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Venezuelan plant completes instrument upgrade

Journal Article · · Oil and Gas Journal
OSTI ID:260677
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  1. Maraven S.A., Maracaibo (Venezuela)
The Lamarliquido LPG plant, offshore Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, has received a major upgrade to its control system after 25 years of pneumatic instrumentation. The plant is now operating fully remote from a new central control room with a maximum production of 5,500 b/d, expected to go to 6,600 b/d. The phases of the project included installation and integration of four control systems: distributed control system; fire prevention, detection, and control system; refrigeration process turbocompressor control system; and emergency shutdown system. The paper describes the 1960s vintage instrumentation, the modernization objectives and phases, the distributed control system, the fire control system, gas and fire detection, the turbocompressor system, emergency shutdown system, and plant shutdown logic.
OSTI ID:
260677
Journal Information:
Oil and Gas Journal, Journal Name: Oil and Gas Journal Journal Issue: 30 Vol. 94; ISSN 0030-1388; ISSN OIGJAV
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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