BP has let a $14-million contract to Emerson to provide automation technologies for the new Azeri Central East offshore platform in the Caspian Sea offshore Azerbaijan, the latest development in Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) oilfield (OGJ Online, Apr. 19, 2019).
Emerson will serve as the main automation contractor, providing its Project Certainty methodologies and digital technologies. BP expects to bring the project onstream in 2023.
In April, partners in the ACG complex approved the $6-billion investment for the platform expected able to process as much as 100,000 b/d of oil. The 48-slot production, drilling, and production platform will be installed in 140 m of water midway between the existing Central Azeri and East Azeri platforms. New infield pipelines will connect the facility to ACG Phase 2 oil and gas pipelines that carry production to the Sangachal terminal.
Emerson said it will apply its portfolio of automation software and services to help BP achieve greater production and safe operations. This includes Emerson’s DeltaV automation system that controls critical safety functions in addition to wellhead production, drilling and the transfer of oil and gas to the onshore Sangachal terminal.
Automation technologies also anticipate safety risks and enable remote monitoring. Wired and wireless networks will connect more than 1,000 Emerson measurement instruments to monitor pressure, flow, temperature, and pipework corrosion. Emerson also will provide all critical control, emergency shutdown and isolation valves, connected by its digital positioning technology.