Touchless™ Monitoring Solutions for Oil & Gas

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Achieve Greater Visibility & Control

Oil & gas facilities are large, complex, and challenging environments. Flammable gas, corrosive materials, and extreme weather conditions make it difficult and expensive to conduct physical inspections to monitor the health and performance of high-value industrial assets.

Touchless™ Monitoring Solutions from Systems With Intelligence are designed and built for oil & gas applications across the entire production process. Explosion-proof thermal, visual, and optical gas imaging (OGI) sensors provide operators with a continuous, 24/7 view of critical equipment and processes, while advanced software and analytics make it possible to detect, verify, and diagnose issues remotely.

With better visibility and control, oil & gas companies can reduce operations & maintenance costs, improve safety, optimize performance, and mitigate the risk of catastrophic failure.

Visualize the Entire Production Process

Upstream

  • Intelligent Thermography
  • Leak Detection and Repair
  • Flare Stack Monitoring
  • Flame Detection
  • Safety Monitoring & Surveillance
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Midstream

  • Intelligent Thermography
  • Oil Tank Leveling & Spill Detection
  • Flame Detection
  • Safety Monitoring & Surveillance
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Downstream

  • Intelligent Thermography
  • Flare Stack Monitoring
  • Flame Detection
  • Safety Monitoring & Surveillance
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Visualize the Entire Production Process

Improved Safe
Reduced Emissions
Fewer Breakdowns
Lower O&M Costs
Enhanced Performance

Monitoring Assets, Personnel,
and the Environment

Asset Monitoring and Leak Detection

Monitor the health and performance of high-value assets such as critical vessels, motors, pumps, valves, tanks, and other equipment. Touchless™ Monitoring solutions automatically detect high temperatures, flames, and potential faults before a catastrophic failure occurs, improving operations & maintenance and reducing the time and cost of inspections.

Personnel Monitoring

Keep personnel safe and reduce time spent in hazardous environments at drill decks, well pads, storage tanks, reserve pits, and other facilities.

Touchless™ Monitoring solutions limit the need for costly and dangerous physical inspections and mitigate the risk of fires and explosions that can injure workers and damage equipment.

Environmental Monitoring

Reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve compliance at oil refineries, LNG terminals, offshore and onshore rigs oil & gas wells, LNG tankers, FPSO ships, and other facilities where leaks occur. Touchless™ Monitoring solutions provide remote and autonomous gas detection at the leak point, gas quantification, and flare monitoring in virtually any weather or conditions.

Applications for Oil & Gas

Intelligent Thermography

Overcome the limitations of physical inspections and mitigate the risk of catastrophic equipment failure with continuous, 24/7 thermal and visual monitoring.

Explosion-proof sensors monitor the health and performance of high-value assets, while advanced software automatically alerts operators to temperature variations or other anomalies. Real-time access to data enables the transition toward a Condition-Based Maintenance strategy and reduces total O&M costs.

Leak Detection and Repair

Reduce environmental damage, product loss, and regulatory risk with optical gas detection & analytics.

The cost-effective sensors immediately detect, locate, and visualize gas leaks as soon as they occur, while advanced Al allows operators to estimate the Mass Flow Rate, determine the root cause of the leak, and prioritize a response.

Oil Tank Leveling & Spill Detection

Quantify and visualize liquid in storage tanks, measure fuel temperatures, and evaluate conditions for pressure build-up and leaks with thermal analytics and monitoring.

Explosion-proof radiometric thermal sensors provide early detection and quantification of leaks or spills without the need for manual inspections that put personnel at risk.

Min/max threshold alarms ensure maximum loading is met but not exceeded to prevent overflow accidents.

Flare Stack Monitoring

Identify intermittent changes in flare behaviour and continuously monitor the operating level of multiple flare stacks with thermal & visual sensors.

Thermal imaging sensors automatically detect and visualize invisible flares, smoke, or other pollutants and determine if flares are burning higher, lower, hotter, or cooler than expected. Alarms provide early warning of liquid carryover and alert operators if the pilot flame fails while avoiding many of the technical and cost-related problems associated with other technologies.

Safety Monitoring & Surveillance

Control access to secure and hazardous areas and ensure adherence to safety protocols with secure area analytics & monitoring.

Thermal sensors provide fewer false positives than traditional video cameras, while visual sensors enable the health & safety team to monitor access, track when personnel enter and exit critical areas of interest, and review data in case of a safety or security incident.

Flame Detection

Detect, verify, and localize visible or invisible flames and calculate fire probability vs. give threshold with advanced thermal analytics & monitoring.

Explosion-proof thermal sensors provide a high detection range over large areas and are not affected by fog, smoke, or time of day, allowing operators to evacuate the area of the fire and initiate a response to minimize damage.

Intelligent Sensors

  • Pan/Tilt/Zoom or Fixed Thermal Camera
  • Optical Gas Imaging
  • Thermal Analytics
  • Stainless Steel Construction
  • Certified Explosion-Proof
  • HazLoc Certified
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Visual Monitoring

  • Pan/Tilt/Zoom or Fixed Visual Cameras
  • Fiber or Copper Network Ports
  • Day/Night Performance
  • Certified Explosion-Proof
  • HazLoc Certified
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Visualization Software

  • Remote Camera Controls
  • Thermal & Visual Analytics
  • Real-Time Alarm Management
  • Live & Recorded Video
  • Unified Dashboard for  Multiple Sensors
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Processing & Gateways

  • Support Up to 16 Cameras
  • Digital Inputs and Outputs
  • Integrate with Existing SCADA, PI, or GIS
  • Industry Protocols - MODBUS, DNP
  • Power Supply HazLoc Certified
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Services & Solutions

  • Complete Turnkey Solutions
  • Mobile Monitoring
  • Energy Harvesting Options
  • System Integration & Maintenance
  • Solution Engineering & Design
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Further Reading

A downstream oil refinery processes hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil each day before storing the various products and distributing them to customers. The refinery takes maintenance seriously, creating maintenance schedules for each asset and conducting regular physical inspections beyond what is required to comply with regulations.

The Scenario - Bulk Storage Tank Levelling and Gauging A midstream oil processing and storage company operates numerous bulk storage terminals across a large geographical area. Product sent through pipelines from upstream oil exploration and production companies arrives at the site for storage, processing, and transporting onward to downstream refineries.

The Scenario - Undetected Leaks at Remote Oil Wells A mid-sized oil exploration and production company operates numerous oil wells across a wide geographic area. To comply with regulations, the company conducts periodic physical inspections using handheld sensors and other manual leak detection techniques. Many of these wells are remote and difficult to access, increasing the time and cost required to dispatch a crew and conduct the inspection.

Oil & gas facilities are difficult and sometimes dangerous places for workers. Hazardous conditions, including the presence of flammable gas, toxic chemicals, and heavy equipment mean that the health and safety of personnel must always be the priority when extracting, transporting, storing, or distributing petroleum products.

The oil & gas industry contributes a significant share of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Much of these emissions are in the form of methane, a highly potent but short-lived GHG that is responsible for as much as 30 percent of the rise in global temperatures.

The oil & gas industry faces increasing public, investor, and regulatory pressure to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, improve workplace safety, and mitigate the environmental impact of activities across the production process.

The oil & gas industry faces unique and complex maintenance challenges. Facilities across the production process often operate in extremely difficult conditions that increase the likelihood of equipment degradation and failure.

The oil & gas industry has long used cameras for security and safety applications. In case of an incident, teams could review the video footage and see what happened. But they had limited capabilities to actually prevent an issue from occurring in the first place. Today, Touchless™ Monitoring solutions allow data from thermal and visual sensors to be used proactively, not just reactively. The explosion-proof sensors provide 24/7 continuous monitoring of upstream, midstream, or downstream facilities for a wide range of applications.

The oil & gas industry plays a significant role in the North American economy. As global energy demand recovers, the North American oil & gas market is expected to grow to more than $356 billion by 2025. Extracting, transporting, refining, and distributing oil & gas requires a complex mix of diverse and geographically dispersed facilities. Each of these sites faces unique challenges, especially when it comes to the operation and maintenance of high-value industrial assets.

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