BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec.21
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
As Main Automation Contractor, the US-based Emerson is providing its Project Certainty methodologies and technologies, including digital twin solutions and cloud engineering, to accelerate the development of the BP-operated platform, the company told Trend.
Emerson was awarded a $14 million contract in October 2020 to provide automation technologies for the new Azeri Central East offshore platform in the Caspian Sea, the latest development in the Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli oilfield.
“Emerson is able to provide virtual testing and system integration while the platform is being built. In addition, with digital twin technology, Emerson can help train platform operators in a simulated environment so they are trained and ready for start-up. And cloud engineering enables global teams to collaborate and engineer the project, no matter where they are located – particularly important during the pandemic when travel is restricted.
“Furthermore, Emerson’s DeltaV automation system controls wellhead production as well as critical safety functions.
“In terms of additional services, Emerson’s wired and wireless networks will connect more than 1,000 measurement instruments on the platform to monitor pressure, flow, temperature and pipework corrosion, and we are providing our industry-leading critical control, emergency shutdown and isolation valves to the project,” the company said.
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