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Gas Plant Optimization Program (GPOP) Many mature gas processing plants
were originally designed to handle fixed throughput, fixed composition inlets,
and their pneumatic and early electronic control systems were designed for ease
of operation rather than to extract maximum plant profitability. Over the years,
some of these plants were expanded one unit at a time, with short-term, low-cost
control solutions being added for each expansion without considering the optimization
of the entire plant. Today, these plants have multiple variable-load, variable-composition
inlet streams and a legacy of obsolete, maintenance-prone, and safety-compromised
control devices. They need to improve their competitive advantage and mitigate
their safety risks if they are to remain viable for the remaining life of the
plant.
Emerson Process Management offers its proven Gas Plant Optimization
Program (GPOP) that extracts maximum asset utilization from your plant. GPOP consists
of 3 phases. - Phase 1 is the study that identifies strategies to maximize
profitability and minimize safety and environmental risks for the entire plant.
- Phase 2 is the implementation of Emerson Process Management'
robust suite of control strategies and performance indicators, plus the implementation
of any required control system and instrumentation, bringing the value identified
in the study.
- Phase 3, if needed, is our ongoing support for
your optimized system. This ensures your continued competitive advantage.
Our
suite of improved regulatory control strategies handles the load and composition
variability of your plant, is inexpensive and user-friendly, and runs on industry-standard
control system products. Our suite of real-time performance indicators provides
the operator with easily-understood economic and operations metrics needed to
make effective and timely business decisions.
GPOP enables your plant
to reduce fuel and electric energy consumption, increase liquids recovery, reduce
product giveaway, reduce environmental emissions, and make a more efficient use
of personnel. The end result is that your gas plant becomes continuously efficient
and responsive in a continuously changing production, processing, and downstream
demand environment.
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