Industrial Ethernet for the Oil & Gas Industry

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Overview

Using Industrial Ethernet Networks to
Increase Operating Profit in the Oil and Gas Industry

The quest for increasing operating efficiencies, availability, flexibility and reducing environmental impact affects every step of oil and gas operations, including oil and gas production as well as exploration and downstream processing and manufacturing.

Achieve your Operational Excellence Through:

Improved Flexibility		Added Safety		Increased Redundancy and Availability		Enhanced Reliability

Ethernet is gaining popularity in the oil and gas industry due to its interoperability, flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and adaptability to industrial environments. To improve operational efficiency and safety in vast, inhospitable oil fields, remote monitoring has become a necessity for 21st century oil and gas operations. The remote operation system is built on greater high-bandwidth Ethernet network for transferring high volumes of data in real-time. Moxa provides a wealth of products, such as industrial Ethernet switches, IP video solutions, and Ethernet I/O products, which help engineers build efficient monitoring networks at unmanned and isolated sites. Ethernet products include 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps and 1 Gbps speeds, with a mixture of fiber, copper, and SFP ports. Highly integrated solutions connect serial, LANs, and WLANs to ensure ease of integration with existing and future control systems.		Safety is a non-negotiable factor for oil and gas facilities surrounded by environmentally hazardous substances. Sites are classified by the types of hazards present at the site. Careful assessment must be made before locating facilities in potentially explosive areas to ensure compliance with a number of different safety standards. For example, many of Moxa’s Ethernet-enabled products have received DNV/GL and UL/cUL Class I Division 2, ATEX IIG3 C1Z2 certifications to guarantee safe operation in hazardous conditions.		Oil and gas production must operate continuously to maximize profit. Unexpected downtime and failure to respond effectively to critical situations can be very costly in the industrial sector. For this reason, high data availability must never be compromised for critical process control networks. Designing a non-stop network between field RTUs and SCADA hosts relies primarily on redundant technologies. Moxa's Ethernet switches and serial device servers support the Moxa Turbo Ring topology, which is the fastest redundant ring available (recovery time < 20 ms with up to 250 Ethernet switches). Moxa's products also feature dual redundant VAC/VDC power inputs to ensure high availability of process control networks.		Harsh environmental factors, such as wide temperature fluctuations, vibrations, rain, dust, and EMI noise, have the potential to interrupt normal operations in the oil and gas industry. Other criteria include hardened design for field operations and data transmission over long distances between field devices and SCADA hosts. To address these issues, Moxa offers heavy-duty networking features, including models that operate reliably in extreme temperatures, an anti-vibration and weatherproof design, high MTBF ratings with fanless design, high immunity to EMI noise, fiber optic support, and robust metal cases.

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