Efficient Gas Pipeline Operations in Real-Time
Aveva Pipeline Management for gas operations enables pipeline companies to efficiently operate their pipelines in real-time, ensuring strong situational awareness for pipeline controllers. By maintaining the seamless flow of product through the pipeline while logging all necessary information for business and regulatory purposes, gas gathering, transportation, and distribution companies can guarantee accurate volume and quality measurement of gas to the end users. This accuracy is crucial for determining revenue at custody transfer points.
Key Features of Aveva Pipeline Management
Aveva's solution helps calculate and summarize real-time flow measurements from the SCADA system, optimizing operations and ensuring pipeline integrity. It allows for the measurement of flow and quality in real-time, facilitating quick business responsiveness. The system also calculates line pack in real-time, adding to the measurement history for comprehensive operational commodity management. Additionally, the software monitors and optimizes the performance of compression facilities, such as centrifugal compressor units, to lower operating expenses.
Gas Day Advisor for Efficient Operations
Aveva's Gas Day Advisor assists in developing weather-dependent gas demand forecasts based on historical data and weather information for the next gas day and future days. By combining these forecasts with actual flow data, operators can efficiently manage customer deliveries without encountering flow deficits or surpluses at the end of the day. This optimization ensures smooth operations.
Additional Products and Support
In addition to Pipeline Operations for Gas, Aveva offers a Pipeline Training Simulator to train operators on normal and abnormal conditions, Pipeline Operations for Liquids for efficient control room operations, and Enterprise SCADA software for oil and gas pipeline management. These products provide comprehensive solutions for the management and optimization of pipeline operations.