Baharain Petroleum Company (Bapco) said its process control and instrumentation department has successfully upgraded the key tank farm systems.

This includes the obsolete first-release of Yokogawa's Windows-NT based Centum-CS Distributed Control System (DCS) and Unix-based Oil Movement System in the refinery tank farm control building.

This consisted of upgrading the consoles to latest Yokogawa DCS-Centum VP-based CS3000 and Windows 2008 Server - Enterprise Edition-based Oil Movement System.

Proper planning and good teamwork during the design along with a thorough factory acceptance test ensured no shutdown of the fuel oil blender, which is running continuously round the clock.

The oil movement system package installed in the tank farm is a very specialised software to monitor and control the blending of petrol, diesel and fuel oil, including complicated tank-to-tank, tank-to-units and units-to-tanks transfers.

Bapco's chief executive Faisal Al Mahroos thanked the engineering division in general and the process control and instrumentation department in particular for the remarkable achievement.-TradeArabia News Service