Invensys Process Systems Mexico Opens Gas Operating Center in Burgos Basin, Northern Gulf
Invensys Process Systems has inaugurated a Gas Production Operations Center at Reynosa City, Tamaulipas State, northeast of Mexico. The facility is part of an Invensys initiative to consolidate a Center of Excellence for Upstream Oil & Gas in Mexico to help its customer Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) improve asset utilization and availability in its facilities there. Earlier this year Invensys announced the opening of a similar facility to support PEMEX operations in the Marine, southeastern region of the Gulf.
The new center has all the resources necessary for Invensys to support PEMEX in the Burgos basin. The resources include technical services and training courses for operational assistance, systems and applications updates, expansions, logistics, and emergency stock for maintaining the largest SCADA system installed by Invensys in Latin America, monitoring 421 gas wells, 1 gas separation plant, 55 gathering stations, 10,643 Km of pipelines in 62 networks, 19 compressor stations, 10 tank farms with 162 storage tanks, and 12 gas selling terminals.
The short-term objective of this strategy is to provide uptime performance services and information availability to the Burgos SCADA system under a multi-year contract recently awarded for preventive and corrective maintenance and evolution of the existing infrastructure over time, including pipeline efficiency calculations; forecasting, gas nomination and billing; compressor station performance; gas quality tracking and control; leak detection and location; electronic flow measurement; gas chromatography; remote terminal units and field instrumentation.
The Center will also help sustain gas field expansion by applying scalable and effective low-cost solutions for well monitoring, hardware relocation and additional control to the Burgos asset.