An Implementation Plan for Integrated Control and Asset Management of Petroleum Production Facilities

Abstract

Abstract-This paper addresses innovative issues of asset management for the petroleum industry, which is very crucial for profitable oil and gas facilities operations and maintenance. A research project was initiated to study the feasibility of an intelligent asset management system. Having proposed a conceptual model for such a system in previous work [1], [2], we describe its behavior in terms of data and control flow, and pave the way for an implementation and rapid prototyping plan for such system. Furthermore we discuss the required off-the-shelf development tools. A simplified system prototype is introduced as a colored petri net model, which will be used to analyze the prototype logical structure and dynamic performance. We finally discuss the project progress status and future work.

A Multi-agent System for Integrated Control and Asset Management of Petroleum Production Facilities - Part 2: Prototype Design Verification

“…This validates the design decisions and the system requirements upon which the system was designed [1], [9], [2], [10], [11], [3], [12], [13], [14], [15], [4], [16], [5], [17], [?]. Real-time simulation experiment was designed to analyze the performance of the ICAM system prototype in terms of its logical behavior and its response to the external environment dynamics.…”

Fault Detection, Isolation and Accommodation Using the Generalized Parity Vector Technique

“…An interface level PI controller maintains the height of the oil/water interface by manipulating the water dump valve. While the oil level is controlled by the second PI controller through the oil discharge valve, the vessel pressure is maintained constant by the third PI loop [5].…”

“…For our specific application, a wireless sensor network agent manages real time communications between the control room and the offshore oil facility. For further information on the Petroleum Application of Wireless Systems (PAWS) project see [5]. Therefore, the frequency of the data set received in the control room is also restricted by the wireless network specifications.…”

Multi-agent Systems for Industrial Applications: Design, Development, and Challenges

“…A new research program ICAM (Intelligent Control and Asset Management of industrial facilities) was initiated by a joint venture of Atlantic Canadian universities and National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to benefit from the success and limitations of the AEGIS, CHEM-DSS and other projects, to build on their experiences, to complement their developed tasks, and to push the envelope by evaluating and incorporating state of the art of fault diagnosis, artificial intelligence (AI) and wireless sensor networks techniques (Taylor, 2004). This will be embedded in a fully automated system architecture, which will better support process operators and improve operability (Larimore, 2005;Omana & Taylor, 2005;2007;Sayda & Taylor, 2006;2007a;c;2008a;c;Smith et al, 2005;Taylor & Omana, 2008;Taylor & Sayda, 2005a;. Figure 1 illustrates the ICAM system, to which measured data from the industrial facility are transmitted, and interpreted for better process control and management.…”

“…• Although we proposed the hierarchical colored petri nets approach to design the internal logic of the ICAM system reactive agents in our development plan (Sayda & Taylor, 2006), we did design the agents' internal logic in an ad hoc manner. We faced some difficulties during the design stage of the ICAM system prototype, as more functionalities were added.…”