Success Story: Oil & Gas

I. CUSTOMER ENVIRONMENT / PROJECT CONTEXT

Customer profile:

• Tengiz is 1 of the most important O&G field in Kazkhstan: 285 000 barrels a day of high quality production.
• The field reserves are estimated at between 6 and 9 billions barrels, and production should reach 750 000 barrels a day by 2010, corresponding to an increase of 163% over 7 years.

Customer objective and constraints:

• The project aimed to propose an Electrical Distribution system for new sites intended to increase the existing gas production.
• In such a project, the availability of the electrical power from the HV network connection point to the LV load, is the main concern .

II. SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION

Implementation methodology (main phases):

Key success factors

• Ability to propose an engineered offer with:

        > A totally monitored and controlled system

        > A totally redundant architecture (in red in the schema)

• The experience of Schneider Electric in the Oil & Gas market to manage:

        > The technical and commercial requirements

        > Special needs (Russian GOST certification for ED)

        > Close relations with the EPC

•  Perfect collaboration of the teams and close relations to co-ordinate technical and commercial strategies.
•  Effective determination of customer needs and transfer of information to the technical teams to ensure an optimum solution.
•  The experience of the Schneider Electric worldwide network.
•  The market approach of the Schneider Electric Engineering division as well as its knowledge of the complete Schneider Electric catalogue that made it possible to offer a global solution with communication capabilities.

Duration:

3 years : 2003 - 2006

Solution overview (services, products, systems, architectures...):

III. RESULTS / ACHIEVEMENT

Customer benefits:

• A simple, user-friendly system, specially designed to fulfill EMCS and PMS functions.
• "Open" system, offering multiple SCADA possibilities for interfacing with all HV, MV and LV equipment and "process" control system.
• Upgradeable solutions with adaptable size and complexity.

Customer testimonies (Verbatim):

 "It is a turnkey solution, perfectly tailored to our needs ".

Schneider Electric differentiating values VS competitors:

• Deep understanding of energy monitoring & control in O&G.
• Solution and service provided, with 30000 hours of development work
• Strategic partnership with Chevron
• Capacity to invest