Venezuelan Consortium Awards $2.3M PlantScape SCADA Project to Honeywell Venezuela.PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 1998--SIMCO, the Venezuelan consortium of companies, has awarded Honeywell a $2.3M project for PlantScape SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) A process control application that collects data from sensors and machines on the shop floor or in remote locations and sends them to a central computer for management and control. to be installed at PDVSA PDVSA Petroleos De Venezuela, SA E&P, Petroleos de Venezuela Oil production unit, the country's national oil company. PlantScape SCADA is a perfect oil and gas solution for SIMCO SIMCO Stock Inventory Management and Customer Ordering , which will draw water from Lake Maracaibo Lake Maracaibo is a large brackish lake in Venezuela at . It is connected to the Gulf of Venezuela by a 55km strait on the northern edge of the lake, and fed by numerous rivers, the largest being the Catatumbo River. , treat it and inject it into the PDVSA's oil reservoir An oil reservoir, petroleum system or petroleum reservoir is often thought of as being an underground "lake" of oil, but it is actually composed of hydrocarbons contained in porous rock formations. . PlantScape SCADA, connected to Allen-Bradley PLCs and ITT ITT Initial Teacher Training (UK) ITT I Think That ITT Invitation To Tender ITT Individual Time Trial (professional cycling) ITT Intention-To-Treat ITT In This Thread (forums) Barton Flow computers will provide the interface and control. The water is currently being injected through 90 wells and will expand significantly in the future. PlantScape SCADA is well-suited to communicate with systems and devices, and to control processes at remote sites, such as offshore platforms and pipelines via fiber optic cable Noun 1. fiber optic cable - a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light fibre optic cable transmission line, cable, line - a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power , satellite, leased lines, radio and microwave signals. It is specifically tailored to meet the complex control needs of oil and gas and other industries that require remote communications and device control. SIMCO is a consortium between Wood, an oil and gas company, VEPICA, an engineering Company, and the construction company, Camsa. Honeywell Industrial Automation and Control is the leading worldwide supplier of industrial automation solutions. Honeywell is a global controls company focused on creating value through technology that enhances comfort, improves productivity, saves energy, protects the environment and increases safety. The company services customers worldwide in the homes and building, industrial, and aviation and space markets. Honeywell employs 57,500 people in 95 countries, and had 1997 sales of $8 billion. For additional information, write to: Honeywell Inquiries, 2800 Wells Branch Parkway, Austin, Texas 78728. Inquiries also may be made to Honeywell by phone, 1-800-288-7491, or by fax, 512-244-9222 or via our world wide web site: www.iac.honeywell.com. (TM)PlantScape is a U.S. trademark of Honeywell, Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners |
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