Remote Diagnostics Surveillance Improves Fiscal Assurance

摘要

In the high-risk environment of the oil and gas industry, an enormous amount of resources is employed and devoted to ensuring the environment, the assets we manage and our personnel are protected. From a business perspective, the overarching discipline of managing change can be categorized as "fiscal assurance" as the focus is upon guaranteeing long-term profitability. To achieve this fiscal assurance, we must know the quality, quantity and physical properties of the fluids we are dealing with, and safely mahage the process conditions in which they are handled. Therefore, it is critical that we can rely upon the devices we use to measure and control these fluids. Historically, assurance the measurement and control systems handling these fluids are operating accurately was achieved by manual inspection and calibration processes performed at predefined intervals. There is a real risk to achieving fiscal assurance when it is possible for the measurement of fluid properties, quality and movement to deviate outside normal control limits in the time intervals between validation events.