ABB said that the project includes analysis, design, development, engineering, configuration, testing, supply and installation of four terminal automation systems based on the company’s T-MAC software integrated with System 800xA Extended Automation.
ABB’s terminal automation systems vertically integrate the myriad of networks, systems, devices and other data sources throughout terminal, so that petroleum and petrochemical customers can access information quickly and can manage their operations more effectively.
The terminal automation systems will connect to Petrom’s corporate enterprise resource planning system, and will also integrate various third-party systems and devices throughout the network of sites included in the pilot project, to give enterprise-wide access to and control of these operations.
At each site, the automation system will control the movement and track quantities of gasoline and other petroleum products from the pipeline, and to and from trucks, rail cars and ships. This project is part of Petrom and its parent company OMV’s ongoing effort to have a unified terminal automation solution across their installations in central and eastern Europe.
Petrom has an annual refining capacity of 8 million metric tons and owns 593 petrol filling stations in Romania.
