Yokogawa Releases Oil Transloading Application

Yokogawa Corporation of America announces that it will release a panel packaged solution for metering truck/railcar unloading and loading based on the FCN-RTU* low-power autonomous controller of the STARDOM™ network-based control system on April 14, 2014. This new packaged solution has been developed to meet the requirements of our customers in the high-growth upstream oil & gas industries and complies with API MPMS 11.1, 11.4, 20.1, and ERCB Directive 17 guidelines.
*RTU: remote terminal unit

Development Background
With the rapid advance in oil and gas well drilling over the past few years, pipelines have not kept pace with new drilling sites. Many wells rely on truck and railcar transport to get the oil to refineries and distribution centers. With this increase in demand, customers reported that they were having the following issues with supplied components for their transloading and custody transfer solutions:

Unreliable (PC-based) HMI
High failure rate of motor/valve contactor
Long delivery times of 8 – 12+ weeks
Difficult to support vendor supplied components
Unreliable water cut
Salinity out of range of calculation
Unreliable net oil readings due to entrained gas
Too high power consumption for remotely located panels requiring solar power
Too narrow range of density to meet new crude oil well needs

Yokogawa Corporation of America carefully examined the customers’ needs and designed a low-power, reliable solution that meets industry needs.

Yokogawa’s approach packages a 4σ reliability net oil computer with a standard panel containing all the components needed to bring in flow, temperature, pressure, valve, and permissive IO to create a net oil metering solution for trucks, tanks, and railcars. This reduces the delivery time to 6 weeks or better and delivers a pre-configured package where parameter can be easily re-configured instead of requiring full engineering and programming at the site.

Product Features
1. Fully pre-packaged, pre-configured net oil computer solution

Pre-configured for four different types of coriolis and water cut meters
Configurable for up to four different salinity / brine density calculation methods
Supports 1 year of data logging for each transaction
Supports e-tickets/logs and paper printed tickets

2. Improved operating ranges

Temperatures ranging from −20°C to +70°C. These enhanced components are thus well suited for use in the very cold or hot weather conditions that can be encountered at oil and gas drilling sites
0% to 16%+ salinity
Supports stand-alone and networked database and logging solution
Low power consumption by net oil computer (as low as 1.6W )
Covers full range of fluids governed within the API MPMS 11.1 standard:
- Crude oil and refined products (610.6 to 1163.5 kg/m3 @60°F) OR (611.16 to 1163.79 kg/m3 @15°C)
- Lubricating oil (800.9 to 1163.5 kg/m3 @60°F) OR (801.25 to 1163.85 @15°C)

3. Liquid* and gas flow meter net oil corrections accurate to within 1%
STARDOM supports both liquid and gas calculations that are compliant with API MPMS standards
* Liquid net oil calculation is currently available in North America only.

Major Target Markets

Widely distributed facilities such as those used in oil and gas well and water and wastewater applications
Oil wells, tank batteries, custody transfer stations, transloading transfer skids, on trucks, at railcar loading and distribution centers
Water disposal wells and treatment centers

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