Web based Reporting for FPSO

For a customer in the oil and gas sector Magion has built web-based production reports, providing unambiguous production data throughout the company. Both offshore as well as onshore customer staff can access the same reports to process production information into their daily routine.

Our customer operates a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) in the British sector of the North Sea. Production data is stored in an OSIsoft PI system offshore and synchronized to the onshore office. As bandwidth is limited on the North Sea, Magion has adopted specific technology for optimal synchronization. The request from our customer was to provide an application which allows staff throughout the company to access production data for overview and analysis purposes. The request was made for a number of reports, amongst which are a daily report, an allocation report, running hours report and a tank report.

Magion proposed to build a functional hierarchy into PI-AF, opening up the wealth of information contained within the data, in a structured manner. Furthermore Magion proposed to build the reports using web based technology, allowing access from anywhere within the secure company network. The benefit of this technology is that everyone is looking at the same data, preventing confusion which occurs if staff members use their own (for example Excel based) reporting tools. Whilst not strictly necessary due to the flexibility of the web based reports, export to PDF is still part of the functionality.

In building the application, Magion has used its own framework software. This framework allows for an efficient way of executing the various analyses as well as allowing for a smart way of presenting the data in the report. The challenge of this project was to ensure that all vital information was present on the reports before first oil. A close collaboration between customer staff and Magion engineers ensured that the PI-AF hierarchy was set up to reflect the situation of the actual production facility and the layout of the reports was practical and intuitive to use. The close collaboration was therefore proven again to be key to the success of this type of project.
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