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CNRL Selects Invensys To Supply Triconex Safety, Critical Control Systems At Horizon
Invensys was chosen as the preferred supplier to Canadian Natural for all emergency safety shutdown, boiler management and fire and gas safety systems throughout the Horizon project, one of the largest oil extraction projects in Alberta's Athabasca oilsands region.
Canadian Natural is building the project in three phases. For the Phase I, Invensys is supplying 38 latest-generation Tricon V10 TMR triple modular redundant (TMR) control systems.
The Triconex safety and critical control systems will be used to protect processes and business units within the Horizon project's bitumen extraction and upgrading facilities as well as in the cogeneration plant and several remote facilities.
In addition to Tricon safety and control systems, the Invensys direct purchasing agreement with Canadian Natural includes Triconex training, integration and installation services.
Canadian Natural is a senior independent oil and natural gas exploration, development and production company based in Calgary. Operations are focused in Western Canada, the North Sea and Offshore West Africa.
The Horizon project is designed as a phased development and includes the open pit mining of bitumen combined with an on-site upgrader.
Phase 1 production is planned to begin in the second half of 2008 at 110,000 bbls per day of 34 degrees API light, sweet synthetic crude oil (SCO). Phase 2 would increase production to 155,000 bbls per day of SCO in 2010. Phase 3 would further increase production to 232,000 bbls per day of SCO in 2012.
Headquartered in London, the Invensys Group is made up of five businesses: Process Systems, APV, Eurotherm, Rail Systems and Controls.
