Industry solutions Oil and Gas

Oil & Gas Industry Company EPLAN Software & Service develops CAE solutions and advises companies on how to optimise their engineering processes. Customers profit from increased efficiency in the product development process through standardised procedures, automated sequences and consistent workflows. EPLAN provides custom-made concepts for the system implementation, installation and smooth integration into the IT / PLM system landscape, based on standard engineering solutions. The service

Innovative and practical solutions for interfacing with the Oil & Gas Industry Sophisticated challenge

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Regardless of segment, companies within the oil and gas industry share certain characteristics: large, complex configurations of equipment that create complicated processes and large amounts of data. These procedures therefore require an extensive number of instruments to control and monitor plant or drilling operations. Consequently, creating a high demand for efficient engineering tools and distributed control systems, particularly as special data quality requirements and data consistency are essential for effective and safe plant or drilling operations.

Addressing sustainability issues ƒ Reuseability of designs, the flexibility to implement late ƒ engineering changes Mitigating risks and maximising safety ƒ Updated and accurate documentation to meet the ƒ regulatory and reporting requirements in this market in order to improve performance, reduce penalities and enhance operational effectiveness – thus maximising profitability Optimal preparation of industry transactions and ƒ

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Ultimately automation contractors, who are supplying equipment, engineering, construction and operating

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Requirements for the future

Managing competing new technologies

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With rising global energy demand, the oil and gas industry

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has a wide range of challenges and opportunities across the upstream, midstream, downstream and oilfield services

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sectors. The need to navigate through the changing regulatory environment, manage risks and optimise performance

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is extremely important. Despite the price cycles, energy companies know that they have to focus on efficiency when

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it comes to achieving growth and maintaining a long-term competitive edge. Companies also have to focus on

investment security.

controlling costs, improving controls and managing risks.

There are many new technological advancements challenging the oil and gas sector, from the new exploration and production methods for alternative power generation, to the electrification of energy delivery. The financial side of the industry is being impacted by cost containment, efficiency reduction, unfamiliar environments and safety risks. How do we solve these problems? Optimisation and reuse of your designs, high levels of standardisation in engineering, flexibility in changes within the project, and improved co-operation with other departments. The result is that companies stay ahead

consolidation, leading to larger, more complex organisations with globally expanding operations and greater challenges

of the competition with reduced costs, clearer documentation, and overall improved results within the company. EPLAN solutions ensures consistency across key applications during processes, planning, management and monitoring, and Electrical & Instrumentation (E&I) stages. Under the motto “EPLAN – efficient engineering.”, EPLAN Software and Service provides innovative and practical solutions for workflow optimisation and risk management in the oil and gas industries. With interfaces into your ERP and PDM systems, we use our existing IT infrastructure to produce a seamless workflow throughout the company.

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“EPLAN – efficient engineering.” – the company motto emphasises the competence of optimised, efficient processes, which help customers to be competitive in the long term.

The matching solutions for all roles and functions Whether you are an owner or operator conducting maintenance, a general contractor/EPC responsible for FEED or basic engineering, a subcontractor/MAC undertaking E&I or detailed engineering, or a component vendor, EPLAN has a unique software solution for you. The workflow for oil & gas benefits greatly from EPLAN’s interdisciplinary software – from electrical and fluid power engineering, process and instrumentation diagrams, PLC programming, field system cabling and 3D wire harnessing to electrical cabinet design and manufacturing. Companies can benefit from the seamless, enterprise-wide workflow via interfaces to ERP and PDM systems and process automation expert systems – without compromising support for the process design of your plant management software.

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EPLAN Platform – centralised database The oil and gas industry is dealing with complex data patterns, multiple data within multiple systems, and is in great need of a highly automated, accurate and consistent solution. The EPLAN Platform provides this with its integrated engineering systems, from control planning and process engineering to electric configurations. In addition the connection between the ERP and PDM systems is an invaluable asset to this industry as consistent data within a centralised database ensures lower costs and major timesavings.

Electrical engineering Field cabling ƒ Energy supply ƒ Electric actuator ƒ PLC control ƒ (digital/analogue) Safety technology ƒ

Measurement and control technology I&C engineering ƒ Process automation ƒ Instrumentation ƒ Sensor systems/ ƒ

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Fluid power engineering Motion and drive concepts ƒ Hydraulics ƒ Lubrication ƒ

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3D mounting layout ƒ Control cabinets ƒ Switchgear ƒ Flexible power distributions ƒ Order information ƒ Production drawings ƒ NC machine control ƒ

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Exemplary workflow 1 Engineering competence in the oil and gas industry has a name: EPLAN Software & Service

Advantages that will impress you: Uniform bill of materials ƒ for each engineering discipline Standardised, current and ƒ correct data Combination of component ƒ management and revision management Intelligent documentation ƒ over the entire life cycle High level of transparency ƒ Time savings throughout ƒ the entire process – from engineering to maintenance

Efficient material management

Standardisation is the foundation EPLAN PPE is used to install a process control strategy and accelerate the creation of Process and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID). Standardising P&ID development with EPLAN PPE results in vastly improved internal coordination, and makes it possible to get quicker approvals for P&ID layouts, which in turn has added procurement benefits. You can therefore order the main components more quickly. Because you have an overview of the material requirements much sooner, you can shorten the turnaround time considerably.

Consistency is the key and speed and accuracy are of the essence

Consistent and centralised solution for engineering Whether providing advanced solutions to help improve performance, solve complex challenges or making oil fields more productive – consistency is always the key. Integrated component management systems are able to identify and order the correct materials as early as possible. This way, orders can be rapidly executed, with less risk of design or purchasing errors. Using EPLAN bi-directional functionality with a PDM link, all design work can be done in-house and you have the ability to create a centralised component database within a PDM system. PROCESS TECHNOLOGY Fluid power P&ID construct pneumatics describe processes

Centralising component management has many customer benefits. Among these is the ability to give accurate project quotes sooner, as well as to generate clear and complete documentation in a consistent format, whether it is the P&ID, the EIP list and bill of materials, or the comprehensive suite of documents that accompanies the completed job. Such standardised, high-quality documentation helps maintenance staff on a service call make the right diagnosis quickly to resolve problems as efficiently as possible.

Linking EPLAN, ERP and PDM saves time and minimises errors ENGINEERING PDM/ERP

Using an integrated system to correct errors and inconsistencies as early as possible, engineering departments can begin turning orders around more quickly, with a lower risk of design or purchasing errors. The connection between the ERP, PDM and EPLAN prevents miscommunication and unnecessary paper flows. This gives an overview of available parts and enables the use of a single bill of materials rather, than using separate

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ones for each engineering discipline. The use of a single BOM reduces ordering errors, assists purchasing to recognise and troubleshoot delays before they become serious.

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In the following, you will find exemplary workflows, which show practical solutions for successful plant engineering with EPLAN. Electrical engineering wire signals

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Consistent Projects EPLAN design process – leads to productivity gains

This can be achieved via:

With a tight integration throughout engineering design to process design give you the ability to take projects straight to the next level. As with any automation technology, correct data is extremely important. The benefit of this technology is time saved, reduced material costs, increased quality, faster turnaround, standardisations of production processes, and most importantly, the production of high-performance products, while delivering high-value services. You can boost productivity further by means of seamless integration of fluid power, electronic and control engineering.

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Within EPLAN, we are able to concentrate on our engineering work, and EPLAN looks after the consistent management of project data. This enables us to quickly create power solutions for our customers, such as high-quality engines or turbines and produce standardised plant documentation.

EPLAN can integrate with plant information management systems such as SCADA and SQL. As-built documentation ƒ EPCs enjoy access to real-time documentation and redlining, increasing efficiency and improving feedback times. Gain competitive bids ƒ Our high-quality and error-free design software is used by

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project leaders and management in order to minimise project risk and acquire more competitive bids. Save man hours ƒ Engineering managers benefit from the speed and reduction of reworking that comes with implementing the EPLAN Platform. Greater flexibly enables them to modify designs at short notice, even in the final stages of a project. In addition, variance management with EPLAN Engineering Center enables their teams to shorten the time between FEED (Front End Engineering Design) and detailed design.

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Successful risk management Successful engineering with integrated processes These procedures therefore require an extensive number of instruments to control and monitor plants or drilling operations. Consequently, there is a high demand for efficient engineering tools and distributed control systems within electrical engineering, because special data quality requirements and data consistency are essential for effective plant or drilling operations. Interfacing with your main automation contractors (MAC), who are typically responsible for equipment, engineering, construction and operating services, are ensured high-quality information and accuracy while engineering changes are automatically accounted for.

Risk management – the easy way Companies in the oil and gas sector must deal with their own unique set of risks, whether they are releated to technical aspects, documentation, internal processes or consistency issues. An effective risk management solution needs to offer solutions that are tailored, not only to the industry, but also to the specific company and the sectors in which it operates. By focusing on the topics listed below, risk management can be easily achieved with EPLAN. High-quality documentation ƒ With comprehensive and individually configurable check runs, you determine how strictly EPLAN monitors the quality level of your documentation. In this way, the downstream stages of the process are provided with all of the required information from the engineering itself – continuous product creation through to manufacturing, installation, commissioning, servicing and maintenance.

External documents Easy integration ƒ EPLAN integrates easily with other software platforms, be they ERP, PDM, MCAD, or plant engineering software, depending upon clients’ requirements. Simple implementation ƒ

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Expert EPLAN consultants analyse divisions, data, software, optimisation and workflows within companies engineering processes. Following this, our consultants are able to produce a strategy for product data management, risk management and any other related processes. Our focus is on integrating the PDM solution into the existing IT structure of your company, linking it to the EPLAN Platform and achieving the optimum integration for your industry.

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