VISA -- A computer pipeline to real-time data
- El Paso Natural Gas Co., TX (United States)
During the past decade many changes have taken place in the natural gas industry, not the least of which is the way information (data) is acquired, moved, compiled, integrated and disseminated within organizations. At El Paso Natural Gas Company (EPNG) the Operations Control Department has been at the center of these changes. The Systems Section within Operations Control has been instrumental in developing the computer programs that acquire and store real-time operational data, and then make it available to not only the Gas Control function, but also to anyone else within the company who might require it and, to a limited degree, any supplier or purchaser of gas utilizing the El Paso pipeline. These computer programs which make up the VISA system are, in effect, the tools that help move the data that flows in the pipeline of information within the company. Their integration into this pipeline process is the topic of this paper.
- OSTI ID:
- 170180
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940113-; ISBN 0-7918-1188-3; TRN: IM9605%%199
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 17. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) energy-sources technology conference and exhibition (ETCE), New Orleans, LA (United States), 23-26 Jan 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Pipeline engineering, 1994. PD-Volume 60; Williams, B.S.; Flanders, B.; Ellul, I.; Shrake, B.; Stripling, T.; Zipp, K. [eds.]; PB: 86 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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