by the motors, abnormalities in how the pump is operating can be identified. Pump and compressor motors can draw abnormally high amounts of current for a variety of reasons, including unexpectedly high or low “head” or discharge pressure. This phenomenon would be seen if either a pump was “dead-headed” – or pumping against a closed valve, or the pump lost its load entirely (e.g., loss of suction). In these cases, the current through the motor would rapidly increase. As the current increases the heat generated in the motor would also increase. The effects of the abnormal current draw through the motor can be detected by motor protection devices that are installed as standard equipment on virtually all industrial motors. Using these devices as safeguards is a simple matter of configuring them to activate at appropriately high or low currents. Figure 5 shows a diagram of a motor overload relay system. As the current through the motor increases beyond the normal operation, the current through the
solenoid coil in the current relay will cause enough magnetic force to move the internal switch, opening the contacts of the circuit and de-energizing the motor. Similar functionality is also performed using switches that utilize the increased temperature of excess current (i.e., thermal overload relays). The same concept can be applied to a generalized current monitor relay that can be applied to virtually any transmitted signal in any control system. In the process industries, electronic measurements are relayed as a 4-20 mA electronic signal, where 4 mA represents 0% of the measured range and 20 mA represents 100% of the measured range. The control system reads this analog signal and converts it into a digital signal for use to subsequent control schemes. It is possible to use inexpensive external devices to directly read the current from these measurement devices and open or close a discrete control signal. This control signal can then be used, for instance, to de-energize a solenoid valve – causing a process valve to close, or interrupting the control circuit for a motor starter – causing a pump or compressor to stop. All of this activity is external to the control system, and will function regardless of whether the control system itself has been compromised. This generalized current monitor technology can back up literally any safety instrumented function in a way that is inherently safe against cyber-attack. Identifying Where Inherent Safety Against Cyber-Attack is Required Identifying the locations where safeguards that are inherently safe against cyber-attack should be deployed can be done systematically and exhaustively through a process called HAZOP by adding a cybercheck. In the modified HAZOP, each scenario is MARCH 2016 | Automation
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INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM CYBER SECURITY reviewed to determine if a pathway that is subject to exploitation via cyber-attack (i.e., “hackable”) exists. If so, the cyber-attack inherently-safe safeguard should be recommended if the consequence is significant and/or hazardous. With respect to initiating events, or causes, in order to be cyber-exposed or hackable the physical cause discussed in the HAZOP would have to be made possible through a virtual command from the industrial control system. So, whereas a “flow control valve going closed” is hackable, the cause of “operator inadvertently opens the bypass valve” is not – assuming that the bypass valve is hand-cranked, and not actuated from the control system. As such, the first step in the modified HAZOP is going through each deviation scenario’s CAUSE to determine if it is hackable. The next step is to review all of the SAFEGUARDS to determine if they are hackable. Any operator or computer controlled safety instrumented function is generally hackable, but many safeguards are not, as discussed in the section above. The modified HAZOP then proceeds by reviewing the list of SAFEGUARDS for each scenario and identifying any non-hackable safeguards. If the deviation in the HAZOP includes at least one non-hackable safeguard, then the deviation cannot be generated through a cyber-attack and is thus considered not hackable. If when going through the modified HAZOP, you get through the CAUSE and SAFEGUARDS and find that everything is hackable you then need to look at the consequences to determine if that deviation results in a significant consequence. If not, that attack vector is essentially a nuisance that is best left to traditional cyber-security. If the consequence is significant, then it is incumbent upon the analyst to make a recommendation to add a non-hackable safeguard. This is not required as frequently as one would think, and is not difficult to accomplish. The safeguard designer will always have the option to “mimic” one of the programmable electronic system safety instrumented functions with an analog pathway (i.e., generalized control loop current monitor relay). For instance, in the case of a high reactor temperature opening a depressuring valve as a safety instrumented function, if the control function is located in a safety PLC; then, in theory, it can be hacked. But, if an analog signal splitter on the 4-20 mA signal from the temperature transmitter, including a currently monitor relay, is utilized to interrupt power to the solenoid valve to the pneumatic circuit of the depressuring valve –an analog secondary pathway for that safety instrumented function that is hackproof is thus created. 26 | Automation
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Figure 6 – Analog “Mimic” of a Digital SIF By going through the modified HAZOP, process plant operators and engineers can ensure that any process is inherently safe against cyber-attack. This type of safety does not rely, in any way, on the cyberdefenses that are employed at the facility, only the physical design of the process itself. In a facility that is designed to this standard, a malicious actor could be seated at an operator station with full access to all operator terminals and programming terminals, and provided ample training on how the plant and control systems work, and still will not be able to cause any damage. Conclusions Process industry plants contain hazards whose consequences can be very severe if a loss of containment were to occur. Process industry design engineers have immense experience in protecting these facilities. Many of the safeguards that have been designed to protect process plants were developed years before computers even existed, and thus are inherently safe against cyber-attack if employed correctly. When properly employed, these safeguards can make a process inherently safe against cyber-attack, so long as these safeguards are always employed at the required locations. Application of these safeguards in the required locations can be performed in a thorough and systematic fashion through a modified HAZOP. This process involves going through the process hazards analysis reports that have already been completed for a process plant and reviewing each scenario. The review involves considering the cause and safeguards to determine if they can be hacked. If so, and if the consequence is significant, then a safeguard that is inherently safe against cyber-attack should be employed.
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United Converting Develops Scalable Tissue Industry Converting Solution Thanks to The Integrated Architecture From Rockwell Automation New machine delivers performance improvements and data capabilities that move it and the company into the Connected Enterprise
Challenge
United Converting was commissioned to build a tissue converting machine that not only addressed its own design philosophy, but also catered for the needs of its US customer and the US market
Solutions
A Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture solution was installed, which included: • Allen-Bradley ControlLogix programmable automation controller (PAC) • Allen-Bradley GuardLogix controller for the safety infrastructure • Allen-Bradley Kinetix 6500 servo drives • Allen-Bradley PowerFlex variablespeed drives • Allen-Bradley POINT I/O • Allen-Bradley PanelView Plus 6 HMI • EtherNet/IP infrastructure • Significant engineering support from Rockwell Automation in Italy
Results
• Automation solution that addresses the company’s simplification and ease of use philosophy • US market ready solution • Connected Enterprise capability • Enhanced changeover process – faster by a factor of four • Greater export potential – “Rockwell Automation opens doors”
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Background Founded in 2004 with the aim of developing and manufacturing equipment for the tissue converting industry, United Converting Srl now satisfies the needs of a globalised market with respect to the growing demand for machinery and services capable of meeting modern production requirements. The company supplies a complete service, from the design and development of new machinery, to the upgrade and optimisation of existing lines, through paper manufacture and processing, ultimately increasing the final value of the products. Despite still being a young company, it has successfully built and installed a number of converting lines deploying the latest technologies. The company has also developed new converting systems that are patented worldwide. Thanks to the extensive experience of its technicians, it is able to supply an extremely customised engineering service, using the latest technologies available on the market and is able to respond to unique requests for product customisation to enable tissue converters to achieve exact and innovative product specifications.
INTEGRATED OPERATIONS optimisation, but also for sharing with a wider connected enterprise. For this customer and for future export potential, it also needed an automation supplier well placed in the US market and with in-depth knowledge of both the machine, its operating principles and the unique demands of the tissue industry.
Solution The line, based on the United Converting Nexus Cline, can be used for kitchen roll or toilet paper and comprises multiple individual modules, which are then interconnected to act as one production solution. In a recent project, a leading US customer needed a new converting line for it production facility. For this application United Converting chose Rockwell Automation as the primary automation supplier in order to develop a machine that would leverage the Rockwell Automation Integrated Architecture® in addition to exploiting the market-leading position that Rockwell Automation enjoys in the United States.
Challenge United Converting required a solution that not only addressed its own design requirements – ease-ofuse and simplicity – but would also adapt to different machine formats and sizes. It also needed a solution that would provide pertinent and timely manufacturing data, not only for machine and process parameter
At the heart of the machine is an Integrated Architecture solution from Rockwell Automation running over an EtherNet/IP™ network. The primary automation control components comprise an Allen-Bradley® ControlLogix® programmable automation controller (PAC), which works in tandem with an Allen-Bradley GuardLogix® controller for the safety infrastructure. The main motion and rotational axes are controlled by both servo and AC motor solutions driven by Allen-Bradley Kinetix® 6500 servo drives and Allen-Bradley PowerFlex® variablespeed drives. Completing the control solution is a variety of Allen-Bradley POINT I/O™ modules and an Allen-Bradley PanelView™ Plus 6 HMI, which delivers the means for operator interaction. The first module has three unwinders, which take large paper reels, unwind them and layer them before feeding
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INTEGRATED OPERATIONS them into a lamination unit. The three-ply paper structur is then embossed and glued together before a rewinder takes paper off the line and onto a final out roll. This roll is then transferred to a sealing unit where a line of glue is applied to seal the last part of the roll. The three metre long roll then reaches an accumulator, after which a saw is used to cut it into small rolls, which are then sent to a packing line. Next to the primary converting line there is also a machine that makes the cardboard cores for the centre of the rolls. By using EtherNet/IP as the primary communication protocol, United Converting has given itself the opportunity to more easily offer its customers remote For monitoring and maintenance, while also having the option to connect the machine into its customers Connected Enterprise. The Connected Enterprise, an approach manufacturers are adopting to leverage the use of connected machines, supply chains and customers, allows them to establish manufacturing processes that are data/information rich, supported, secure and future ready for market demands.
Results
According to Gianluca Giometti, Vice President at United Converting: “We always look to try and simplify our systems in terms of hardware and software and by using EtherNet/IP and Rockwell Automation hardware and software we were able to achieve this regarding the initial programming and the subsequent user interactions. We also benefit from the solution’s scalability, so we can adapt it for other machines with far less engineering effort. Data exchange was also simplified, as was the ability to share the software development between multiple users simultaneously. EtherNet/IP also delivers a single-network solution for data, motion, safety and I/O and plays a prime role in our big focus on the Connected Enterprise, giving our customers the ability to expand the communication possibilities both within their own factory and for any remote support we can provide from either Italy or from our recently establish US office.
Ultimately, a Connected Enterprise approach for manufacturers and their suppliers will create a more competitive, innovative enterprise that can deliver insights to improve productivity, sustainability and economic performance through faster time to market, lower total cost of ownership, improved asset utilisation and enterprise risk management. Other benefits of access to real-time, contextualised information include minimised downtime, improved technology and process optimisation, greater workforce efficiency and smarter expenditure. Because EtherNet/IP is based on standard, unmodified Ethernet, it means that there is “The machine is now at the customer site and is very little that needs to be done for these connections performing as expected,” he concludes. “From my point to be established; and full security solutions are also of view, the customer service we achieved from Rockwell available for user control and to prevent unwarranted Automation in Italy was extremely good especially with regards to the engineering team, who, in addition to access. providing better service than we get from other suppliers, also had a lot of knowledge about our processes. Finally, thanks to a special I/O card that we developed for the ControlLogix PAC, we were able to significantly enhance one of our patented roll-changeover steps, speeding it up by a factor of four due to the greater precision on offer!”
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Information-Driven Asset Performance in the Process Industries ACHEMA, held every three years in Germany, is the world’s largest and most important event for the process industries. Topics covered include process engineering, laboratory technology, plant engineering and construction, instrumentation, control, and automation, and I -- in recent years -- the cross-topical themes of biotechnology and environmental protection.
Model for ALM/ALIM Processes Because of their interconnection, these processes require a continuous ex-change of information. This is achieved through asset lifecycle infor-mation
At ACHEMA 2015, industry associations ZVEI and NAMUR, in collaboration with ARC Advisory Group, organized a series of presentations and panel discussions, including one on information-driven asset performance in the O&M life cycle phase.
In the hall dedicated to instrumentation, control, and automation solutions, the industry associations ZVEI and NAMUR, in collaboration with ARC Advisory Group, organized a series of presentations and panel discussions that were open to the general public. Here, we review the takeaways from the session on information-driven asset performance in the critical operate and maintain phase of the asset lifecycle.
Asset Lifecycle Management’s Principles and Goals Physical assets used in the process industries can range in scope and size from a single instrument or controller to a full plant or multi-plant complex. These assets represent a significant investment and it is generally accepted that their respective lifecycles must be managed to achieve optimal return. As discussed in detail in previous ARC reports, overall asset lifecycle management (ALM) involves a set of interconnected, iterative processes: • In the design and build phase of a project, programs are managed for project performance (PPM). • During the much longer operate and maintain (O&M) phase, the process focuses on asset performance management (APM). • Asset and project portfolio management (APPM) aligns the overall portfolio of investments in assets with the company’s strategic objec-tives. 32 | Automation
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management (ALIM). ALIM incorporates the collection, management and distribution of information on design and construction, operation and maintenance of the asset portfolio and makes the data available to PPM, APM, and APPM. The overall purpose of these processes is to maximize the net total value of ownership over the asset’s lifecycle. Yet the multi-parameter optimization for this process typically involves tradeoffs because of parameter interdependency. For example, if a plant is built faster and is in operation earlier, the project costs may be higher, but this is more than compensated by the additional value of products sold. And while maintenance costs can be reduced, this is also likely result in reduced productions and possibly shorten the lifetime of the asset. Organizations have opportunities to exploit this potential for global optimization. To reach the optimum, timely, in-context, high-quality information is required and must be transparent from the controller or sensor up to the highest level of optimization.
ASSET MANAGEMENT Asset Performance Management Issues and Solutions
maintenance strategies.
Experts participating in the discussions at ACHEMA were Peter Spelberg-Jahn, product manager for Siemens COMOS, Milo Scheeren, Chief Product Officer of BlueCielo ECM Solutions; Mike Brooks, CEO of Mtell; and Yosuke Ishii, Project Manager Mobile Solutions at Yokogawa.
A participant asked about the consequences of wrong data. Spelberg-Jahn explained that an object-oriented centralized data hub will show inconsistencies and forces the user to decide which data is wrong and which is right. Peter indicated that good asset information management throughout the lifecycle can save up to 50 percent of engineering and maintenance time.
ALIM Data Quality
Predicting Asset Performance Degradation
Milo Scheeren of BlueCielo drew the audience’s attention to the ALIM data quality risk. Among other issues, low data quality can result in non-compliance with regulations, or crate a safety risk, as staff may make wrong decisions based on incomplete or incorrect data.
Mike Brooks of Mtell explained how a new analytics solution can predict performance degradation of equipment weeks in advance using weak sig-nals that people would not have picked up on. In his experience, by the time problems are noticed, some damage has often already occurred. This compresses the time available to apply maintenance, leaving little option for scheduling both maintenance and related operational activities. The solution can also prescribe how to maintain equipment or adapt processes to avoid deterioration. He also reported cases in which users did not trust the first detection of an anomaly, ultimately resulting in equipment damage. Mr. Brooks used the term “process abuse” to indicate how the process can inadvertently be pushed for performance reasons without understanding that this can shorten the asset longevity. Processes need to be changed to avoid recurring
Full remediation can be expensive, as inspecting data for quality is tedious and costly. Scheeren recommends that focusing on the most important data might be more affordable and effective. He recommends that owner-operators structure data and compare them with reference data libraries from ISO standards. Dashboards representing data quality can help owner-operators assess urgencies and gaps and used as a basis to create a plan. He said that data quality management can provide benefits in the range of 2 to 5 percent of the maintenance budget, in addition to longer term savings. Peter Spelberg-Jahn, product manager for Siemens COMOS agreed with the importance of ALIM data quality. He noted that only important, often-used data needs to be structured. Rarely used, auxiliary data can remain unstructured. The challenge according to Spelberg-Jahn, is to know what is important and what isn’t. Experience shows that this is highly dependent on the company and culture and cannot be derived in a straightforward manner from equipment categories or other PLM criteria. This means owner-operators need to asses which equipment or data have most impact on their performance based on their operating and
Mtell Condition-Based Monitoring Solution
damage, he insisted. He reported a case in which the software helped reduce downtime from 72 to 94 percent. A transportation company applied the solution and gained $10 million in just three months. By extending the scope, the benefits amounted to $200 million in two years.
BlueCielo ECM Solutions
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Yokogawa Mobile Solutions Concept
Evolving Automation Pyramid Yosuke Ishii of Yokogawa explained how the automation pyramid is changing with new production methodologies such as modularization and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. An increase in both high- and low-level data create opportunities for owner-operators. Mr. Ishii mentioned that Yokogawa has identified nine use cases, most related to mobile maintenance solutions. Customers have shown interest in combining augmented reality and mobile solutions to access equipment data, ERP data, and maintenance management information at the point where the equipment is located, thus helping to connect organizational sites. The company has implemented three cases to date, one that resulted in proven benefits of €20 to €50 thousand per annum.
As managing assets in industrial facilities becomes more complex, both from technical and organizational perspectives, owner-operators, engineering procurement and construction company’s (EPCs), and other stakeholders should carefully design their collaborative processes. All parties need to define their responsibilities related to maintaining and transferring shared asset information and agree upon common quality standards. A strategy for the handover and exchange of information during the lifecycle must be defined using the available ISO standards (15926, 18101, 14224). Applying ISO 15926, 14224, and 18101 Standards for Asset Lifecycle Information Management High-level processes must be complemented with modern applications, such as predictive and prescriptive analytics of both small (individual equipment-oriented) and big (equipment park-oriented) industrial data, mobile applications, new integration schemes and technologies and be fueled using more abundant sensor information in close to real time. These measures should help optimize the total value of ownership or profitability for all stakeholders. They should be practical and effective and not be hindered by rigid principles or beliefs. For example Industrial IoT (IIoT) applications can complement existing automation networks and existing IT applications in plant or enterprise environments.
Author: Valentijn De Leeuw, Vice President of Consulting at ARC’s European Organization works 34 | Automation
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ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL & OPTIMISATION
Leading The Way in Safety and Accuracy – The Okazaki Fan Type
At Okazaki, we’ve built our reputation on delivering solutions that meet the ever-growing needs of our valued clients. And in over 60 years, we’ve continued to develop our solutions using the latest technology. We know that accuracy and safety are at the top of your agenda which is why, particularly in the case of our Fan Type thermocouples, they’re unique in offering higher reliability than that of competing thermocouples on the market. The Fan Type has been designed to deliver maximum results for process fired heaters. We know that failure in your facilities can have a critical effect. And owing to the exact accuracy required, our thermocouple was designed to deliver meticulous accuracy and reliable temperature measurement capability. By installing the Fan Type you’ll also benefit from lower installation costs as the Fan Type removes the need for costly installation engineers. Its unique design combined with mineral insulated cable also means that you’ll benefit from quality results such as higher levels of accuracy, a reduction of process variability and long life potential the Fan Type is guaranteed for four years plus. The clever design of the Fan Type means that it’s the 36 | Automation
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optimum size for attachment to the pipe. Also, it’s not too large to act as a fin and draw radiant heat into the measuring point; increasing the tube measurement temperature. Plus there will also be a significant reduction in any heat sink effects and metal dustings in the pipe. The Fan Type is suitable for an extensive range of heating equipment. So regardless of whether it’s gasfired, light fuel or heavy fuel oil burning heaters, you’ll be able to choose a standard Hastelloy-X sheath that meets the individual needs of your requirements. We also know that when your heater is up and running, the tubes in the furnace have the ability to move and expand between 50 and 350 metres. Which is why the Fan Type is a far more reliable solution. It can be adapted easily – both bent and coiled, forming expansion coils. So you’re able to benefit from compensatory movement in both horizontal and vertical axes. And not forgetting the safety side, our Fan Type thermocouple meets stringent international approvals. Plus you can also remain safe in the knowledge that they’re fully certified for use in hazardous environments.
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The First ISA UAE Automation Conference and Exhibition 2016.
Attracting over 750 participants from over 24 different countries, 35 Exhibitors, 70 National, Regional and International speakers the Third ISA Europe, Middle East, Africa Conference and Exhibition 2015 ended in success. This two day conference, served as the perfect opportunity for Networking and Knowledge Sharing, while exhibitors had the opportunity of showcasing their latest products and technologies and gain on the spot valuable feedback from End Users themselves.
This year, we are pleased to announce the First UAE Automation Conference and Exhibition officially supported by ADNOC, happening from the 30th of May to the 31st of May 2016 at the St. Regis Saadiyat Island Hotel, Abu Dhabi.
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INSIGHT! FEATURE “Dear Friends and Colleagues, The 3rd Europe, Middle East, Africa ISA Conference and Exhibition was held last year in Abu Dhabi for the first time and was officially supported by ADNOC in order to introduce the ISA activities to the UAE. After the huge success of the event we believe that ADNOC Group of Companies should play an active role in supporting and developing the ISA UAE Chapter and establish a platform for knowledge exchange in the latest automation technologies. It is with this vision GASCO will patronize the 1st ISA UAE Conference & Exhibition to be held 30th & 31st May 2016 at the St. Regis Sadiyaat Island. This ISA event offers a unique opportunity for automation professionals, equipment manufacturers and service providers to share & exchange experiences and explore the latest products & most recent innovations & technologies. This long awaited event will be attended by regional and international experts and decision makers, who will share their vision and solutions of the challenges that automation professionals face in their complex industrial environments. It is with great pleasure and honor, I take the privilege of welcoming your participation in this unique technical forum for the automation sector. I hope that your experience and interactions here will leave you inspired and better prepared for a prosperous future in your automation professional career.”
local content and to reflect the true position of UAE as a major market of automation products and technologies. The technical conference features a line-up of nationally and internationally distinguished speakers, addressing a spectrum of critical automation topics such as • Advanced Process Control &Optimisation • Asset Management • Digital Fields • Energy Management • Emission Monitoring & Control • FDI Technology • Flow Metering • Functional Safety & SIS • Industrial Control System Cyber Security • Process Analyzers • Turbomachinery Controls The comprehensive industry exhibition will showcase latest automation technologies and products from the vendors across the world. We shall also be introducing a student program to promote the importance of automation as an industry for future generations. I invite you to take full advantage of the 1st ISA UAE Automation Conference & Exhibition 2016 . As you attend technical sessions or walk by exhibition stalls, you will have the opportunity to learn the latest trends and applications. Please feel free to interact, as a casual conversation with peer or with the vendors which might open new horizons for you, or provide you with a solution to your chronic work problem. I wish you all a very successful experience of networking and business opportunities that will be generated from taking part in this event.”
Abdul Aziz A. Al Ameri Chief Executive Officer GASCO
“Dear Friends and Colleagues, The ISA UAE Automation Conference and Exhibition 2016 is a full-scale conference and tradeshow in the Gulf Region dedicated for process automation. The event will focus on measurement, control and safety system latest technologies and its applications through a two day Technical Conference and Product Exhibition. The event is being held in Abu Dhabi to emphasize on the 40 | Automation
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FEATURED PROJECT PROJECT NAME:
OMPET - Sohar PTA/ PET Name of Client
Oman International Petrochemical Industry Company LLC (OMEPT)
Estimated Budget ($ US)
850,000,000
Facility Type
Purified Teraphtalic Acid (PTA)
Sector Petrochemicals Status
EPC ITB
Location Sohar Project Start Q4-2012 End Date Q2-2019 Last Updated
06-01-2016
FEED WorleyParsons Uhde Inventa-Fischer BP - British Petroleum (UK) PMC WorleyParsons Main Contractor Award Date Q2-2016
PROJECT BACKGROUND Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (TAKREER) has announced plans to carry out modifications to process heavier offshore crude oil at Ruwais. Murban crude, which is used for feeding the new facilities, will be replaced by offshore crude from Upper Zakum fields and will be transferred by subsea pipeline to onshore. The project will modify RRE and CBDC Facilities to process 420,000 bpsd of Offshore Crude from Upper Zakum instead of Murban Crude.
PROJECT FINANCE Oman International Petrochemical Industry Company LLC (OMEPT) is the client. OMPET a JV of: • Oman Oil Company (OOC) - 50% • LG International (LGI) - 30% • Takamul Investment Co - 20% 42 | Automation
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PROJECT STATUS Date
Status
06 Jan 2016
OMPET receives bids for the EPC contract.
07 Dec 2015
The Technical and the Commercial proposals for the EPC contract are due by 21 December. OMPET plans to award the contract in June 2016.
07 Sep 2015
Seven contractors, three of which are Korean companies, are currently preparing bids for the EPC contract. Bids are due in October 2015.
01 Sep 2015
BP completes and delivers the FEED for the PTA licence.
02 Mar 2015
OMPET is targeting financial close on its PTA/PET complex by 30 June 2015. Construction work is scheduled to start before the end of 2015.
02 Mar 2015
Tchnology licence agreements have already been signed with Uhde Inventa-Fischer (UIF) for PET proprietary technology, and with BP for the PTA production know-how.
08 Feb 2015
The EPC-ITB was released. OMPET plans to award the EPC contract by June 2015.
22 Dec 2014
An invitation to prequalify for the EPC contract was issued.
30 Oct 2014
The FEED for the PTA and PET plants, and the utilities and offsite works have been completed.
28 Oct 2014
The FEED stage is almost complete. The ITB for the EPC contract is being prepared in order to be released in early 2015.
30 Mar 2014
WorleyParsons was awarded the PMC contract.
23 Jun 2013
Majis signed a MoU with the client, Oman International Petrochemical Industry Company LLC (OMPET) (under formation), to provide them with 30,500 m3/day of industrial water for the project.
14 May 2013
LG Corp. has acquired 30% of shares in the Oman International Petrochemical Industry Company LLC. LG Corp bought the stake as a part of a strategy to secure supply for project.
04 Dec 2012
Oman Oil Company and LG International have signed a Joint Development Agreement for the implementation of the PTA and PET plants in Port of Sohar Industrial Area. The project is to be operational by end 2016.
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PROJECT SCOPE •
The scope of work includes the construction of 1.1 million tonnes PTA and 500,000 tonnes of PET per annum plant and associated work.
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Awarded
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1Q-2014
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1Q-2015
EPC ITB
2Q-2016
Engineering & Procurement
3Q-2016
Construction
2Q-2019
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PROJECT LISTING
OMAN Project
Facility
Budget ($ US) Status
BP - Block 61 - Khazzan and Makarem Gas Fields Development
Gas Field Development
24,000,000,000
EPC ITB
Hydrocarbon Finder - Block 7 Onshore Exploration and Production
Exploration
50,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
150,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
SEZAD - Road, Infrastructure and Buildings Works at Berth Area (IP4) MOTC - Muscat International Airport
Airport
2,500,000,000
Construction
Orpic - Flare Gas Recovery System (FGRS)
Sulphur Recovery
40,000,000
EPC ITB
PDO - Rabab-Harweel Integrated Plant (RHIP)
Gas Processing
3,000,000,000
Construction
OPWP - 2600 MW IPPS in the Main Interconnected System (MIS) - Sohar3 IPP
Gas Fired Power Station
1,000,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
Orpic - Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (LPIC) - NGL Extraction Units
Natural Gas Liquefaction (NGL)
800,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
MOTC - Batinah Expressway - Package 8
Roads
300,000,000
EPC ITB
MOTC - Batinah Expressway - Package 9
Roads
300,000,000
EPC ITB
MOTC - Batinah Expressway - Package 11
Roads
300,000,000
EPC ITB
MOTC - Batinah Expressway - Package 7
Roads
300,000,000
EPC ITB
Jindal Steel and Power - Shadeed Iron Expansion
Steel Plant
2,000,000,000
EPC ITB
Omantel - Oman Telecommunications Company Headquarters (Package 6.2)
Commercial Buildings
50,000,000
EPC ITB
MOG - Block 55 Onshore Exploration and Production
Exploration
45,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - Fishery Harbour at Barka
Marine Terminal
35,000,000
Construction
SCTP - Batinah Coastal Road - Phase 2
Roads
700,000,000
PMC
Sohar Port and Freezone - Freezone Sohar
Duty Free Zone (DFZ)
2,000,000,000
Construction
ORC - National Railway Network - Overview
Railway
15,000,000,000
EPC ITB
SCTP - GCC Railway Network
Railway
14,000,000,000
EPC ITB
DRPIC - Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Complex - Duqm Refinery
Refinery
6,000,000,000
EPC ITB
PDO - Saih Nihayda Condensate Stabilization Plant
Gas Treatment Plant
100,000,000
Construction
PDO - Yibal Khuff Sudair Field Development
Oil Field Development
3,000,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
Duqm Petroleum Terminal Company - Duqm Liquid Jetty
Export Terminal
1,000,000,000
EPC ITB
Haya Water - Almudhaibi Sewage Treatment Plant and Sewerage Network
Sewerage Treatment
120,000,000
EPC ITB
MOTC - Batinah Expressway - Overview
Roads
3,500,000,000
Construction
Ministry of Housing - New Residential Area in Liwa (Zone D)
Residential Development
5,000,000
EPC ITB
Omran - Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre - Package 2
Convention and Exhibition Centres
220,000,000
Construction
Majid Al Futtaim - Mall of Oman
Malls/Retail Outlets
467,500,000
EPC ITB
OOMCO - Bunkering Terminal and Ancillary Facilities
Marine Terminal
80,000,000
EPC ITB
Oman Gas Company - Salalah LPG Extraction
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)
100,000,000
FEED
Ministry of Housing - New Residential Area in Liwa (Zone B)
Residential Development
50,000,000
EPC ITB
OPWP - Duqm IWP
Desalination
200,000,000
EPC ITB
OPWP - Salalah IWP
Desalination
300,000,000
EPC ITB
OPWP - Sharqiyah IWP
Desalination
250,000,000
EPC ITB
SEZAD - Infrastructure and Buildings Port of Duqm (IP2)
Commercial Buildings
30,000,000
EPC ITB
Omran - Al Irfan Urban Development
Mixed-Use Development
2,000,000,000
Design
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PROJECT LISTING
OMAN SDC - Sur IWP Expansion
Desalination
200,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Batinah Expressway - Package 3
Roads
350,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Batinah Expressway - Package 2
Roads
330,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Batinah Expressway - Package 1
Roads
360,000,000
Construction
ORPIC - Muscat-Sohar Product Pipeline (MSPP)
Oil
320,000,000
Construction
Ministry of Housing - New Residential Area in Liwa (Zone C)
Residential Development
50,000,000
EPC ITB
ORPIC - Sohar Refinery Improvement Project (SRIP)
Refinery
1,500,000,000
Construction
Ministry of Health - Sultan Qaboos Hospital
Medical/Health Facilities/Spa
120,000,000
EPC ITB
Salalah Free Zone Company - Salalah Free Zone Headquarters
Office Buildings
33,000,000
Construction
Musandam Power Company - Musandam Independent Power Project (IPP)
Independent Power Plant (IPP)
200,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
PDO - Khulud Tight Gas Development Project (KLD)
Gas Field Development
100,000,000
Feasibility Study
PDO - Amal Steam Phase 1C Surface Facilities
Gas Field Development
80,000,000
EPC ITB
ORC - National Railway Network - Sohar - Al Buriaimi
Railway
1,500,000,000
EPC ITB
PAEW - Wadi Dayqah Water Treatment Plant
Waste Water Treatment
130,000,000
EPC ITB
BP - Block 61 - Khazzan Gas Fields Development - Phase 1 - Consolidated Accommodation Camp
Residential Development
130,000,000
Construction
Oman Gas Company - Muscat Gas Network
Gas Network
100,000,000
FEED ITB
Oman Gas Company - Saih Nihayda to Duqm Special Economic Zone Gas Pipeline
Gas
250,000,000
EPC ITB
MOTC - Sohar Airport - Package 3
Airport
150,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
ORC - Duqm Freight Corridor
Industrial Park
Design
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries - Duqm Fishery Harbours
Marine Terminal
259,000,000
EPC ITB
PDO - Amal Steam Phase 1C-2
Oil Field Development
300,000,000
EPC ITB
MOTC - Sultan Qaboos Port Expansion
Port
390,000,000
Design
Jindal Shadeed Integrated Steel Complex
Steel Plant
750,000,000
Construction
OMPET - Sohar PTA/ PET
Purified Teraphtalic Acid (PTA)
850,000,000
EPC ITB
Haya Water - New Tankers STP at Al Misfah
Sewerage Treatment
130,000,000
EPC ITB
Haya Water - Seeb STP - Phase II
Sewerage Treatment
45,000,000
FEED
Duqm Petroleum Terminal Company - Duqm Liquid Jetty - Topside Facilities
Export Terminal
250,000,000
EPC ITB
MOTC - Khasab Port
Port
50,000,000
Design
MOTC - Shinas Port Development
Port
400,000,000
Feasibility Study
Masdar - Harweel Wind Power Plant
Power Plant
125,000,000
EPC ITB
Omran - Crown Plaza Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre - Package 7
Hotels
100,000,000
Construction
Haya Water - Expansion of Al Ansab STP
Sewerage Treatment
90,000,000
Construction
ORPIC - Petcoke Handling and Storage Facility
Petroleum Coke
60,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
Oman Aluminium Rolling Company - Coil Coating Plant
Aluminium Smelter
33,000,000
Construction
Orpic - Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (LPIC) Overview
Polyethylene
3,600,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
SEZAD - Infrastructure & Buildings at the Commercial Pre-Gate and Gates and Inspection Zone (IP3)
Commercial Buildings
203,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
Orpic - Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (LPIC) - NGL Pipeline
Gas
400,000,000
EPC ITB
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OMAN Orpic - Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (LPIC) - Polyethylene and Polypropylene Units
Polyethylene
800,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
Orpic - Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (LPIC) - Steam Cracker
Ethylene
2,900,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
MOTC - Muscat International Airport and Salalah Airport - Cargo and MRO Facilities (MC12)
Airport
530,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Muscat International Airport - Catering Facilities (MC13)
Airport
12,000,000
Construction
PEIE - Rusayl Industrial Estate expansion - Package 2
Industrial Park
30,000,000
EPC ITB
PEIE - Rusayl Industrial Estate expansion - Package 1
Industrial Park
20,000,000
EPC ITB
SCTP - Al Robat - Salalah - Muscat Road
Roads
35,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Ibri -Yanqul Highway Dualisation
Roads
130,000,000
Construction
PEIE - Sohar Industrial Estate Phase 7
Industrial Park
55,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Duqm Airport (Overview)
Airport
182,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Duqm Airport (Package 3)
Airport
110,000,000
PMC ITB
MOTC - Port of Salalah - Phase 3
Marine Terminal
260,000,000
Design
PDO - Yibal Depletion Compression - Phase 3 (Y3DC)
Gas Processing
300,000,000
Construction
OPWP - Barka IWP
Desalination
600,000,000
EPC ITB
OPWP - Sohar IWP
Desalination
600,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
Executive Steering Committee of Oman University Project - University of Oman
Education/Training Facilities
80,000,000
PMC ITB
Oman Oil Company - Acetic Acid Manufacturing Plant
Acetic Acid
600,000,000
FEED
Majis - Central Aerobic Treatment Plant (CETRP) 1
Water Treatment
20,000,000
Construction
Majis - Seawater Intake Pumping Station II (SWIPSII) & Return System
Sea Water Conversion
80,000,000
Construction
Majis - Seawater Intake Pumping Station II (SWIPS II) & Return System Chlorination Plant
Industrial Production
8,000,000
Construction
Majis - Central Aerobic Treatment Plant (CETRP) 1 - Phase 2
Water Treatment
22,000,000
EPC ITB
Majis - Central Aerobic Treatment Plant (CETRPII)
Water Treatment
30,000,000
EPC ITB
DDC - Duqm Frontier Town - Phase 2
Mixed-Use Development
156,000,000
Design
Tatweer Duqm - Construction of the Duqm Refinery Services Corridor to the Lquid Jetty
Dredging/ Reclamation
40,000,000
EPC ITB
Masirah Oil Ltd - Block 50 (Masirah Bay Offshore) - Exploration
Exploration
25,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
OPWP - Salalah 2IPP
Combined Cycle
600,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
Omagine - Omagine Project
Mixed-Use Development
1,600,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
Oman Gas Company - Salalah Loopline
Gas Pipeline
70,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
PDO - Saih Rawl Depletion Compression Phase II
Gas Processing
250,000,000
Construction
OPWP - 2600 MW IPPS in the Main Interconnected System (MIS) - Ibri IPP
Gas Fired Power Station
1,000,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
PEIE - Ibri Logistics Area
Logistic Hub
120,000,000
Design
MOTC - Dualization of Samail Al-Madrah Road
Roads
45,000,000
EPC ITB
Renaissance Duqm Holding Company - Duqm Permanent Accommodation for Contractors (PAC)
Residential Development
196,000,000
Construction
Oman Gas Company - Oman - Iran Subsea Natural Gas Pipeline
Gas Pipeline
600,000,000
Feasibility Study
Ministry of Housing - New Residential Area in Liwa - Schools and Health Centre
Mixed-Use Development
50,000,000
Design
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PROJECT LISTING
OMAN Ministry of Housing - New Residential Area in Liwa - Infrastructure Package
Mixed-Use Development
250,000,000
Construction
Oman Food Investment Holding Company - Slaughterhouses
Food Processing Plant
103,000,000
EPC ITB
A'Namma Poultry Company - Poultry Project
Food Processing Plant
258,000,000
EPC ITB
Mazoon Dairy Company - Dairy Farm
Food Processing Plant
260,000,000
EPC ITB
MOTC - Salalah Airport
Airport
750,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Batinah Expressway - Package 10
Roads
150,000,000
EPC ITB
Sun Metals - Steel Mill Plant
Steel Mill
500,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
Alara Resources Limited - Copper-Gold Processing Plant
Copper
45,000,000
Feasibility Study
MOTC - Batinah Expressway - Package 5
Roads
330,000,000
Construction
Ministry of Housing - Eint Heights
Mixed-Use Development
50,000,000
Design
Saraya Bandar Jissah - Saraya Bandar Jissah
Beaches and Resorts
60,000,000
Construction
PDO - Miraah Solar Thermal Power Plant
Solar
600,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
MOTC - Batinah Expressway - Package 6
Roads
320,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Batinah Expressway - Package 4
Roads
350,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Ras Al-Hadd Airport
Airport
300,000,000
Construction
SEZAD - Jurf and Saay Channels
Marine Terminal
65,000,000
EPC ITB
BP - Block 61 - Khazzan Gas Fields Development - Phase 1 - Overview
Gas Field Development
15,000,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
PAEW - Water Distribution Networks at Wilayat Bidbid
Distribution Network
43,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
Supreme Council for Planning - South Batinah Logistics Area
Mixed-Use Development
500,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
MOTC - New Musandam Airport
Airport
250,000,000
Design
MOTC Khasab -Tibat Coastal Road
Roads
120,000,000
Construction
SEZAD - Duqm Port Water Distribution Network
Distribution Network
20,000,000
Construction
SEZAD - Duqm Development Drainage Network and protection schemes Phase 1
Dam
26,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Masirah Island Causeway
Causeway
600,000,000
Feasibility Study
MRMWR - Wadi Al Khawd Flood Protection Dam
Dam
140,000,000
EPC ITB
MRMWR - Al Jufainah Flood Protection Dams (B6)
Dam
120,000,000
EPC ITB
MRMWR - Madinat Al Nahdah and Al Mahag Flood Protection Dams
Dam
80,000,000
EPC ITB
MRMWR - South Al Batinah Flood Protection Scheme
Dam
150,000,000
Feasibility Study
MRMWR - Wadi AL Jifnin Flood Protection dam
Dam
110,000,000
EPC ITB
MRMWR - Wadi Aday Gorge Flood Protection Dams (G2)
Dam
80,000,000
EPC ITB
PEIE - Sumail Industrial Park - Infrastructure Facilities
Industrial Park
110,000,000
Construction
OPWP - Khasab IWP
Desalination
100,000,000
Feasibility Study
Haya Water - Seeb STP - Phase III
Sewerage Treatment
120,000,000
FEED ITB
ORPIC - New Bitumen Refinery
Bitumen
340,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
OETC - Sohar Free Zone New 220/132/33kV Grid Station
Power Grid
50,000,000
Construction
Haya Water - Al Amerat Waste Water Project - Northern Area Sewer and Treated Effluent Pipeline
Sewerage
60,000,000
Construction
Oman Oil Company - Salalah Ammonia Plant (Luban)
Ammonia
750,000,000
EPC ITB
PEIE - Sur Gate
Mixed-Use Development
312,000,000
Construction
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OMAN Oman Sugar Refinery Company - Sugar Refinery
Food Processing Plant
200,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
Strategic & Precious Metals Processing - Antimony Metal and Trioxide
Industrial Production
65,000,000
EPC ITB
Haya Water - Al Amerat Waste Water Project - Al Amerat STP
Sewerage Treatment
65,500,000
Construction
Omran - W Hotel Muscat
Hotels
80,000,000
Construction
OPWP - Qurayat IWP
Independent Water Project (IWP)
350,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
OMPIA - Metaxylene/Purified Isophthalic Acid Plant
Purified Teraphtalic Acid (PTA)
500,000,000
FEED
OTTCO - Ras Markaz Crude Oil Park - Export Terminal
Export Terminal
400,000,000
FEED
OTTCO - Ras Markaz Crude Oil Park - Crude Storage Facility
Oil Storage Tanks
80,000,000
FEED
SEZAD - Seawater Supply and Disposal System
Sea Water Conversion
70,000,000
FEED
Orpic - New LR Line from MAF Refinery to PDO
Oil
45,000,000
FEED ITB
Occidental - Solar Power Plant
Solar
300,000,000
Feasibility Study
Muscat Municipality - Muttrah redevelopment
Mixed-Use Development
1,240,000,000
Design
Taameer Investment - Shaza Kempinski Hotel and Resort
Beaches and Resorts
182,000,000
EPC ITB
Atyab Investments - Grain Storage and Handling Terminal
Marine Terminal
41,000,000
Construction
The Omani Hospitality Company - Kempinski The Wave Muscat
Hotels
300,000,000
Construction
Haya Water - Al Amerat Waste Water Project - Western Area Sewer and Treated Effluent Pipeline - A2
Sewerage
80,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Sinaw - Duqm Road - Phase 2
Roads
115,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Dualization of Bidbid - Sur Road - Section 2
Roads
400,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
PDO - Zauliah Gas Plant Project
Gas Processing
110,000,000
Construction
PDO - Rabab-Harweel Power Plant and Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG)
Power Plant
135,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
PDO - Zauliyah Gas Compression Project - Phase 3
Gas Processing
58,200,000
Construction
Oman Gas Company - Murayrat PLS Upgrade
Gas Processing
100,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
Ministry of Heritage and Culture - Oman Across Ages Museum
Theatre/Entertainment/Leisure Facilities
45,000,000
Construction
Oman International Container Terminal - Port of Sohar - Phase II (Terminal D)
Marine Terminal
350,000,000
Design
MOTC - Dualization of Barka - Nakhal Road
Roads
180,000,000
Construction
BP - Block 61 - Khazzan Gas Fields Development - Phase 1 - Central Processing Facility
Gas Processing
1,200,000,000
Construction
OOCEP - Block 60 Concession - Onshore
Oil & Gas Field
1,100,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
ORC - National Railway Network - Sohar - Khatmat Malaha Line
Railway
800,000,000
PMC ITB
ORC - National Railway Network - Muscat - Sohar Line
Railway
1,800,000,000
PMC ITB
ORC - National Railway Network - Muscat - Duqm Line
Railway
2,000,000,000
PMC ITB
MOTC - Diba - Lima - Khasab Road - Section 2
Roads
1,000,000,000
EPC ITB
Ministry of Defence Pension Fund - Jabal Akhdar Anantara Hotel Resort & Spa
Beaches and Resorts
55,000,000
Construction
Minister of Health - Sultan Qaboos Medical City
Medical/Health Facilities/Spa
1,000,000,000
Design
ORC - National Railway Network - Al Buraimi - Duqm - Salalah Line
Railway
3,000,000,000
PMC ITB
PAEW - Qurayyat Tie in
Water
60,000,000
Construction
Royal Oman Police - Royal Oman Police Hospital
Medical/Health Facilities/Spa
570,000,000
Construction
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OMAN Haya Water - Seeb STP - Phase II - Package 2
Sewerage Network
70,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
Haya Water - Al Amerat Waste Water Project - Al Hajir STP
Sewerage Treatment
50,000,000
Feasibility Study
SEZAD - Duqm Special Economic Zone
Mixed-Use Development
500,000,000
Design
Haya Water - Al Amerat Waste Water Project - Eastern Area Sewer and Treated Effluent Pipeline
Sewerage
63,000,000
Construction
Haya Water - Seeb Sewage Network
Sewerage Network
50,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
PDO - Ghaba North Gas Field Re-Development
Gas Field Development
250,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
PAEW - Water Distribution Network in Sur City and Adjoining Area
Distribution Network
50,000,000
Construction
Orpic - Long Residue (LR) Line at Mina Al Fahal Refinery
Pipeline
100,000,000
FEED ITB
BP - Block 61 - Khazzan Gas Fields Development - Phase 1 - Package 1
Gas Field Development
1,500,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Dualization of Adam - Thumrait Road - Part 1
Roads
300,000,000
Construction
Omran - Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre - Package 5.8 (Link Road)
Roads
10,000,000
EPC ITB
Omran - Hotel 3 & Serviced Apartments – OCEC Package 9
Hotels
90,000,000
PMC ITB
MOTC - Dualization of Adam - Thumrait Road - Part 2
Roads
250,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Dualization of Ibri - Al Dariz - Miskin Road Stage 2 (Hujermt - Miskin Section)
Roads
70,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
MOTC - Grade Separated Junctions Along Batinah Highway - Part 3
Bridge
50,000,000
EPC ITB
MOTC - Dualization of Mahdah - Al Rawdah Road
Roads
215,000,000
Construction
Sohar Flour Mills - Flour Mills
Food Processing Plant
40,000,000
EPC ITB
Sohar Industrial Port Company - Majees Reclamation
Dredging/ Reclamation
190,000,000
EPC ITB
Tilal Development Company - Muscat Grand Mall Expansion Project (Phase III)
Malls/Retail Outlets
140,000,000
EPC ITB
OTTCO - Main Line Oil - Ras Markaz Crude Oil Terminal Pipeline
Oil
300,000,000
FEED
MRMWR - Sewerage Network System For Wilaytat AL-Suwaiq (AL Batinah North)
Sewerage Network
60,000,000
EPC ITB
MRMWR - North Al Batinah Flood Protection Scheme
Dam
180,000,000
Feasibility Study
OETC - 132kV Linking System between Al Falaj - Muttrah and Wadi Kabiar Grid stations
Power Grid
70,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
PAEW - Water Distribution Network in Sunaynah
Distribution Network
15,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Sinaw - Duqm Road - Phase 1
Roads
100,000,000
Construction
MOTC - Wadi Minqal - Wadi Bani Jaber Road
Roads
37,000,000
Construction
Duqm Beach Resort - Duqm Beach Touristic Resort
Mixed-Use Development
500,000,000
Design
Centralised Utilities Company (CUC) - Duqm IWPP
IPWP (Independent Power & Water Project)
800,000,000
PMC ITB
Omran - Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre - Package 3
Convention and Exhibition Centres
250,000,000
Construction
Sundus Investments Projects - Sundus Rotana Hotel
Beaches and Resorts
60,000,000
Construction
Oman Investment Fund - Alila Salalah
Beaches and Resorts
120,000,000
Design
OETC - Misfah 400/220kV Grid Station
Power Grid
65,000,000
Engineering & Procurement
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Choice to Change 2016 first quarter updates Founded in July 2010 by Eva Kernova, Sunil Baroi, and later joined by Mohammed, President & CEO of DMS Global, the Choice to Change Foundation (C2C) has seen significant growth over the years with the aim to educate underprivileged children, thus stopping the cycle of poverty in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, through continuous efforts of all it’s volunteers and supports. The foundation is pleased to announce the following new achievements since its last update: • C2C is now certified by NGO Affairs Bureau (NGOAB) The NGO Affairs Bureau (NGOAB) was established in 1990, and is a one-stop service to the NGOs, operating with foreign assistance and registered under the Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulation Ordinance, 1978. Achieving this certification,enables C2C to directly connectwith the government of Bangladesh,making it easier to gain foreign assistance, foreign donations as well as promote voluntary activities. In addition, it will facilitate our activities in the country and ensure our accountability to the state and thereby to the people of the country. 52 | Automation
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• C2C proudly introduces a new grade to its school, Grade 5 What started out as an education project in 2010, with only 25 students in the nursery grade, it has now grown to: • • • • • • • •
150 total students 9 full-time teachers An Executive Director A Project Officer A Project Coordinator A full-time nurse A Social Worker A Head Cook
And is still growing in size, hence every year our school upgrades a new grade/batch and admits some new students in the previous grade. Starting in 2016, we are not only pleased to announce that we have got Grade 5, but also that Grade 5 will be taking part in the first public examination in Bangladesh called PSCE (Primary School Certificate Examination).
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C2C admits 20 new students to Nursery
As mentioned above, C2C is still growing, and with the continuous help of our supports, sponsors and volunteers,we have been able to accommodate 20 new students to the school after collecting proper information and visiting door to door in Lalmati slums. Stay updated with what’s new at the C2C Foundation in the next issue of Automation Insight! If you’re interested in getting involved with this worthy cause, contact Mohammed Loch at mloch@ dmsglobal.net.
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About C2C
The Choice to Change (C2C) was founded by Eva Kernova, and Sunil Baroi, in July 2010. They chose to change the lives of poverty-stricken children in the slums of Dhaka by paving an educational pathway for them to follow. Attaining any type of formal education would have been impossible for these underprivileged children without the help of such a non-profit organisation. The school now comprises of 148 children, 9 teachers headed by headmaster, social worker, a nurse and a head-cook. In 2013 DMS Global partnered with C2C to cover the administration and marketing costs as well as the responsibility of the fundraising for the school operations as part of their CSR initiative. http:// thechoicetochange.org MARCH 2016 | Automation
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