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              Success Story: Oil & Gas

              Tengiz Chevroil (Kazakhstan - Central Asia Countries)

              Complete site power management & control

              Success Story: Oil & Gas 100% redundancy, meaning more than 50% availability improvement. />100% redundancy, meaning more than 50% availability improvement.

               

              I. CUSTOMER ENVIRONMENT / PROJECT CONTEXT

               

              Customer profile:

              • Tengiz is 1 of the most important O&G fields in Kazakhstan: 285 000 barrels a day of high quality production.
              • The field reserves are estimated at between 6 and 9 billion barrels, and production should reach 750 000 barrels a day by 2010, corresponding to an increase of 163% over 7 years.
               

              Customer objective and constraints:

              • The project aimed to propose an Electrical Distribution system for new sites intended to increase the existing gas production.
              • In such a project, the availability of the electrical power from the HV network connection point to the LV load is the main concern.
               

              II. SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION

               

              Implementation methodology (main phases):

               

              Key success factors

              • Ability to propose an engineered offer with:

                      > A totally monitored and controlled system

                      > A totally redundant architecture (in red in the diagram)

              • The experience of Schneider Electric in the Oil & Gas market to manage:

                      > The technical and commercial requirements

                      > Special needs (Russian GOST certification for ED)

                      > Close relations with the EPC

              •  Perfect collaboration of the teams and close relations to co-ordinate technical and commercial strategies.
              •  Effective determination of customer needs and transfer of information to the technical teams to ensure an optimum solution.
              •  The experience of the Schneider Electric worldwide network.
              •  The market approach of the Schneider Electric Engineering division as well as its knowledge of the complete Schneider Electric catalogue that made it possible to offer a global solution with communication capabilities.
               

              Duration:

              3 years: 2003 - 2006

               

              Solution overview (services, products, systems, architectures...):

               

              III. RESULTS / ACHIEVEMENT

               

              Customer benefits:

              • A simple, user-friendly system, specially designed to fulfill EMCS and PMS functions.
              • "Open" system, offering multiple SCADA possibilities for interfacing with all HV, MV and LV equipment and "process" control systems.
              • Upgradeable solutions with adaptable size and complexity.
               

              Customer testimonies (Verbatim):

               "It is a turnkey solution, perfectly tailored to our needs".

               

              Schneider Electric differentiating values VS competitors:

              • Deep understanding of energy monitoring & control in O&G.
              • Solution and service provided, with 30000 hours of development work
              • Strategic partnership with Chevron
              • Capacity to invest
               
               
               
               
               

              Solution breakdown

              Main products & systems: