Customer Success Story: Badger Midstream
Customer Company Size
Mid-size Company
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- ICONICS’ GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA suite
- WebHMI™
- MobileHMI™
Tech Stack
- DeltaV DCS control
- Allen Bradley controllers
- Emerson OPC Server
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries
- Oil & Gas
Applicable Functions
- Process Manufacturing
Use Cases
- Process Control & Optimization
- Remote Asset Management
Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Badger Midstream (www.badgermidstream.com), located in Houston, Texas, is a natural gas/natural gas liquids transportation, gathering and processing midstream company created to acquire and exploit midstream assets in the natural gas energy sector. It was found to significantly improve the midstream value chain by working with customers (producers, operators, pipelines, end users and other midstream companies) to determine needs and provide real, creative, cost-effective, technical, results-oriented solutions. The company's Grey Badger site in Panhandle, Texas is a cryogenic gas processing and treatment plant with an initial capacity of 25,000 Mcf/d. It has four miles of steel NGL pipeline and 4.5 miles of 8’ steel high pressure residue pipeline. The plant is an ultra-high recovery cryo plant with ethane rejection capability, amine treating, nitrogen rejection, helium recovery, and condensate stabilization.
The Challenge
Badger Midstream’s Grey Badger site in Panhandle, Texas is a cryogenic gas processing and treatment plant. The company sought an HMI/SCADA solution to control all the processes of the Grey Badger gas plant including plant metering, compression monitoring, tank/pump/valve control, and the monitoring and control of 105 proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control loops. The new solution would replace an existing system based on a combination of two competitor products due to lack of support of their installed product versions and comparatively high costs of upgrades and yearly/ ongoing maintenance charges. Understandably, Badger wanted their new solution to be more cost-effective and easier to maintain. The selected HMI/SCADA would need to integrate with the plant’s DeltaV DCS control, Allen Bradley controllers, Emerson OPC Server, and various electronic flow meter (EFM) remote terminal units (RTUs), as well as with various plant equipment including heaters, dehydrators, vapor recovery units, separators, heat exchanges and more.
The Solution
Badger Midstream, working with system integrator, SOAP Engineering (www.soapeng.com), selected ICONICS’ GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA suite, including WebHMI™ Web-based real-time automation software, as well as the MobileHMI™ data mobility suite. The new ICONICS software now helps to provide full plant control and metering of over 8,000 physical I/O points. Associated process displays and faceplates were streamlined, providing enhanced process clarity and control to operators compared to the former system. In addition, multiple new features were gained, such as remote monitoring, mobile displays and notifications.
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