Dec 18,
SINOPEC announced that SUPCON won the long-distance natural gas pipeline SCADA
system project for the outstanding performance of SUPCON’s software platform, as
well as its extensive project management experience, in-depth understanding of
process features and favorable technical solutions.
Natural gas is an important
component of national energy, its strategic security relates to the national
economy and social development. As a key project of the “National 11th Five-year
Plan”, the project is regarded a milestone in the development of SINOPEC’s
natural gas business.
With a length of 580 kilometers,
the system is designed with 5 pipelines including 10 distributing (pigging)
stations and 31 valve stations (13 RTU valve stations). The project will run
through 1 direct-controlled municipality, 2 industrial powerhouses of China, and
across 38 large and medium-sized rivers, 62 highways, and 14
railways.
SCADA system is the core
automation platform of long-distance pipeline projects, which requires an
extremely high demand of openness, safety, reliability and stability. SUPCON
proposed an expansible and reliable large scale SCADA system to achieve
centralized monitoring, controlling and management of all the pipelines in the
area. Meanwhile, SUPCON adopts VxSCADA HMI software and VxHistorian large scale
database (for overall deployment and real-time monitoring) specifically to
fulfill the technical demand in administration center and station
control.
“We
have matured world’s advanced industrial-grade large distributed SCADA system products with our own independent intellectual property rights. These software
packages can be used on multiple operating system platforms, and the database
can support millions of I/O points,” said Mr. Wang Changzheng, SCADA Product
Manager of SUPCON.