Consurv Technic (M) Sdn Bhd

Lot C12A-4 Jalan Ampang Utama 1/1

68000 Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia
Tel.: 03 4256 4254
Fax: 03 4256 5254



Industrial Internship
Project Progress Report


June 2012 August 2012


Consurv Technic (M) Sdn. Bhd.


Title : OSIsoft PI System Pilot Project
for PETRONAS Group Technical
Solutions (GTS)
Name : Ng Tong Wu
Matric ID : 13513
Course : ICT
UTP Supervisor : En. Saipunidzam b. Mahamad
Intern Supervisor : En Faiz H. Hussin




Consurv Technic (M) Sdn Bhd
Lot C12A-4 Jalan Ampang Utama 1/1
68000 Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia
Tel.: 03 4256 4254
Fax: 03 4256 5254

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. PROJECT BACKGROUND
i. Introduction ... 1
ii. Problem Statement . 1
iii. Feasibility of Project 2
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
i. Literature Review . 3
3. METHODOLOGY
i. Project Activities ... 4
ii. Gantt Chart .. 5
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
i. Data Gathering and Analysis 6
5. PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT AND PROGRESS
i. Project Achievement and Progress .. 7
































Consurv Technic (M) Sdn Bhd
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68000 Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia
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1. PROJECT BACKGROUND
Introduction
Oil and gas industry relies on real time and reliable data to engage precise
process control in order to regulate risks associated in its upstream and
midstream activities.

OSIsofts PI System is a plant information system that can help oil and gas
companies to maximize their process and production efficiency in order to face
extremely high production costs.

OSIsoft PI System deploys an architecture that provide real time data
infrastructure and collaboration tools to maximize asset performance through
real time monitoring, periodical reporting, and also historical trend analysis.

This project aims to develop and install the OSIsoft PI System in a pilot
project to show to the client, PETRONASs Group Technical Solutions,
Technology and Engineering Department its capabilities and advantages.
PETRONAS Penapisan (Melaka) Sdn. Bhd. which is an existing OSIsoft PI
System user will be the host to allow our team to read and extract real time
data from their PI AF Server. iPerintis which is the technical team of
PETRONAS will be the supporting arm to handle all the connectivity and
security issues between all parties.

All of the PETRONAS production facilities or plants have existing plant
information systems, either Honeywell or Aspentech. However, none of these
existing PI systems provide the extensive capabilities and features offered by
OSIsoft.

As a system integrator and / or agent to OSIsoft, Consurv Technic (M) Sdn.
Bhd. notices the business opportunity. We decided to establish a team of IT
staffs and made a proposal to the Technology and Engineering Department of
GTS to kick start this pilot project in order to demonstrate the capabilities and
features of the OSIsoft PI System.

Problem Statement
Conventional plant information systems lacked in terms of reporting features
as offered by OSIsofts PI System. It has the capability to generate reports
and custom views in its PI Process Book component. Trends and 2D Plant
and Instrumentation Diagram (PNI Diagram) with real time data can be
generated.

OSIsofts PI System allows sharing of data across platform and data
availability in real time. The OSIsoft PI Web Parts allows content provider to
build Microsoft Sharepoint System to share information across the enterprise
while PI Coresight allows user to generate custom data views through
Silverlight enabled browser.


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PI Notification has the capability to deliver real time desktop alert, alarm,
and / or email notification upon breaching of parameters. This will allow for
immediate and accurate decisions to control and mitigate the risks.

Also, existing plant information system has been in used for a long time and is
getting compatibility issues with newer equipment. OSIsofts PI system
promises new features while maintaining backward compatibility for older
equipment. It can easily replace obsolete and / or aging plant information
technology.

Another feature of current plant information systems is they lacked the ability
to integrate with Microsoft Office applications. Whereas OSIsofts PI System
is built around Microsoft Office components to allow user take advantage of
features they already familiar with.

Feasibility of Project
The project will be conducted over a period of six (6) months, which is from
June 2012 to December 2012.

As this is a pilot project, trial licenses for each of OSIsoft PI System
components have been issued and expiry date is 31
st
December 2012.

This project has been proposed since the month June 2011 to PETRONAS GTS
and was kick started in the month of May 2012.

Consurv Technic (M) SDn. Bhd. aimed to gain not just monetary profit from
this pilot project but also the recognition from client as the preferred vendor
for OSIsoft PI System. However, all costs and fees involved in the process of
the project will be carried by the client.


















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2. LITERATURE REVIEW
John Baier, Director of Project Management from OSIsoft said: Wish you
knew how to predict the future? The answer lies in the past.

Many incidents in a production facility are repeating and / or happening after
certain symptoms. Maintenance work or mitigation process should be made
when symptoms that have history of leading to an incident occurs.
Comparative analysis of current equipment status with historical data is
beneficial to predict incidents and prevent them.

According to The Role of Predictive Analytics in Asset Optimization for the Oil
and Gas Industry published by R. Nicholson, C. Madden, J. Flebowitz, and R.
Bigliani (2001), an analysis on the financial statements of the 5 major oil and
gas companies in the USA reveals the 51% of their assets consist of plants,
equipments, and properties. Therefore, it can be deduced that proper asset
management will help to optimize the cost of production in the industry.

This is supported by the ERG Group, a clientele of OSIsofts PI System. The
ERG Group is Italys main independent energy and petroleum group. They
reported to have achieved reduction in downtime and cost saving by shifting to
condition based maintenance, which means maintenance done based on
early detected symptoms instead of periodical maintenance. ERG: Driving out
unnecessary costs by shifting ot Condition Based Maintenance and reducing
downtime.

OSIsofts PI System is a comprehensive asset monitoring tool that is able to
help the user to optimize the production and increase efficiency in the value
chain, especially in the Oil and Gas industry where production costs is
extremely huge and downtime is crucial.



















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3. METHODOLOGY
Project Activities
1. Planning
- Discussion with GTS (client) to identify business requirements.
- Discussion with iPerintis and PPMSB to identify technical requirements.
- Discussion with OSIsoft (Singapore) to acknowledge and acquire trial
licenses.
2. Analyze & Design
- Project feasibility study and costing (internal).
- Submission of project feasibility report to GTS.
- Submission of commercial impact (quotation) report to GTS.
- Submission of finalized Terms of Reference (TOR) to GTS.
3. Building
- Procurement and initial set up of PI System components on a server.
- Set up networking to access PPMSB PI Server through PETRONAS
intranet.
- Build AF Tree in PI System Explorer.
- Build customized dashboard view in PI Process Book.
- Export PI Process Book entry to Microsoft Office Excel file.
- Build Microsoft Sharepoint System based on PI Web Parts.
- Build web portal based on PI Coresight.
- Progress report for each session at GTS office.
4. Testing
- Test planning.
- System Integration Testing.
- Application Testing.
- User Acceptance Testing.
5. End
- Project completion / termination meeting.
- Submission of final project report.
- Submission of invoice.
- Discussion on future collaborations / procurement.














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Gantt Chart



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4. RESULT AND DISCUSSION
Data Gathering and Analysis
Data gathered in this project is in terms of values of each tag. Each monitored
equipment will have a sensor that is reporting values to the Data Collector
Server (DCS), this sensor will have a specific tag name. The values of the tags
will be stored in the PI Server and can be retrieved using any OSIsoft PI
System component. The fundamental of the OSIsoft PI System is reading
the tag values using any components in a real time manner.

Using the PI System Explorer, we can generate and organize a tree view of
all the equipment in a hierarchical manner. The status of each equipment can
be viewed from its attributes.

Using the PI Process Book, we can generate a role based dashboard that
can view data in a graphical way corresponding to the levels of the user. Each
user will only need to see the data regarding his / her own department; no
unnecessary data will be distracting the knowledge worker.

PI Process Book will also be used as a tool to perform data analysis using its
trend building features that can include historical data from the start of
record.

Using PI Web Parts, information can be shared over the Microsoft Sharepoint
platform to all connected users.

PI Coresight is used to create a web portal that will allow end user to view
data from any place using browser that support the Silverlight platform. The
web portal is highly customizable by the end user. End user will be able to use
drag-and-drop gesture to create a customized view for needed data views.



















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68000 Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia
Tel.: 03 4256 4254
Fax: 03 4256 5254

5. PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT AND PROGRESS
The project team is now in the Building phase where we are focusing on the
task: Building dashboard using PI Process Book.

The project team had encountered several issues during the Analyze and
Design phase where the security certificate for the intranet connection is
being delayed. Also the tag configuration from the host server was not
released during the Analyze and Design phase. These two (2) issues had
caused a certain delay, but with proper control and support from the client,
iPerintis, and PPMSB, the Building phase is in progress as scheduled.

NO TASK STATUS
Planning
1.1 Discussion with GTS to identify business requirement DONE
1.2 Discussion with iPerintis and PPMSB to identify technical
requirement
DONE
1.3 Discussion with OSIsoft (Singapore) to acknowledge and acquire
trial licenses.
DONE
Analyze & Design
2.1 Project feasibility study and costing (internal) DONE
2.2 Submission of project feasibility report to GTS DONE
2.3 Submission of commercial impact (quotation) report to GTS DONE
2.4 Submission of finalized Terms of Reference (TOR) to GTS DONE
Building
3.1 Procurement and initial set up of PI System components on a
server
DONE
3.2 Set up networking to access PPMSB PI Server through
PETRONAS intranet
DONE
3.3 Build AF Tree in PI System Explorer DONE
3.4 Build customized dashboard view in PI Process Book WORKING
3.5 Export PI Process Book entry to Microsoft Office Excel file WORKING
3.6 Build Microsoft Sharepoint System based on PI Web Parts WORKING
3.7 Build web portal based on PI Coresight WORKING
3.8 Progress report for each session at GTS office WORKING
Testing
4.1 Test planning PENDING
4.2 System Integration Testing PENDING
4.3 Application Testing PENDING
4.4 User Acceptance Testing PENDING
End
5.1 Project completion / termination meeting PENDING
5.2 Submission of final project report PENDING
5.3 Submission of invoice PENDING