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Amerada Hess implements Emerson's AMS Suite: Equipment
Performance Monitor Web-based Solution
Company can now manage assets to maximize production from remote
locations on and offshore
Teesside, United Kingdom, October 01, 2001 -
Emerson Process Management's web-based equipment performance
monitoring solution, AMS
Suite: Equipment Performance Monitor has been
selected by Amerada Hess to provide remote monitoring of critical
process equipment for its Triton Floating Production Storage and
Offloading (FPSO) operations in the Central North Sea Field, U.K.
The Triton FPSO is critical to Amerada Hess for upstream
petroleum that forms part of the Bittern & Guillemot West
field's subsea infrastructure. AMS Performance Monitor will
monitor centrifugal compressors and seawater injection pumps that
are crucial to maintaining a constant stream of exporting gas via
the Fulmar Gas Line to St. Fergus, near Aberdeen and Water Injection
to the reservoir. AMS Performance Monitor will pinpoint any degradation of
performance, enabling preventative action to take place, thus
assisting in optimizing the field's planned production profile.
This contract forms part of an alliance with Wood Group
Engineering who have overall extensive support services
responsibility (including maintenance management) for the Triton
FPSO and Sulzer Wood who are responsible for maintenance of the
equipment monitored by AMS Performance Monitor.
"We need to maximize production from the fields, and that
calls for us to know how the equipment is performing within the
critical processes," commented David Stewart, Triton Support
Services Manager for Wood Group Engineering. "We see AMS
Performance Monitor as a means of gathering the pertinent information via the worldwide
web and working with on-site operators and engineers to manage the
equipment performance."
AMS Performance Monitor will allow Amerada Hess, Wood
Group Engineering and Sulzer Wood personnel to browse their
equipment operational data and performance monitoring results from
remote locations on and offshore within a secure web environment.
This will allow operators to assess the effect of plant equipment
performance in terms of throughput, downtime and stability, and can
assist operators to troubleshoot plant equipment problems remotely.
"We are pleased that Amerada Hess has joined the many
operators in the North Sea that are realizing the significant
benefits available from AMS Performance Monitor," said
Dave Smith, Sales Director of the Performance Monitoring and
Optimization business unit of
Emerson Process Management. "This contract award provides
another example of how our proven technology is delivering valuable
equipment performance monitoring through the Internet. In our
experience to date, maintenance strategies have been greatly
improved with significant cost savings and increased production
figures, including examples of over US$1 million per year by
reducing equipment downtime and US$3 million per year through
increasing production due to improved equipment efficiency".
AMS Performance Monitor is a key element of the Asset
Optimization offering of Emerson Process Management, which combines
world-class services with innovative products to significantly
improve process plant reliability. The results include improved
process availability, increased productivity, and reduced equipment
cost-of-ownership.
Designed specifically for personnel involved with maintenance,
reliability or rotating equipment, AMS Performance Monitor supports all
major process plant equipment including compressors, gas and steam
turbines, heat exchangers, boilers, furnaces and pumps.
Process data is automatically collected and submitted daily to
Emerson Process Management. This data is then validated for
consistency and accuracy, and then compared against a pre-defined
design model allowing the calculation of performance parameters,
such as efficiency, equipment deviation vs. original design
conditions, and the actual cost of performance deviation. This
precise cost, measures how the equipment is degrading from its
original operating ('as new') conditions.
About
Emerson Process Management
Emerson
Process Management, an Emerson business, is a leader in
helping businesses automate their production, processing and
distribution components in the chemical, oil and gas, pulp and
paper, power, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and other
industries. The company combines superior products and technology
with industry-specific engineering, consulting, project management
and maintenance services. Its brands include PlantWeb®, Fisher®,
Micro Motion®, Rosemount®, Daniel®, DeltaV™, Ovation®, and AMS™
Suite.
About Emerson
St. Louis-based Emerson
is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together
to provide innovative solutions to customers in process control;
electronics and telecommunications; industrial automation; heating,
ventilating and air conditioning; and appliances and tools. Sales in
fiscal 2000 were $15.5 billion.
All other brands or names are
property of their respective holders.
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