Schneider Electric Presents the Digital Oil Field

Schneider Electric is showcasing new and innovative solutions to serve customers in the Oil and Gas industry to meet demand for increased energy efficiency throughout operations.

Schneider Electric's Digital Oil Field solution aims at making an oil field as productive and efficient as possible by reducing electrical and mechanical stress on machinery and anticipating any possible issue that could affect production while meeting customer requirements for integrated, scalable information and control technologies.

This solution is focused on three primary concerns: extending machine life, anticipating events by collecting precise information regarding machine operating states and historical data, optimising pumping based on online data and controller intelligence.

The size of oil fields, the range of installed products, and the number of pumping and control points determine the complexity of oil production field monitoring systems. The heart of a monitoring system is the SCADA system. This gives a "big picture" overview of all the oil field activities and allows the operator to know what is happening in the entire installation from a single control centre.

This control room is where the Process SCADA system (Vijeo Citect) collects information provided by Remote Terminal Units (RTU) in the field and allows monitoring and control of the wells, the electrical distribution networks, and all the different parts of the process. All this information helps keep the oil field fully operational, anticipating the events and sharing the relevant information with other areas of the oilfield.

Several solutions based on Schneider Electric equipment have been installed for more than 9 years. Variable Speed drives, soft and direct starters include specific functions for any kind of pumping application, including the ENergy Adaptation (ENA)

system to manage unbalanced loads for onshore pump jacks and torque limitors for Progressive Cavity Pumps.