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Teesside, United Kingdom,
April 16, 2003 - Emerson Process Management's mechanical and process equipment performance monitoring solution,
AMS Suite: Equipment Performance
Monitor, has been selected by Amerada Hess as the proven
choice to provide accurate and timely information on the performance of process equipment.
AMS Performance Monitor has been used on Amerada Hess' Triton Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) operating vessel for the last two years. Here,
AMS Performance Monitor identified degraded performance on a
compressor that, following maintenance activity, increased performance by over 10%. In addition, it also detected faulty instrumentation, responsible for lost production on a compressor train.
AMS Performance Monitor will be used by maintenance personnel on an additional Amerada Hess facility, called the Scott platform, to track the performance of centrifugal compressors, to enable maximum performance gains, and to foresee any need for preventive maintenance. Amerada Hess is driving for production increases on the Scott platform, the largest oil and gas field to come on stream within the UK sector of the North Sea within the last decade. The company expects production from this field, and the
neighboring Telford field, to produce the equivalent of 7% of UK oil requirements.
"Having seen the capabilities of this tool on the FPSO, this contract demonstrates that
AMS Performance Monitor is our preferred choice for performance monitoring on North Sea assets," said Martyn Campbell, Amerada Hess senior maintenance engineer for the Scott platform. "Our objective is to improve operational performance, by applying best-in-class technology, to maintain production and reduce the possibility of downtime. Therefore, it is beneficial to standardize on a proven tool, when it comes to selecting a system to provide accurate and timely information on the performance of our process equipment".
"Our challenge is to exceed our customers expectations. The way
AMS Performance Monitor is being adopted by world-class organizations as their preferred choice for performance monitoring, I'm confident that we are meeting that challenge," said Craig Llewellyn president of the
Asset Optimization division of Emerson Process Management.
Emerson's Asset Optimization offering combines services and technologies to improve availability and performance of production assets. It takes advantage of the
PlantWeb® digital plant architecture to automate the flow of information on asset reliability and performance to the people who run the business.
About Emerson Process Management
Emerson Process Management, an Emerson business, is a leader
in helping businesses automate their production, processing and distribution in the refining,
chemical, oil and gas, pulp & paper, power, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and other industries. The company combines superior products and technology with industry-specific engineering,
consulting, project management, and maintenance services. Emerson brands PlantWeb®, Fisher®, Micro Motion®, Rosemount®, Daniel®, DeltaV™, Ovation®, and AMS™ Suite.
About Emerson
St. Louis-based
Emerson is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions to customers in process control; electronics and
telecommunications; industrial automation; heating, ventilating and air conditioning; and
appliances and tools. Sales in fiscal 2002 were $13.8 billion.
PlantWeb, Fisher, Micro Motion, Rosemount,
DeltaV, Ovation and AMS are trademarks of Emerson Process Management.
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