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    Electrical Distribution and Power Management

    Providing uninterrupted electrical management and control is critical for max ROI. Meet reliability and energy reduction goals with proven solutions that monitor, control and optimise electrical for O&G infrastructure.

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    Discover Lifecycle Services

    Discover how our next-generation monitoring services deliver predictive analytics to help you get the most out of your critical assets, throughout their entire lifecycle.
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    EcoStruxure™ Triconex® - Tricon CX

    We understand that you need more from your safety instrumented systems than just keeping your operations safe - you need to keep operations running continuously, avoiding any unexpected downtime or interruption that impacts profitability.
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    New, unmatched engineering and industrial software offer

    Schneider Electric and AVEVA combine to bring you the industry-leading portfolio of engineering and industrial software.
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Electrical Distribution

Depending on the cost of crude oil, natural gas and electricity, approximately 40% to 60% of non-feedstock related conversion cost in petroleum refineries is energy cost (refinery fuel gas, natural gas electricity).
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Solutions

Schneider Electric supports the design & optimisation of electrical distribution architectures from basic design to load flow to hardware and system optimisation with a range of solutions that are compliant with both IEC & ANSI standards, as well as a manufacturing footprint that covers all geographies.
> Increase personnel and asset safety with built-in safety features
> Streamline decision-making with comprehensive data availability
> Boost availability through redundancy and cyber-security features
> Seamless integration of whole electrical distribution system and process control system
> Scalable and interoperable solution
> Maximised energy availability with intelligent fast load shedding and restoration schemes

Benefits and Differentiation

Our innovative and rigorous step-by-step design methodology abandons historical ‘Cut-Copy-Paste’, by using a new model of Electrical architectures with rigorous, fit-for-purpose optimisation of MV and LV Equipment (Transformers, SWG, SWBD, cables, …) leveraging reduction of costs, footprint and weight.
> Integrated motor management for critical load/process
> Accelerated time to first oil
> Outage management resulting in reduced deferred production
> Up to 25% reduction in Footprint

Highlighted Offer: E-house and RIE

Ensure quality and reliability of electrical energy distribution while optimising cost, execution and delivery of electrical subsystems. Fully tested and validated E-House or RIE delivered to site with blast and hazardous area ratings for offshore deployment.

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> Highly flexible solutions with 3D engineering and modelling tools enhance custom design to fit end use
> De-risk critical path through optimised project and planning management
> Controlled work/assembly environment reduces site incidents and optimises manufacturing quality
> Compliance to local and international standards
> CAPEX reduction through reduced on-site resources and reduced contingency cost

Intelligent Power and Motor Control Centre (iPMCC)

Type tested solution supporting smart device installation, application & system architecture, wiring recommendation, engineering guides and EMC compliance. Based on high dependability communication architectures.

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> Reduce costs and lead time at construction phase
> Detailed Low Voltage energy & process data visibility – anywhere and anytime
> Data-driven Energy Efficiency with more detailed and accurate information
> Predictive Maintenance and proactive alarming with possibility of transmitting all alarms immediately to appropriate users
> Totally integrated solution Low voltage with energy and automation control

Altivar Process

In industrial and infrastructure environment, electrical motors consume 70% of the energy. They are used to power pumps, fans, compressors, conveyors, cranes, crunchers etc… Drives are controlling motors.

Altivar Process, the first Service Oriented Drive, with its energy management services and assets management capabilities, allows our End User customers to:

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> Measure your plant’s energy consumption
> Control process equipment at its best efficiency
> Implement real-time asset management and predictive maintenance
> Reduce energy consumption by up to 35%
> Increase productivity by up to 20%

  • Schneider Electric E-House

    The Most Secure and Cost-efficient Global Solution for Critical Installations.

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Power management

Modern Refineries & Petrochemical plants use energy intensive processes. Such large localised grids need special power management solutions for stable operation since the cost of one power outage can exceed 10M US dollars.
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Solutions

Schneider Electric platforms provide an integrated solution to power management, ensuring optimal energy supply for enhanced production due to the elimination of electrical outages that would result in downtime and added cost.
We also reduce project risk with seamless integration to various control systems that are simple to operate while ensuring optimal energy supply and distribution for efficient production.

Benefits and Differentiation

> Reduce downtime in production, caused by electrical outages, unexpected halts or maintenance operation.
> Minimised operation and maintenance costs of electrical distribution networks
> Better post-outage electrical management
> Minimised energy costs and environmental impact
> Energy visibility through centralised SCADA monitoring, control and power management
> Ensured uptime of critical applications

Highlighted Offer: EcoStruxure Substation Operation

EcoStruxure Substation Automation is the solution to monitor, manage and forecast performance of assets for Maximising energy availability with a system that complies to IEC 61850.

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> Energy made visible and traceable everywhere with centralised monitoring, control & power management
> Ensured uptime of critical applications with generator management, steam management & load shedding
> Savings in OPEX & CAPEX, reduced need for spare parts through smarter use of assets and simulation tools
> Scalable and seamless integration of entire ED and control system
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White Paper

Integrated Power and Process Management: A value to the oil and gas industry.
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Brochure

Safe secure and reliable energy for Oil and Gas operations.
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Secure Power

The quality and availability of electrical power are crucial in many critical applications. In sensitive industrial sectors such as oil and gas, any lack of electrical power can create serious danger in process security, put human life at risk, and cause downtime.
 

Solutions

We offer a complete portfolio of power management solutions to help you maintain the highest system reliability, availability and efficiency – including a full scope of industrial power protection and precision cooling solutions for your business-critical equipment and applications.
Industrial UPS solutions with Gutor technology are ideal for both light & heavy industrial applications and can be customised to fit your business needs.

Benefits and Differentiation

> Reliability, adaptability, availability, quality and performance.
> Experience and expertise through full system solution.
> Consulting and long-term service approach, and in-house research and development.
> More than 2,500 systems output capacity per year.

Highlighted Offer: EcoStruxure Substation Operation

EcoStruxure Substation Automation is the solution to monitor, manage and forecast performance of assets for Maximising energy availability with a system that complies to IEC 61850.

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> Energy made visible and traceable everywhere with centralised monitoring, control & power management
> Ensured uptime of critical applications with generator management, steam management & load shedding
> Savings in OPEX & CAPEX, reduced need for spare parts through smarter use of assets and simulation tools
> Scalable and seamless integration of entire ED and control system

  • Gutor Industrial UPS for Oil & Gas

    Gutor is a Schneider Electric entity specialised in manufacturing heavy - industrial UPS solutions. With more than 50 years of experience in delivering UPS for Oil and Gas applications, Gutor UPS solutions make your energy safe, efficient and reliable.
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Blog

A look Ahead: What’s New for OffShore Oil and Gas UPS Solutions. Integrating an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) with the right capabilities in the emergency power network on a platform ensures that the low voltage network and the devices that depend upon it continue to function.
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