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Statoil uses Honeywell to run Valemon platform remotely

Friday, January 13, 2012 in Automation

Oil major Statoil has selected the Honeywell "Experion" Process Knowledge System for its Valemon platform in the North Sea.

It will use Experion together with its Distributed System Architecture (DSA), which enables the company to integrate the system with its Kvitebjørn platform.

This can be used to enable the Valemon facility to be remotely commanded from the nearby Kvitebjørn platform.

Valemon is 160km West of the Norwegian coast and one of Statoil's largest development projects. It contains 1 per cent of all Norway's gas reserves. Production is planned to start in 2014.

Using Honeywell's Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS), work can be continuously controlled and monitored.

"Honeywell's technology reduces the investments needed to achieve the goal of an unmanned platform as minor additional equipment and minimum engineering is required," Honeywell says.

"The DSA will minimize production costs and increase safety for Statoil personnel, as well as reduce the risk of otherwise duplicated ICSS databases becoming inconsistent over time."

Guantak Park, purchasing manager, Samsung Heavy Industries, which is constructing the platform, said: 'We selected Honeywell because of the ability of their Process Knowledge System to seamlessly integrate with existing technology.

'The use of Honeywell DSA and PKS technologies at Valemon demonstrates the industry's recent step forward in resource recovery," says
Orhan Genis, vice president, sales, Honeywell Process Solutions.

"The ability to work remotely is opening up the possibility of extracting large untapped reserves in locations, such as the deep North Sea, that were previously too difficult, distant or dangerous to reach, while also helping to drive down costs and increase efficiency.'

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