Midstream Oil and Gas Startup Secures Flow Control

石油和天然气从点到点的转移已成为严重的业务，并且更加精确，并且更加精确。中游服务供应商正在加强比赛以满足不断增长的需求。Pinnacle Midstream, a young Houston-based supplier of storage and processing services, has turned toBedrock Automation现在帮助满足其控制需求，并计划将来扩展。

基岩控制系统将用作顶峰的原油收据和交付点的自动化平台，通过Pinnacle的加工设施，以及炼油厂和托运人，从合作伙伴那里协调产品流量。Pinnacle选择了基岩系统的可扩展性，易于工程，坚固性，成本效率和内在网络安全。

“We are expanding to meet the growing need for midstream services and need a secure way to centralize control of flow amongst our facilities,” said Mike Hillerman, vice president of engineering and operations for Pinnacle. “The Bedrock system provides an economical solution in a small, easy-to-implement system that can coordinate edge control today while also scaling easily and economically to the full DCS functionality we expect to need in the future. We also liked the rugged Bedrock housing, which will resist the dust that gets into everything around here.”

Pinnacle was formed a couple years ago to meet the oil and gas industry’s need for efficient, secure midstream management. The company provides a suite of services, including measurement, storage, compression, treatment, processing and dehydration services to help partners ready products for market. Fast movement of product from production wells, through facilities and on to the market is key to profitability.

Meers Engineering，位于德克萨斯州阿比林的系统集成商正在实施Inductive Automation’s Ignition SCADA platform for Pinnacle, and recommended the Bedrock system as a way to meet its pipeline control and safety needs today, and scale easily over time.

梅尔斯工程校长戴维·伊巴赫（David Ibach）评论说：“基岩系统非常适合启动。”“它提供的性能超过了所有主流系统，并且随着用户业务的增长，可以轻松扩展。它使用最先进的电子产品，旨在工作多年。它的免费IEC 61131-3兼容的工程工具也节省了安装过程中的大量编码时间，并将继续降低未来多年的维护成本。”

当今的顶峰实现将带有10个I/O模块的基岩引脚背板填充，包括10通道通用I/O模块和一个五通道以太网模块。通用I/O模块连接到控制每个储罐处的电场计算机，以太网I/O与边缘设备和应用程序连接到挖掘数据以进行后续计划和操作改进。以太网模块还可以同时对无线传感器进行投票，并支持对以太网（POE）的功率，从而通过消除需要向某些设备运行额外的接线来进一步简化安装。

Bedrock control modules also integrate switching and other functionality usually relegated to external devices, further reducing wiring and installation costs. This also makes it very easy to scale up in backplane unit increments of five, 10 or 20.

With the first Bedrock system—which went online early this year—exceeding expectations—Pinnacle is evaluating additional deployments in the U.S. and potentially globally.