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AUTOMATION
Delivering natural gas from well to burnertip is an enormous enterprise.
The majority of the natural gas consumed in the United States is produced
at remote sites. It must then be transported to consumers through more
than 250,000 miles of transmission pipelines with the help of thousands
of compressors. Like all mechanical equipment, at any given time, compressors
can go down. Downed equipment builds a back up in production, and sales
volume goes down for the producer.
M2M’s iSCADA real-time compressor monitoring system continuously
monitors compressor units, confirming operability and alerting operators
when problems occur. From the Internet, the operators can look at key
operating parameters, such as status, suction pressure, discharge pressure
and error codes, and start and stop problem units without having to travel
to the site.
iSCADA cuts response times from two or three days to minutes. Every time
problem is found and fixed online, the quick turn-around provides higher
service revenues to compressor operator and happier customers.
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