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Customer Success Story: Transneft Russian Pipeline

Customer Company Size

Large Corporate

Region

Europe
Asia

Country

Russia

Product

ICONICS GENESIS32
GraphWorX32
TrendWorX32
AlarmWorX32

Tech Stack

Microsoft Windows NT
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
TCP/IP

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Productivity Improvements
Cost Savings

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Applicable Industries

Oil & Gas

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation
Maintenance

Use Cases

Remote Asset Management
Leakage & Flood Monitoring

Services

System Integration

About The Customer

Transneft is a joint stock Russian Oil transport company and is Russia’s largest oil pipeline company. It manages the world’s largest oil pipeline that extends from Siberia to the Baltics, and encompasses over 48,000 miles (80,000 km) of oil pipes. The pipeline transports 420 million tons of oil a year through severe environments. The installation project involved installing over 400 pumping stations and 1000 holding tanks in 101 locations supplying 35 refineries. Transneft is responsible for transporting 99.5% of all the oil used in Russia. The system supplies 35 different refineries with their daily crude oil and provides both Europe and China with oil products.

The Challenge

Transneft, Russia’s largest oil pipeline company, manages the world’s largest oil pipeline that extends over 48,000 miles from Siberia to the Baltics. The pipeline transports 420 million tons of oil a year through severe environments. The installation project involved installing over 400 pumping stations and 1000 holding tanks in 101 locations supplying 35 refineries. The challenge was to monitor and control this extensive pipeline system, which is responsible for transporting 99.5% of all the oil used in Russia. The system supplies 35 different refineries with their daily crude oil and provides both Europe and China with oil products. The pipeline system required a centralized dispatch and SCADA system to monitor the 400 pumping stations and 1,000 large oil tanks in 100 different tank farms.

The Solution

Transneft selected ICONICS GENESIS32™ with GraphWorX™32, TrendWorX™32 and AlarmWorX™32. This suite of software tools is running on over 500 networked PCs, monitoring over 800,000 tags. This is the world’s largest PC-based SCADA and dispatch system. The application has won Microsoft’s “Windows World Open” Award. The ICONICS GENESIS32 system was installed by the systems integration company, Elesy. The software system monitors the operation of 2,100 PLCs, including 400 pumping stations with 1,000 tanks in 101 tank farms. Transneft uses TCP/IP with satellite links to collect and transmit status data. The system is using ICONICS GENESIS32 HMI/ SCADA software, off the shelf PC automation technology, 2000 PLCs and Microsoft Windows NT, 2000 and XP operating systems. GENESIS32 is Web-enabled and its thin client/server architecture integrates seamlessly with Intranet- and Internet-based large network applications.

Operational Impact

The primary benefit that Transneft has had with the installed ICONICS GENESIS32 system is the substantial reduction in time in leakage detection and the dispatching of a repair solution.
The system is able to monitor and control the Trans-Russian Oil Pipeline System effectively.
The system is able to monitor the 400 pumping stations, as well as 1,000 large oil tanks in 100 different tank farms along the extensive pipeline.

Quantitative Benefit

The system is running on over 500 networked PCs, monitoring over 800,000 tags.
The system monitors the operation of 2,100 PLCs, including 400 pumping stations with 1,000 tanks in 101 tank farms.