Wireless Opportunities and Challenges

1. Wireless Opportunities and Challenges

2. Presenter • Greg LaFramboise • Wireless Technology Lead • Chevron Energy Technology Company • Richmond, California • Employed by for Chevron 27 years with 20 years in upstream (oil producing and processing) operating units. • Chevron’s voting member to the ISA S100 Wireless Committee since 2005.

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7. On a more serious note . . .

8. Chevron’s Wireless Interest Offshore Oil and Gas Production Onshore Oil and Gas Production Refining Chemicals Marketing (Gas stations) Mining – Coal, Metals, Oil Sands

9. Opportunities • Monitoring of moving (mainly rotating) equipment • Extension of the Process Control Network to mobile operators • Monitoring of Equipment not originally instrumented both on a temporary and permanent basis • Extraction of higher level info from intelligent instruments not easily handled by the control system • Other applications that users will “find”

10. Challenges • Security – Chevron’s business is classified by Homeland Security as critical infrastructure • Needs to plug and play • Availability, Reliability • “Needs to Work” • Heavy Steel Environments/High Interference/Hazardous (Explosive) Areas

11. Heavy Steel Industrial Environment

12. Another Heavy Steel Industrial Environment

13. Challenges – cont’d • Educating internal Chevron customers on the various technologies. “A transmitter is a transmitter is a transmitter” does not apply to wireless devices. Education will help avoid misapplications or unrealistic expectations. • Chevron has a long history of wireless sensor devices . . . and a big graveyard. Most did not live up to expectations. Maybe it was too early; Maybe it was because there were no standards. • Performance of 2.4 GHz in outdoor, “real-world” environments.

14. Presenter • Two Wireless Standards Emerging • Wireless HART 7 – Approved, currently being implemented • ISA S100.11a – ISA Industrial Wireless Standard, complete in 2008 • Do we standardize on one? Do we have specific applications for both? How do we manage two different networks.

15. Classes of Service

16. Projects • Early ZigBee mesh test in El Segundo California Refinery • Mobile Operator – Gulf of Mexico offshore production; San Joaquin Valley, California, onshore production • Coal Mine, Kemmerer, Wyoming – Equipment monitoring, coal truck tracking, large geographic area. • El Segundo California Refinery - Relief valve monitoring

17. Projects – cont’d • Offshore Nigeria Production – remote platform sensor monitoring • San Joaquin Valley California – monitoring clusters of instruments over hundreds of feet in the oilfield • Richmond California Refinery Firewater System – distributed sensor around entire facility

18. Zapata Texas Pilot

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21. Offshore Nigeria

22. Offshore Nigeria

23. Richmond, California Refinery

24. Richmond, California Refinery

25. Richmond, California Refinery