Process control commission

ABB has successfully commissioned a major new industrial process control system (PCS) on Woodside Energy Ltd's Goodwyn A (GWA) gas production platform on the North West Shelf off Western Australia. The system is the first of its kind in Australia, namely an offshore web-enabled system with the provision to be controlled and managed remotely as well as on-site. Importantly, it also provides the foundation for Goodwyn A's PCS to continually integrate other technologies as they become available, thanks to the ABB Industrial IT open architecture.

The $1.5 million project involved an upgrade of Goodwyn A's legacy Bailey management command consoles (MCS) that had been in use since the early 1990s. The new system uses ABB's Operate Process Portal B software in a dual system architecture, whereby two identical systems are configured to provide very high system availability. It was commissioned without requiring a platform shutdown.