2013 Honeywell Users Group Americas

Automation and the Future of Shale Gas

Frank Whitsura, Vice President and General Manager

Refining in 1980

Disparate units

Immature control

Low throughput & yield

Current shale gas landscape looks very much the same.

How do I know?…

I Was There…

Refinery Performance – 1980

Number of refineries > 10KBPD 175

Total Crude Capacity KBPD 15,959

Average complexity 8.8

Operating Rate 82%

Gasoline Yield 53%

Distillate Yield 22%

Example: Motiva Port Arthur

Total crude: 226 KBPD

Nelson complexity: 9.6

FCC, Reformer, HDT, Alky

Refinery Performance – 2013

Number of refineries > 10KBPD 121

Total Crude Capacity KBPD 17,513

Average complexity 11.5

Operating Rate 87%

Gasoline Yield 46%

Distillate Yield 28%

Example: Motiva Port Arthur

Total crude: 610 KBPD

Nelson complexity: 12.23

Shale Gas Operations – Presently

13,000 new wells per year (35 per day)

U.S. Natural Gas Production 2000: 1% 2013: 23% 2030: 49%

Multiple wells (hundreds) needed at 1–6 wells per km2

Flow – sustained rates 50–250 Mcf/d

Initial production very high but declines 80% in first 12 months

Shale Gas Operations – 2020

Wells consolidated

Operations consolidated

Centralized control

Integrated operations

Remote operations

Increased yield

Increased profitability

Wellhead Templates,

Autogenerated Displays

Linepack, Flow Calcs,

Compressor Modeling,

Leak Detection

Project Efficiency Operations Efficiency

Pan & Zoom

Applications

Experion SCADA

Experion R430

Enhanced Experion SCADA

RTU Development

Low Power, Flexible Communications

HART Enabled

DNP & Modbus

-40C to 75C; Zone 2

IEC61131-3 Languages

Flow Calculations

Coming Soon

RTU for Wellhead or Pipeline Applications

Chevron Frade Bottom of the Ocean

Remote Operations for Challenging Operating Conditions

Access to remote locations

Increased safety

CAPEX consolidation and savings

OPEX savings

Codelco Mines Top of the Andes

Automation / Control

We’ve Been Here Before