Emerson’s Manuel Arroyo, Director, Oil & Gas Industry Programs kicks off a storage terminal safety podcast series by highlighting some of the risks & challenges and previews some of the technologies that can help these terminals improve safety, environmental compliance and terminal operations.
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Bulk Liquids Terminal Digital Transformations
Bulk liquids terminal operators have largely relied on a mix of automated and manual operations to perform their role in the liquids movement supply chain. This mixed mode of operations means there are holes or delays in data to aid in decision making, which makes the...
Terminal Automation Solutions Webinar
Update: A recorded version of this webinar is now available. Storage terminals are an integral part of the supply chain for hydrocarbon products to connect producers with consumers. With the vastness of new oil & gas production discoveries brought on by the shale...
Automating Tank Farm Systems and Work Practices
Have you ever stopped to consider the path and ownership transfers your car's gasoline or diesel took from the wellhead when it was still crude oil until you pumped it into your tank at the gas station? For the businesses involved in custody transfer process through...
Modernizing Tank Farm Measurements
One of the best applications for wireless instrumentation is in older tank farms. A Tank Storage magazine article, Modernising Old Tank Farms to Meet New Requirements shares why. The article's author opens: When most tank farms were built, automation was costly....
Improving Terminal Operations and Efficiency
Terminals are instrumental in the supply chain for holding moving oil and petrochemical products. An oil depot or tank farm: …typically has tankage, either above ground or underground, and gantries (framework) for the discharge of products into road tankers or other...
Modernizing Tank Gauging Systems via Emulation
Here in the US, we read many stories of oil tanks being filled to the brim with increased production from shale sources and federal law barring export. Whether in the US or anywhere across the globe, managing and reporting on the levels in these tanks require accurate...
Wireless Sensors for Remote Monitoring Applications
Wireless devices to measure process variables such as pressure, temperature, flow, and level have been around since the WirelessHART standard was adopted in 2007 and approved as an international standard, IEC 62591 in 2010. Given the intervening years since this...
Detecting Floating Roof Tilt
In an earlier post, Avoiding Dangerous Conditions through Tank Floating Roof Level Monitoring, we highlighted how technology can assist in providing early warning for abnormal situations such as roof tilt in tank farms. I received an email question: …so when the roof...
Terminal and Refinery Tank Gauging Systems
I wanted to share two videos from Emerson's Rosemount Tank Gauging team. Both feature Emerson's Ulf Johannesson. In the first, short 1:36 video, StocExpo 2013 - Tank Gauging Solutions, from the recent StocExpo 2013 conference, Ulf describes elements of the Raptor Tank...
Justifying an Integrated Offsites Operations Approach
Last week, we cautioned about the use of obsolescence in developing an automation modernization project justification. Sticking on the theme of justification, I received a copy of a presentation, Tank Farm and Terminal Automation: Developing a Business Case. Emerson's...
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