OIL
CEI offers the broadest range of software available from any one vendor for crude oil, refined products and natural gas liquids pipeline engineering, and operational, measurement and business processes.
Liquids Management System (LMS)
LMS comprises a number of flexible, high performance modules that meet a variety of realtime operational needs.
- Metering & Ticketing - Determines net metered volumes and flow rates for each point of measurement in the pipeline system, utilizing standard American Petroleum Institute (API) calculations. The Ticketing functionality package provides the ability to store, view and edit pending, active, and completed tickets. The application also accepts batch movement schedules from third party applications.
- Meter Proving - Provides the interface between the Control Center Operator and the physical meter prover and performs the necessary calculations for calculating meter factors.
Tank Management - Monitors tanks, calculates tank volume and flow rates and generates various alarms and events.
- Batch Tracking - Tracks movements and predicts the estimated time of arrival for batches and anomalies through a pipeline system, assuming steady-state flow conditions. Pipeline pressures/temperatures, batch and anomaly positions, and ETA's are calculated.
- Leak Detection - Detects leaks via a steady state volume imbalance calculation methodology. Includes four independent adjustable alarm limits which can be set for each of six integration periods.
- Pump Statistics & Validation - The Unit Statistics component calculates unit statistics for individual pumping units, calculates efficiency of a station, records daily and accumulated pump unit statistics historically, resets unit statistics, permits editing of unit statistics and provides unit statistic reports. The Unit Validation component monitors all stations and their associated pump units to ensure that maximum station power is not exceeded. It also monitors each unit start to ensure that certain conditions are met.