ABB wins fast track automation project for De Ruyter platform
  by: OilOnline
  Monday, January 24, 2005

ABB has been awarded a project worth over £2.5 million to provide the entire automation and instrumentation suite for Petro-Canada’s De Ruyter oil and gas production platform. The first new build offshore platform to use Foundation Fieldbus, it will also use ABB’s new safety controller (SIS).

De Ruyter is a new production platform that will be built in the Dutch North Sea some 60 km offshore from The Hague. Scheduled to come on stream mid 2006, ABB will deliver the automation and instrumentation systems in August 2005.

Awarded against a competitive tender, ABB won the contract for its ability to produce the whole system as a single package. ABB will be working closely with Petro-Canada on the design as an integrated team.

Based on the 800xA extended automation system, ABB’s scope of supply includes a control and safety system based on the ABB AC800M and AC800Hi Safety Controllers (SIS), Foundation Fieldbus for process control and Hart for other control and safety I/O.

As a composite solution ABB will also supply all field instrumentation, including pressure and temperature transmitters, flow elements, level transmitters and magnetic flow meters, many of which will be ABB’s own Foundation Fieldbus and Hart compliant devices.

For this project, ABB has started immediately after award. Key requirements of the work are guaranteed performance and the ability to control changes in design.

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