The Fundamentals of SCADA Systems for the Oil & Gas Industry course will explore the history and evolution of SCADA systems, including the differences in the SCADA types and how they have evolved. The course will examine SCADA hardware components and how they work together. Attendees of this course will gain a comprehensive understanding of how SCADA systems work for the oil & gas industry, how and why they were developed, how they are structured, database and data collection techniques, and uses of the dynamic data by the end user.
There will be an explanation of the data flow from field, through RTU, to frontend processor, to the control room. We will examine how different telemetry points are processed; learn about analogs, status points, accumulators, and the different ways that they can be collected in field RTU for data exchange; scan rates; and protocols. The course will discuss how data can be processed for the end user, alarm processing, supervisory controls, processing logic in database, and putting it into the dynamic graphic user interface for end-to-end control and monitoring. We will explore the best data maintenance practices, such as maintaining the data standards, templates, creating the point list and checkout lists, performing point-to-point testing, and maintaining the quality assurance systems independent from productions where jobs are run first.
Learning Outcomes
- Review the history and evolution of SCADA systems for oil & gas and illustrate the basic hardware and software components
- Discuss protocols that are used to transmit, collect, store, and manage data
- Evaluate the increased need for cyber security for ICS
- Describe different instrumentation measurement technologies
- Review SCADA system architecture and explain the data flow from field to control room
- Identify alarm processing and supervisory control
Agenda
November 7, 2023
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. : CENTRAL TIME
SCADA History and Evolution
- By technological evolution
- Telemetry based SCADA
- Microprocessors – PLC
SCADA Types
- By market evolution
- Distributed
- Networked
SCADA Systems Components
Common SCADA Abbreviations
Typical Hardware SCADA Architecture
- Master administrator – data repository
- Communicator – data acquisition
- Front end processor – RTU
- Historian – data archiving
- Human Machine Interface – individual users
Typical System Division
- Primary system
- Backup system
- Training system
RTUs
- RTU protocol types
- RTU scans rates and options
- Field devices
- Upstream vs. midstream vs. downstream
Communications
- Topologies
- Communication media
- Data acquisition strategies
Network
- PCN
- Cloud
- Phones
- IT/OT
- Security
- Cyber
- Physical
SCADA Data Collection – Point Types and Uses
- Analog points (measurements)
- Limits
- Setpoints
- Digital points
- Accumulators (periodic collection)
- Meter collections
- Counter values
- Status points (indication and controls)
- Alarm processing
- Supervisory controls
Data Collection and Q&A Session
Course Adjourns for Day
November 8, 2023
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. : CENTRAL TIME
Review of Day 1
Data Management
Maintaining the Data and Designing a SCADA System
- Assets
- Field equipment
- Network
- Communications
- SCADA platform
- Data standards
- Engineering points list
- Naming convention
- Historian
- Reporting
- Regulations
- Best practices
- HMI
- Alarm rationalization
- Point to point
- Procedures
- Monitoring
- Control room
- Field notification
AI and Machine Learning
Course Concludes
Instructor
Carin Meyer, Regulation Compliance Program Specialist, Atmos International Inc
Carin Meyer has been working with Pipeline SCADA for 15 years. Ms. Meyer started with BP Pipelines in Tulsa Oklahoma as a SCADA Engineer and advanced to SCADA Team Lead. Carin has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Regis University, an MBA from Colorado Technical University, and a Master’s of Management IT – Project Management from Colorado Technical University. Ms. Meyer sits on several industry steering committees for SCADA Regulation, Leak Detection, and SCADA Cybersecurity. In addition to her current role, Carin speaks at industry conferences, is a technical SCADA instructor for continuing education, and consults for clients who benefit from her SCADA expertise.