16-03-2012

AVEVA presents solutions for natural gas industry at the Rio gas forum

AVEVA today announced it will present a series of customer case studies to highlight design and engineering software solutions currently being applied in some of most important projects underway in the Brazilian natural gas sector 3rd Rio Gas Forum, hosted by Petrobras, to be held at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro 20-22 March. During the panel session, "Technologies to Optimise Gas Resources of Brazil," scheduled for Wednesday 21 March, at 2pm, Santiago Pena, Senior Vice President - Latin America, AVEVA, will detail the business benefits that AVEVA technology has brought to a number of high profile projects.
 
"AVEVA solutions are present in some of the most important developments in the areas of shipbuilding, offshore installations and across a range of process plant environments. We will explore customer case studies during the Rio Gas Forum focusing the tangible business benefits on offer to the natural gas industry through our 3D engineering design and information management strategies", said Santiago Pena.
 
One of the case studies includes, SETAL - Oil and Gas who was responsible for the expansion project of Duque de Caxias Refinery (Reduc), as part of the Plan of the Gas Production Anticipation (Plangás). The initial phase of the project concluded last year using a range of integrated applications from the AVEVA Plant portfolio. The company was already using AVEVA PDMS for projects in refining. The decision to use the AVEVA Plant portfolio was taken after conducting a simulation that demonstrated a significant gain in project efficiency.