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Automation Fair 2011

Oil & Gas Industry Forum

Wednesday, November 16 • 1:30PM to 4:00PM • Room W190B

With long-term demand curves exceeding current energy production capabilities and a continued spotlight on safety, there is enormous pressure on energy-focused companies to explore, produce, transport and process oil and gas more efficiently to positively impact their bottom lines. This forum will present expert industry views and customer case histories that explore and demonstrate innovative ways to meet the industry's dynamics and drivers.

You Will Learn

How your peers are meeting and taking advantage of industry trends and issues impacting their business by implementing solutions like the following:

• Integrated control, power and safety
• Process automation
• Critical control and safety
• Compressor control
• Intelligent motor control
• Asset performance management of digital operations
• Environmental monitoring, management & reporting

Who Should Attend?

Personnel at Oil & Gas focused organizations and related businesses including:

• Facility
• Engineering
• Maintenance and Repair
• Safety

Agenda

• How Petrobras Has Chosen Rockwell Automation to Help Meet Its Pre-Salt Challenges

  Alexandre R. Maia | Manager - Production Installation Engineering, PETROBRAS

  Extracting oil and gas reserves from thousands of feet of salt and rock deposits deep below the Atlantic Ocean is challenging and expensive. This presentation looks at how Petrobras, Brazil's largest company, assessed the challenges it faced trying to access this natural resource deposit, and tried to find a partner capable of handling a project of this magnitude at Caraguatatuba, which is expanding in scope. Requirements include: Application experience, the ability to integrate multiple sub-systems on the project and in the future meet Petrobras' needs to have its suppliers use a greater percentage of locally-produced products.

• Global Expansion and Key Project Successes Including Tank Farm Automation at Chad Refinery

  Wang XingYi | Deputy Chief Engineer of CNODC and President of SORESCO

  This presentation looks at how CNPC, China National Petroleum Company, is expanding globally to support the international energy market. As part of this presentation you will learn about their partnering strategy including an overview of SORESCO, the joint venture between CNPC and Costa Rica, as well as information on key projects including the successful deployment of the Chad refinery's tank farm automation system.

• A Case Study On Compressor Unit and Station Control Panel Replacement

  Jennifer Schaller | Lead Electrical Engineer, National Fuel
  Mark Adelmann | Vice President, Automation & Electrical Design, EN Engineering

  National Fuel and EN Engineering will give a joint presentation describing recent completed automation upgrade projects at the National Fuel Roystone and Independence compressor stations. The purpose of these projects was the replacement of compressor unit control panels and station control panels at each site, with the following objectives:

  • Improve reliability
  • Enhance data reporting capabilities
  • Provide improved compressor control performance and monitoring
  • Provide a higher degree of automation at these facilities.

  This was a turnkey project which included control system design, panel fabrication, PLC and HMI programming, installation and commissioning.

• Evolution of Automation to Meet Industry Application Needs

  José Luis Pérez Navarro | Coordinator of Instrumentation and Control at the Mexican Petroleum Institute

  Over time, as markets, industries and global dynamics shift and evolve, enterprises need to change, modify or adapt their business models to align with this movement. In a global industry like Oil & Gas, the needs of an organization the size of Pemex are many and diverse when it comes to their automation, information, control and safety needs. This presentation will look at what Pemex seeks in a relationship or partnership with a controls vendor, how automation has changed to meet their needs, and it will provide some examples of how that relationship can develop over time to the mutual benefit of end user and supplier.