Success Story Petronet LNG Alarm

Petronet LNG Avails Honeywell’s Consultancy Services to Improve Alarm System Performance

“Honeywell’s alarm system management approach and solution provided a clear understanding of our existing system performance and the risks associated. With their assessment and recommendations for immediate improvement, we now have a long-term action plan to ensure the safe and reliable operations at our plant.” Nirav D. Shah, Manager (Instrumentation), Petronet LNG Limited

Benefits • Adhered to alarm limits to ensure safe and reliable plant Alarm systems are a core element of almost all modern operation operator interfaces in today’s process plants. They provide • Enhanced operator effectiveness and abnormal an important means to automatically monitor the plant situation management conditions and attract attention of plant operators to significant changes that may require their assessment and • Identified areas for immediate improvement for process action. The Petronet LNG plant in Dahej has started a major optimization initiative for Risk Assessment and Minimization Procedures • Established a consistent alarm management philosophy to maintain a firm commitment to the highest standards in plant-wide process operation, along with adherence to the International Alarm Management Guidelines lik ASM, EEMUA 191 and ISA.

The major goal for Petronet LNG was to identify areas of improvement in the process operation and establish a continual site specific alarm management philosophy for optimized control. In order to accomplish this the company turned to Honeywell and its complete alarm management solution that enabled Petronet to highlight the major performance indicators around control systems, while also providing an assessment of real problems from an operations point of view.

Honeywell used its alarm management expertise to suggest Petronet improves alarm system management, control and operator performance at Dahej facilities with Honeywell Alarm Management actions for immediate improvement to help reduce the long Solution. term average workload that the alarm system imposed on Background the operators and a long-term action plan for for continual Petronet LNG Limited is South East Asia’s first LNG alarm system performance improvement. receiving and regasification terminal in India and one of the fastest growing world-class companies in the Indian energy Honeywell’s solution approach to alarm management helped sector. The Dahej, Gujarat facilities started in 2004 with an Petronet achieve the following benefits: original nameplate capacity of 5MMTPA and later expanded to 10MMTPA in 2009.

Petronet LNG Avails Honeywell’s ConsultancyServices to Improve Alarm System Performance

Formed as a Joint Venture by the Government of India to After conducting the assessment Honeywell shared a import LNG and set up LNG terminals in the country, it results-oriented action plan for the following: involves India's leading oil and natural gas industry players • Alarm rate and flood – this assessment highlighted like GAIL, IOCL and BPCL. The authorized capital is Rs. certain improvement areas to gain a better 1,200 crore ($240 million). understanding on the alarm rate thus avoiding alarm flood conditions in the plant Challenge • Priority distribution of alarms – this was revisited and One of the important company iniatives at Petronet LNG is reconfigured as per the site alarm management the risk asessement and minimization procedures. A risk philosophy management committee periodically reviews the procedures to ensure that executive management controls risk through a • Alarm type analysis – the major contributing alarms properly defined framework. The risk assessment framework were OFFNORM, BADPV and some system alarms encompasses a methodology for asessing risks on an which were auctioned after a detailed discussion with ongoing basis including a monitoring, prioritizing and operations and maintenance teams mitigating plan, along with a comprehensive reporting • Bad actors – analysis based on alarm activity gave an system. indication of major problems creating areas of immediate action items showing that 20 bad actors were Solution contributing to 60 percent of the total alarm load Petronet LNG turned to Honeywell for its complete alarm assessment solution that could highlight the major Honeywell’s long-term recommendations included the performance indicators along with its expert services to following: provide a realistic view of operational and performance • A site-specific alarm philosophy issues. • Definition of alarm principals and methodology for improvement Honeywell provided its alarm management expertise and recommended immediate actions for improvement including • Implementation of alarm management tools to assist reduction in the long-term average workload that the alarm operators in different plant sates (normal, shutdown, system imposed on the operator and an action plan for upset, start-up, etc.) continuous alarm system performance review. • Sustain the implemented benefits realized after the alarm pre-assessment • Formation of a steering committee to mobilize the More Information rationalization, assessment and auditing process to For more information on Honeywell’s Alarm ensure benefits Management Solution or any of Honeywell’s Products,

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