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S&T: Innovative order from the China National Petroleum Corporation

Planning and Setup of a “Measurement Expert Analyzing System” (MEAS)

The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is a worldwide leading energy supply company and is China’s flagship in the field of oil and gas production and sales. CNPC produces 2.75 million barrels of crude oil per day and has 2,320.1 billion cubic meters of oil reserves. In 2007, the business achieved sales of 1,000.68 billion RMB Yuan (ca. 11.7 billion euros). CNPC required a modern system for checking their pipelines, and the contract for its development and realization was awarded to S&T China last year. The highly complex project was recently successfully completed. “Our experts in China took care of the needs analysis and system consulting, as well as the structural system design and the creation of the complete solution. Consequently CNPC now has a top-quality Business Intelligence System“, explains Christian Rosner, S&T CEO.

Accurate location of defects

MEAS records the specific pressure in CNPC pipelines using special sensors, and can thus display any defects in the pipeline caused by, for example, surges within the pipes. The magnetic data is used by the appropriate experts at CNPC to analyze the pipeline characteristics, such as dimensions, defects and materials, and can be evaluated and presented in a variety of ways, e.g. using tables, diagrams and data reports. Defects can be measured, marked and accurately located in three dimensions by MEAS. The challenge posed by this project for S&T was primarily the task of developing a stable and secure system that could process the large volumes of incoming data in the required short space of time, and that could function on a permanent basis without hardware instability or database restrictions.