Jack Buechler

Regional Vice-President of Sales

Oil and Gas Communications Europe
May 12th -13th
Aberdeen, Scotland
 SCADA Application
Saudi Aramco - Saudi Arabia
 Some key facts and figures
Saudi Aramco – Saudi Arabian American Oil Company

•Largest oil company in the world by revenue – US $233Billion *

•Annual oil production – 8.5 Billion barrels *
•Reserves of over 260 Billion barrels *
•Largest hydrocarbon network
•Largest oil field - Ghawar
•Largest off shore oil field – Safaniyah
•2001 – First Gas field for Saudi Aramco
•Largest owned tanker fleet
•More than 54,000 employees

*Petroleum Weekly ranked number #1 2009

 SCADA systems
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

•Today

•Tomorrow

•Benefits of SCADA by satellite for Aramco

 SCADA System
Hardware
Field level instrumentation

Remote Terminal Units (RTU)

Human Interface Machine (HIM)

Master Terminal Unit (MTU)

• - Gathering information from RTUs, Monitoring and processing
• - Sending necessary control actions to RTUs.

Communication System

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 Components of SCADA
Field Instrumentation System
• Interfaced to equipment being controlled and monitored
• Convert physical parameters to electrical signal

• Typical Field Instrumentation:

• Switched & Pushbuttons

• Flow Meters
• Level Transducers
• Temperature Transmitters
• Pressure Switches
• Gas Detector
• Control Relays
• Actuators and Drives
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 Components of SCADA
System
•RTU (Remote Terminal Unit)

• PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) or single board computer

• Deployed in the filed
• Gathering Data from field instrumentation
• Control the filed devices
• Provide data to control station

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 Components of SCADA
System
Human Interface Machine (HIM)

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 Components of SCADA
System
Central Control Station
• Master units in SCADA system
• Larger computers (Servers & workstations) running various software
• Provide Human Machine Interface (HMI) for operators
• Accept, process and store data from RTU
• Regulate the controlled system
• Distribute data to other systems

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 Basic SCADA System
Typical wired
or New
wireless
connections

Communication
Network

Process & Control

RTU Center
Typical Serial or
new TCP/IP Interfaces

Field Instrumentation
 SCADA systems today
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

Methods of remote communications

•Manual intervention
•Inmarsat – low data rata
•PMR radio
•Fibre-connected systems
 SCADA VSAT Terminal today
 512 kb/s  Small & Light
0.76 meters  Low Price

Autonomous Outdoor Terminal

Ethernet RTU

AC/DC
Power
Outdoor/Indoor VSAT Terminal
 The DVB-RCS Standard
• A short history
– Digital Video Broadcast over Satellite (DVB-S) established by ETSI (European
Telecommunication Standards Institute) DVB committee in 1993 for one way digital
satellite transmission
– DVB-RCS (Return Channel via Satellite) established by ETSI’s DVB committee via
specification EN 301 790 for interoperable VSAT networking in 2001: worlds first
two-way satellite standard!!!
• Several companies have announced recently that they supply DVB-RCS
equipment, including industry giants such as Alcatel, Gilat and Viasat.
• Since its inception by ETSI in 2001 and its fi rst implementation by SES, DVB-
RCS has been deployed in every region of the world.
• There are approximately 100 fully compliant DVB-RCS systems worldwide
and many more that are DVB-RCS like or claim to be upgradeable by
software to full DVB-RCS compliance.
• DVB-RCS equipment is now price competitive with legacy VSATs.
• The ETSI DVB committee continue to update the specifi cations

http://satlabs.org
 VSAT SCADA
Solution
• Maximize existing VSAT systems for SCADA applications

• Configure VSAT equipment with 256Kbps Return carriers

• At 256Kbps, the VSAT system will provide 99.9% availability

 2 Way SCADA VSAT System
Architecture
TDM Downstream Carrier = Forward Carrier
Total transponder bandwidth

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Carriers
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TCP/IP

Data Server Work Stations

CADA VSAT Terminal Wellhead Site sites Well Remote Monitoring Center
 VSAT SCADA
Solution
Example
• 3000 terminals, & 4 RCS carriers with 256kbps
• 3000/256 = 12 cycles required to poll the 3000 RTUs

• The VSAT terminal requires ~10 seconds to respond to RTU

• RTU response time is ~10 seconds

• The polling response time is 20 seconds per poll
• With 12 cycles of continuous polling, status of 3000
RTUs is updated within 4 minutes
VSAT SCADA System 3000 Wellheads polled within
4 minutes
Serving Wellheads

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Control Center
SCADA Data
MTU Network Existing VSAT
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Gateway
 Conclusions
In the words of Saudi Aramco
“VSAT technology is the cost effective solution & key factor
to Oil and Gas wideband & narrowband operations”

•SCADA is a very fast growing technology - Not only in Oil

and Gas upstream but also video, other energy sectors,
telecoms markets

•Existing wideband VSAT networks can be maximized to

support other low data applications like SCADA
Jack Buechler
Regional Vice-
President
T: +44 207 0437809
M: +44 7946 002001
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A
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E: jack.buechler@advantechwireless.com
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