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    Oil and gas IoT monitoring systems

    Industrial IoT Solutions

oil and gas

Preventing and detecting damage to essential infrastructure

Oil&gas sector is a crucial area where the IoT is playing a big part in changing the way companies monitor pipes.

Pipelines are an essential part of infrastructure across the world. Whether they are transporting oil and gas, water supplies or substances within chemical plants, they play a pivotal role in keeping the global economy healthy. But when pipelines fail, the results can be catastrophic, threatening both human lives, profits and the environment. Thankfully, innovative new smart monitoring systems are available which can minimize the risk of failure and ensure that piping remains in good condition, for as long as possible. These systems link into the rapidly expanding Internet of Things (IoT), which will play a key role in protecting pipelines in the future.

Pipelines monitoring systems are commonly composed of: sensors, data acquisition systems (data logger), data transfer systems, data management systems and data analysis.

Oil and gas Companies use various sensor systems to independently verify environmental and equipment conditions in their remote sites: they use for instance pressure, temperature, flow velocity, power failure, humidity sensors.
Parameters that can be monitored are water level, presence of corrosive gases, flow, general water quality, pressure, temperature, pipe deformation but the system can also be extended to other parameters like those for environmental monitoring (PM10, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and sulfur dioxide, CO2 for air quality.

Benefits

  • to easily find a plant fault and do maintenance efficiently through remote control

  • to automatize data reading and collection

  • to reduce maintenance and operations costs

  • to prevent leakage

  • to improve safety

Why using IoT for pipeline monitoring

The data collection, management and analysis through IoT provides multiple benefits like the reduced need to check pipelines onsite with, consequently, workers’ safety improvement and the possibility to focus more on environmental concerns and social issues.
Going into deeper details, with all this data, technicians can sense for example when water levels are reaching dangerous levels, thus helping to handle potential floods; or they will be able to prevent leaks, which both reduce profits, damage the environment and claim lives.
Through an Internet of Things-based remote sensing system, customers can be in control of what passes through water (or oil or gas) pipelines and drains, allowing them to “think” through improvements thanks to all the information they can collect.

IoT technology is ideal for this type of applications, where large volumes of digital data must be managed and it possible to access, collect, and analyze data real time and remotely, i.e., without being present on site to perform field inspections with human workers in the loop.

Oil&Gas industry as pioneer of IoT

These wireless sensing systems provide many benefits for oil & gas, chemical or water companies. For one thing, they allow engineers to “predict” failures before anything goes wrong. They can know instantly when pressure or temperature levels spike, and keep an eye on structural integrity. They also reduce the need for physical checks and infrastructure, lowering costs. Many pipelines are located in inhospitable locations, but with remote systems, they can be monitored safely and effectively at a distance.

The oil and gas industry was one of the earliest adopters of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, and for the good reason that especially energy suppliers leverage many of the same IoT components used in other industries, including remote sensors, machine learning, and the cloud. When connected and combined with business processes such as alerts, IoT in oil and gas systems allows operators to monitor systems and react securely and in real time even to production problems that arise, as well as monitor status infrastructure.

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