Real-time Information System (RTIS)

High Availability Project at RasGas

Presented by
Jassim Al-Shammali
Mohammad Shamsul
RasGas Company Limited

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RasGas Company Overview

RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) is a Qatari joint

stock company established in 2001 by Qatar
Petroleum (70 percent) and ExxonMobil (30
percent). It acts as the operating company for and on
behalf of the project owners:

• Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company

Limited 'RL‘
• Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company
Limited (II) 'RL (II)‘
• Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company
Limited (3) 'RL (3)‘
• Al Khaleej Gas Project (AKG-1 and AKG-2)
• Ras Laffan Helium 1 and 2
• Barzun Gas Company Limited (Barzan Gas
Project) – 2014

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Phase 1: Upgrade Project

Presented by:
Jassim Al-Shammali
Senior Engineer (Controls - DCS)

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 RasGas RTIS Overview
RasGas Expansion Project RasGas Expansion Phase 2 Project
(RGX-1) (RGX-2)

Trains 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Helium, Al-Khaleej Trains 6, 7, AKG-2, Offshore (New

Area Gas Project (AKG-1), Utilities, Offsite, wellheads)
Offshore, Electrical Data (ELICS)

Server Name RTIS02 RTIS67

Tag Counts 75,000 69,000

Redundancy High Availability Virtual Server

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Why We Upgraded to High Availability

Audits, Cold Eye Review,

RCFA

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 High Availability Strategy
System Clients: PI ProcessBook, PI DataLink, PI WebParts,
Management Custom Application…
Tools AppServers: PI AF, RtBLS, RtReports, PI ACE

PI SDK API
Discovery, Failover, Failback, Load Distribution Services Buffering

PI Server Collective

Secondary Configuration Primary Configuration Secondary

PI Server Changes PI Server Changes PI Server(s)

API Buffering API Buffering

Services Failover Services
Mechanisms
PI Interfaces PI Interfaces

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 High Availability Upgrade Steps & Challenges
Upgrade DCS Interfaces Archive Testing, Migration & Commissioning

PRIMARY SECONDARY High

Foxboro I/A Availability

RTIS02 RTIS_Test RTIS02 RTIS03

Primary Secondary
ONLINE
OFFLINE ONLINE ONLINE
OFFLINE ONLINE
CCB, Satellite Instrument House CCB Admin Admin
ENGG Room IT Data Center IT Data Center

Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4

Emergency Contract, MOC, Risk Upgrade DCS Archive Testing, Migration,

Assessment, Team Charter, Interfaces, Buffer HA Upgrade Commissioning
Hardware preparation Audit [Offline] No data loss

January February March April

Resources: RasGas RasGas and EMI

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Phase 2: Monitoring Tool

Presented By:
Mohammad Shamsul
Senior Engineer (Controls – RTIS)

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 RTIS Monitoring Process

Email SMS
Notification Email
Call-out Notification
USER RTIS Administrator

RasGas RTIS Monitoring

Physical Tool (RTISMON)
Inspection PI SMT
IT Technician PI AF

PI MCN Health Monitor

PI Notifications
POINTS OPERATIONS INTERFACES DATA SECURITY
Identity
Builder Archives List Current
Trust
Editor Logs Archived
PI Firewall
Bad/Stale Network

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RTISMON Architecture
RTISMON

PI Server PI ACE Server File Server

RTIS02 RTIS03 RTIS67 PIACE PIACE67 RTISAPPS

Servers
DCS Non-DCS

Interfaces
LIMS PMS Sigmafine® QatarGas
DCS ELICS

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 Monitoring Rules (Servers Side)
* Note: PING test applied to all

PI Server PI ACE Server File Server PI to PI Interface

Increase Zero

Abnormal Abnormal Abnormal Frozen Zero Stale

Archive Read

For info
Snapshot Event
Queue
IORATES
Memory Memory Memory Noisy tag Check
Calculation
Processor Processor Processor
Error over Total
Hard Disk Hard Disk Hard Disk
System System System
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Monitoring Rules (Interfaces Side)
* Note: PING test applied to all

DCS Interfaces Non-DCS Interfaces

No update
Zero Stale Frozen

IORATES Sample tag

Check Noisy tag

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 PI Archive Sub-system Case Study

ACTIONS
1. Developed procedure and monitor
daily
2. Force disconnect (if necessary)
when the threats become severe
3. Tune ArcMaxCollect to lower value
4. Increase users awareness by
training and sharing sessions
Heavy Hitter identified
1 Million events read Focus more on true peaks

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Improvements and Benefits

• Criticality: growing number of users, interfaces and critical data

into RTIS, uninterrupted data
• Reliability: address obsolescence due to aging hardware and
PI System version
• Integrity: take advantage of latest PI System surveillance tools
• Security: utilizing PI System security features for data security

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Future Plans and Next Steps

• Upgrade RGX-2 RTIS server to High Availability

• Database tuning
• Develop RTIS KPI / Performance report

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 Questions?

Contact Information
• Jassim Al-Shammali (jzalshammali@rasgas.com.qa)
• Mohammad Shamsul (msbinyudin@rasgas.com.qa)

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