Oil & Gas

How Control Station Brings Solutions To The Oil & Gas Industry

By virtue of its size and influence on other industry segments it can be argued that Oil & Gas is the dominant player among the process industries. In fact leaders within the sector make up five of the world’s eight largest companies as measured by annual Revenue, and output from the Oil & Gas sector plays a critical role in adjacent industries ranging from Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals to Rubber and Plastics. The complexity of Oil & Gas production also stands apart from other process segments and that same complexity has been a driving force behind advances in regulatory control technologies. When equipped with appropriate technologies for monitoring, analyzing and optimizing PID-based regulatory control systems, Oil & Gas producers improve both the safety and the profitability of their day-to-day operations.
Oil & Gas

Process Considerations

Government regulations frequently saddle Oil & Gas manufacturers with added emissions requirements. Keeping a plant’s base layer control systems in tune is a proven way of curbing excessive emissions. Holding production within acceptable tolerances helps to keep NOx and SOx in check.

Whether the process involves separation or distillation excessive variability jeopardizes safety and it negatively affects output. Optimizing the regulatory control layer improves the responsiveness to those inevitable upsets. That in turn delivers safer, more consistent production performance.

Whether planned or unplanned, downtime is something every manufacturing facility strives to avoid. Maintenance windows are managed tightly to minimize downtime and to ward off the possibility of costly unplanned outages. Properly tuned controllers reduce the wear and tear that leads to downtime.

Oil & Gas

Our Experience

Leading Oil & Gas manufacturers utilize our technologies to enhance both their upstream and downstream operations. What’s more, those same customers provide meaningful input that has energized our product development efforts. Our value is based on a broad understanding of critical extraction and refining processes as well as on deep domain knowledge of PID-based regulatory control. Following are specific areas where Control Station can contribute to improve plant performance.

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Monitoring
When process dynamics evolve slowly it can be difficult to know when those changes impact performance. With its ability to proactively identify and isolate mechanical, interaction and tuning issues, PlantESP equips production staff with valuable details along with the advance warning they need to maintain optimal control.

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Tuning
Tuning software has a long history of underperforming in the Basic Materials sector. LOOP-PRO is different. It is industrial-grade technology that’s unique in its ability to address both long Dead-Time and oscillatory processes. It makes the tuning process faster and more consistent which are keys to success for any manufacturer.

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Education & Training
Regular tuning of PID controllers has been proven to improve plant performance, but for many in the Basic Materials industry control loop tuning is a manual effort with hit-or-miss results. We’re experts in PID control and can share a simple, repeatable method for optimizing loop performance during each phase of production.
CONTROL STATION'S SOLUTIONS

Our Products & Services Help You Achieve Your Process Control Goals.

PlantESP
MONITORING
PlantESP
PlantESP proactively monitors control loop performance on a plant-wide basis.
LOOP-PRO
TUNING
LOOP-PRO
tune your facility’s most dynamic and challenging PID control loops for optimal performance.
LIFECYCLE SOLUTIONS
SERVICES
LIFECYCLE SOLUTIONS
We work with you to fill in the staffing gaps, skills, experience and tools.
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