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Solution ScenarioOffshore Oil and Gas

Reducing the cost of communicating with

remote sites

Headquarters located on-shore Requires report information

from platforms Requires graphical displays,

trends and production information

Expensive communication between onshore and offshore sites

Bandwidth of satellite communication is limited, so direct communication between onshore and offshore must be minimized to avoid overloading

Issue: Communication with offshore platforms is expensive and has limited bandwidth

Industry: Oil and Gas

Inform IT Enterprise Historianservers (collection) are locatedon each platform

Enterprise Historian consolidationserver is located onshore

Historical data is collected offshore and is distributed to theonshore server

Industrial IT Solution

Industry: Oil and Gas

Enterprise Historian Collection

Enterprise Historian Consolidation

Onshore, the historian server has local access to the consolidated information (hourly values) from the remote platforms

Visualization through graphic displays and trends

Industry: Oil and Gas

Onshore local information access

Excel based reports are created onshore using DataDirect add-ins.

A Production Planning system uses historical information to determine production capability. Scheduling information is then sent back to the offshore platforms.

Onshore, the consolidated information is available at a glance without having to request information from each offshore platform

Industry: Oil and Gas

Onshore local information access

Industrial IT solution: Minimized communication cost and efficient data access

Inform IT’s ability to distribute and consolidate data reduces communication cost by over 50%. Satellite communication is

approximately 10 times more expensive than land based

Errors in data transmission are reduced by staying within the bandwidth limitations. The number of requests and quantity of data required across the satellite link has been decreased.

Industry: Oil and Gas