Assessment And Upgrading of SCADA System For Petroleum Pipelines

In this thesis, assessment and upgrading of SCADA system in Petroleum pipelines is proposed, the Pipeline of Petro energy Company (Sudan branch) was considering as a case study to show the advantage of SCADA system in Petroleum pipelines and how can Achieve steady state operation. The Pipeline Control System uses SCADA to provide information to the operator in the control centre. SCADA systems displays the data transmitted from all the sensors on the pipeline and pump stations to the video monitor and displays the parameters anddevices status at each location on the pipeline and pump stations. To make a project easy to understand we used the SCADA Software (wincc6) to simulate the pump station and make connection between a PLC software and SCADA software by using communication drive. the PLC provide information to the SCADA system about the animations of pump station equipments (pump,valve,motor..), by using the ladder program which downloaded in a PLC memory and the SCADA system displays these equipments and parameters.