A Premium Refinery: How IT can make profits

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A Premium RefineryHow IT can make profits
PETROBRAS
1998 PI System Users Conference Hildebrando
Ferrreira
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PETROBRAS

• The Company
• Automation Context
• PI Systems
• Our Differential

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PETROBRAS
The Company
Gas Pipelines
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PETROBRAS
The Company
Production Areas
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PETROBRAS
The Company
Refineries
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PETROBRAS
The Company

• 15th Petroleum Company in the World
• Headquarters in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• US 26.8 Billion Yearly Income
• US 3 Billion Yearly Investments
• 41,000 Employees

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PETROBRAS
The Company

• 1,020 bpd Oil Production
• 1,622,248 bpd Refining Capacity
• 10 Refineries, 2 Fertilizer Plants
• Unparalleled OffShore Technology
• Largest number of ISO-9000 certificates in Brazil

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PETROBRAS
Automation Context

• Process Units
• Tanking Farm
• Quality
• Utilities

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PETROBRAS
Automation Context

• Process Units
• All the 10 refineries have DCSs
• Advanced Control is used in the main control
• loops in the Distillation and Cracking Units

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PETROBRAS
Automation Context

• Tanking Farm
• 2-Wire Telemetry and Supervisory System
• On-Line Blending System (Gasoline and
• Diesel)
• Line-Ups Automation

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PETROBRAS
Automation Context

• Quality
• Procedure Automation with LIMS
• Chromatography

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PETROBRAS
Automation Context

• Utilities
• SCMD

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PETROBRAS
PI Systems

• 11 PI Systems (10 in refineries)
• 9 PI 2.1.1 in OPENVms Alphas
• 1 PI 3.1 in Windows NT 4.0
• 1 PI 2.1.1 running in the Headquarters

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PETROBRAS
PI Systems

• Collect Process, Tanking Farm, Quality and
• Utilities Data
• Interface to all the DCSs
• Interface to the on-line blending systems
• Used as a supervisory system in remote
• control rooms

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PETROBRAS
PI Systems

• Are the interfaces to the Advanced
• Process Control to write optimized set
• points to the DCSs
• Interface with PIMS and Hysim
• Exchange data with the Production
• Planning and Schedulling Management
• Send and receive data to and from
• relational databases

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PETROBRAS
PI Systems
Corporate Systems
RDBs
Headquarters PI
PI Systems
PIMS and Hysim
Advanced Control
DCSs
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PETROBRAS
Our Differential

• PI is used to send operational and
• process data to higher management
• levels via relational databases
• PI is the main source of information to
• the Advanced Control systems
• Improved Operation Management
• 90 Process and Production
• information needs are supplied by PI

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PETROBRAS
Our Differential

• Process Shortages Analysis
• Issues and problems are discussed in
• real time
• Yield data are available to sales and
• business operations
• US 0,17 per barrel benefit in the
• control loops with Advanced Control

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PETROBRAS
Our Differential

• PI is integrated with
• Corporate systems using RDBs
• PIMS and Hysim
• Advanced Process Control

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PETROBRAS
Our Differential
What we learned
The integration of Information Technology with
Process and Production Systems can achieve high
benefits.