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Analyse pipeline design and performance

Solve operational and design challenges
CAPEX and OPEX savings

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has provided business critical systems to the oil and gas industry for over 40 years covering the entire oil and gas
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Key benefits of Stoner Pipeline Simulator (SPS)

Interactive model building

Simulate transient flow transmission systems

Manage pipeline scenarios

SPS Model Builder allows you to drag and drop model

elements from the toolbar to the workspace, defining
connectivity between elements. Interactive simulations provide
a full-featured view of pipeline and equipment operation.

Analyse hydraulic challenges

Model your entire control system

Monitor trends of inventory change by segment on time

plots

Technical support team available 24/7

Observe hydraulic surges, batch movement or composition

profiles on distance plots

Examine individual equipment performance through show

screens

Combine equipment properties into reports

Superior pipeline design and

performance analysis
Internationally recognised asan industry leader in pipeline
analysis, SPSis used by engineering, planning and operations
divisions to facilitatepipeline design and performance. The
software can be used to eliminateoperational problems for
networks transporting natural gas, dense phase gas or
(batched) liquid hydrocarbons. This comprehensive tool
analyses hydraulic challenges such as:

Simple throughput assessment

Survival time analysis

Complex behavior of highly viscous, non-Newtonian

crude oils

Detailed thermal studies involving heat exchange across

multiple layers

Slack line flow phenomena

SPS handles any combination of scenarios including control

system analysis, equipment performance analysis or pressure
flow capacity analysis with user-defined levels of complexity.
The software can simulate all of your existing equipment,
including pipes, centrifugal and reciprocating compressors and
station yard piping, regulators, valves, headers and heat
exchangers, exactly as it is configured in the field. SPS can
model your entire control system, sensors, PID controllers,
relays and actuators.
You can use the SPS idealised controls for more simplified
simulations. SPS can model compressors simply, or in
complete detail. For centrifugal compressors, you can enter
your performance data at a single speed, and SPS will apply
fan laws to complete the performance map.
SPS allows you to specify the entire performance curve for
the compressor and/or turbine driver, or simulate variable
guide-vane compressors. For reciprocating compressors, you
can use either simplified units or detailed compressors that
consider pocket displacement and clearance ratios.

Powerful transient flow simulation

A Drag, drop, connect and edit
devices with Model Builder
B

The SPS offline and real time solutions

SPSprovides arange of compatible simulation solutions from
the planning desktop to operator training and qualification,
to real timesystems including leak detection and predictive
simulation. Combine the hydraulic capabilities of SPS with
its advanced control system features and the embedded
application development language (ADL) for solution-driven
hydraulic and operational analysis tools.

Operational interface
In addition to the engineering facility offered by the SPS
native interface, all SPS applications can be viewed viaan
operationalinterface. This interface is a flexible, fully
configurable, Control Room or desktop GUI with the
following functionality:

During simulation, control system tuning and/or equipment

operation, all displays are updated dynamically as the hydraulic
response is drawn on the screen. Following simulation, you can
use the tools provided to display results as plots or tables for
inclusion in reports.

A complete range of compatible simulation solutions

Fully interactive graphical screens

Pipeline modeling with SPS

Leakfinder

Access control and security logging features

Fully web-enabled thin client interface

Trending of measured and calculated data

SPSs excellent hydraulic design capability is critical to

achieving optimal return on a pipeline asset. SPS provides the
benchmark in transient flow simulation of transmission systems.

Graphical profile views of pipeline properties

Alarms and event management

Reporting, data export to other applications such as Excel

The Leakfinder toolprovides pipeline surveillance to rapidly

detect potentially costly releases. Our state estimation
technology maintains constant vigilance over pipelines,
calculating the pipeline state even when poor or missing
telemetry data have compromised the SCADA system. The
toolcontinually analyses the calculated state, searching for
anomalies that suggest a leak. Using two different leak
detection techniques concurrently, the softwareprovides
truly effective leak detection.

Trainer
The operator qualification and trainer functionality of SPS
helps to ensure that your team members are fully trained to
recognise and respond effectively to abnormal pipeline
behaviours or emergency situations. Solutions are delivered in
a highly realistic simulation environment or run directly from
clients own SCADA data. Much like a flight simulator used to
train airline pilots, operators learn thefeel oftheir pipelines
operation, recognise the signatures of emerging problems, and
learn toreturn the pipeline to safe operation, preventing a
pipeline accident.

Statefinder

Dynamic updates

Monitor slack line flow in a

batched liquid pipeline

The Statefinder functionality provides a real-time, continuous

simulation of actual pipeline operations. This mathematical
simulation, running in parallel to a real pipeline, is driven by
SCADA measurements. Using proprietary state-estimation
technology, the software delivers a more comprehensive and
reliable view of the pipelines operation than is available
from SCADA.

Predictor
In the realm of natural gas transmission,the Predictor
functionality helps togive you confidence in your business plan
by testing that plan in advance of actual operations. Not only
can your gas controllers check for alarms in advance, they can
test many what-if scenarios to increase efficiency or push the
envelope of capacity during projected high demand periods. By
using the tool, you can confirm nominations with confidence.