GAS DISTRIBUTION MONITORING SYSTEM – UAE

Key Features:

Oil and Gas form a great concern to many nations, being the main attribute in a county’s economic growth and welfare. Driven by this realization, governments are continuously seeking new Oil sources.
New as well as current Oil fields demand the utilization of the latest communication techniques and technologies, in order to set up a secure and reliable two-way communication channel for monitoring, as well as handling reports that require massive amounts of data and transmission power.

The Challenges

Petrofac needed a new solution to replace an old wireless radio system in a remote site, due to the loss of the LOS (Line of sight) in the urban extension process. The new system that needs to be installed must ensure reliable operation, and reduce data loss and failure problems that the old system suffered from.

The key features that the new system required:

• Provide secure and reliable communication
• A good range of operating temperature
• Modbus functionality to be compatible with the installed SCADA system

The Solution


After several visits, Xceltra decided to provide Petrofac with the M2M remote connectivity solution. This decision was made based on the following factors:

• The sites were extremely far and had good mobile network coverage
• Upgrading an old radio system, required additional installation costs as well as carrying out a new path study
• Using wired solutions was not an option

The designed M2M remote connectivity consisted of a Cellular (GPRS/Edge) Modbus Gateway with the following features:
• It achieved the desired speed
• A Firewall and SSH to ensure secure Communication using static IP SIM cards.
• Modbus serial-network gateway to be connected to the SCADA directly
• Temperature ranges: –40 to +75 °C

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