Control Rooms: Achieving SCADA Operational Readiness, Compliance

摘要

(P&GJ) - Implementing a comprehensive control room management (CRM) plan in today's energy market can be a challenging task in that integrating it with modern supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems adds layers of complexity to the project's implementation and compliance requirements. Taking a holistic view of control room management shows there are multiple facets, depending on your situational point-of-view. Some aspects are specific to pipeline safety code compliance while others are related to pipeline operations. The nexus of these various perspectives is the safe, efficient transfer of product (gas or hazardous liquid). Figure 1 illustrates the functional grouping of CRM components. Commercial operation, which includes product purchase, sales and supply, represents the primary commercial function of the pipeline, with pipeline control and measurement playing critical support functions.