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Wireless Solutions for Oil and Gas
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Wireless solutions for upstream and downstream applications Visit the website to learn more about Eaton wireless and wired solutions Wireless control infrastructure for productivity and safety gains in oil and gas applications

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Comprehensive wireless solutions for oil and gas applications Adoption of wireless by the oil and gas industry is fueled by the need for lower infrastructure costs, new government regulations and a demand for improved operational efficiency. 2 The oil and gas industry presents highly demanding environments with unique and challenging communications needs. For more than 30 years, oil and gas companies have relied on Eaton wireless solutions for monitoring, control and networking of critical production assets and operational activities. Eaton products and solutions are used throughout the...

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Ensure your longdistance operations stay connected in the toughest environments Oil and gas companies rely on Eaton automation and control technologies to monitor and manage various operational activities, including leak detection, cathodic protection, flow measurement, wellhead control and environmental monitoring. Well owners, rig operators, shallow gas producers and exploration companies are using wireless to increase productivity, reduce costs and improve safety. Wireless benefits • ong range: Current frequencies allow for L 20–50 km LoS between clients • igh speed: Up to 50 Mbps...

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Wireless is essential for managing oil and gas assets and operations Wireless networking—infrastructure, monitoring and solutions Owners and operators of oil fields and offshore rigs face constant challenges to asset productivity and operational efficiency. Wireless networking infrastructure is the facilitator to provide increased safety and productivity in environmentally challenging applications. Wireless flow, pressure, level, temperature and valve position monitoring are used to streamline pipeline operation and storage while increasing safety and regulatory compliance. Wireless...

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Endless possibilities without wires Emissions monitoring and regulatory compliance reporting Vibration and motor performance monitoring Video surveillance mobile equipment and personnel tracking Gateway interconnection of legacy plcs Eye wash and safety shower deployment notifications GSM/GPRS quadband cellular communications Gas leak detection and remote cathodic protection monitoring Long haul Ethernet and serial data transfer Tank farm level and custody transfer monitoring Remote field device monitoring and control (pumps/ motors/valves) Network management system “Networking technologies...

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Solutions delivered Improved productivity, reduced costs and increased safety with wireless Fuel interface detection At every opportunity, Magellan is using ELPRO radios to replace leased lines and other brands of wireless products, at both new and existing IFD sites. Magellan Midstream Partners owns the longest refined petroleum products pipeline system in the U.S. Magellan transports a variety of products, such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, to terminals, including some they own. Generally, the same pipeline will transport multiple products. For example, after gasoline has entered the...

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Pipeline monitoring and control The probable causes of pipeline failures are corrosion and leakage. An operator of a long oil pipeline was trying to prevent pipeline failures and possible litigation. Undetected failures of the protection system can lead to expensive corrosion and leaks. A solution was required to provide monitoring and control capabilities across long distances. ELPRO single-I/O wireless transmitters were implemented to monitor the performance of a cathodic protection system that actively suppresses pipeline corrosion by injecting electrical currents into the pipeline....

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Proven wellhead monitoring solutions Variable oil wellhead monitoring Proven solution The cost benefits of wireless and the reliability of wired networks PEMEX, the Mexican stateowned petroleum company, needed a secure and reliable solution to connect numerous WirelessHART field devices from remote oil wellhead sites over long distances to their control system. Monitoring temperature and pressure variables in various fields of oil extraction across long distances was well beyond the capabilities of WirelessHART networks. Eaton deployed a 900 MHz long-range meshing Ethernet network to solve...

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Coal seam gas wellhead monitoring Monitor well sites A major coal seam gas supplier in Queensland, Australia, needed a wireless control infrastructure. The site could accommodate expansion to 12 million tons of LNG a year, subject to demand, and had extensions of QGC assets from several hundred wells to several thousand wells. ELPRO radios were selected and integrated into an RDC 500 standardized wellhead. The radio design uses a network consisting of wireless access point repeater sites. Each site collects gas flow, pressure, temperature and water flow and can shut down valves or pumps....

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End-to-end networking solutions Network connectivity and management Major oil refinery improves compressor station monitoring productivity from 5:1 to 50:1 “Given the skilled worker shortage, wireless lets us do more with less. ” Director of Process Engineering Control center Offshore monitoring Enterprise switch Gigabit ring recovery time <20 ms Tailing ponds Wellhead monitoring Separation plant

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Wireless product portfolio “900 MHz frequency hoppers from ELPRO resolved issues with fixed-frequency radios and leased lines at new and existing IFD sites. The solution provided a wireless alternative to expensive wiring. ” Magellan Midstream Partners Information: Monitor and optimize Control System Network Management System (NMS) Data Aquisition System Controller: Integrate and extend Managed Switches Unmanaged Switch Modem Quad Band Cellular Machine: More throughput and uptime Serial products Modem Quad Band Cellular Sensor: Smarter diagnostics. WirelessHART products

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