Further technological advancements make it possible to build huge infrastructure which increases productivity while ensuring the safety and quality.

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1 Issue 4, 2014 Dear Reader, Oi and Gas (O&G) comprising crude oi, petroeum products and refineries is one of the core sectors of the India economy. It pays a significant roe in the country's economic deveopment as we as in addressing its energy concerns. The Indian O&G sector is projected to touch US $ 139,814.7 miion by 2015 from US $ 117,562.9 miion in 2012, thereby, providing vast business and investment opportunities in its entire vaue chain. The growing energy demand presents opportunities ike exporation for domestic production growth, deveopment of discovered fieds, transportation of crude oi, gas and products, refining to service the petroeum product demand and retaiing infrastructure. To meet India's growing demand for hydrocarbon, it is vita to have in pace infrastructure such as import terminas, pipeines, intermediate storage terminas, etc. from source to consumers. The Indian government has earmarked US $ 5 biion in the Hydrocarbon Vision 2025 to faciitate the growing demand of the pipeine and termina sectors. On account of increased activities in exporation, refining and transportation of O&G, safety concerns have become a critica factor. To prevent recurrence of incidences ike the fire tragedy at IOCL Jaipur, the industry is working on M.B. La Committee recommendations. Some of its key recommendations pertaining to enhancing automation eve, security and surveiance system, emergency shutdown system, remote operation etc. are being impemented. Further technoogica advancements make it possibe to buid huge infrastructure which increases productivity whie ensuring the safety and quaity. We at C&A are fuy geared to support the Indian O&G sector in its efforts to become a word payer in the automation space. Our expertise spans commissioning of more than 25 terminas and over KM pipeines in India and abroad, couped with competencies in Drives, Instrumentation, Contro System, SCADA, Safety System and MIS. This issue's cover story highights the benefits of moving SCADA appication to a coud-based environment which can significanty cut costs whie increasing reiabiity and scaabiity. Enhancing productivity and safety, eiminating human errors and repetitive tasks, saving time, etc. are some of the key factors in Termina Automation. The case study section features just one out of the many successfu projects we have handed - Termina Automation System at HPCL. Our parent company - Larsen & Toubro is uniquey positioned as a key contributor to the Indian O&G sector's sustainabe growth. By continuay partnering with oi companies, we deveop and provide technoogy soutions to these companies for growing their business profitaby. Wishing you continued success during 2014 and hoping that our association yieds vaue to India's growth story. Happy Reading! Sandeep Bhat

2 Leveraging the coud for SCADA Moving SCADA appications to the coud can enhance Reiabiity and Scaabiity whie cutting costs significanty Coud computing is becoming more common and most desirabe technoogy in communication environment where computing resources such as hardware or/and software are processed as service over networks. With coud computing, one can eiminate the pain of managing one's hardware and software. Businesses are running a kinds of apps in the coud, ike customer reationship management (CRM), HR, accounting, and much more. The Coud environment provides high scaabiity with the abiity to react to on-demand resource requirements in near reatime, fast and easy depoyment of new appications, increased responsiveness and ower overa cost to the business. As coud computing grows in popuarity, companies are evauating the appicabiity of coud-based soutions for manufacturing and process contro systems. SCADA (supervisory contro and data acquisition) impementation within coud environment is reativey new and drawing attention. By moving SCADA infrastructure to a coud-based environment, it can save companies money and time by eiminating the need for buiding and maintaining their own dedicated server rooms, whie reducing SCADA administration costs and overa risks. In addition, users can significanty achieve greater reiabiity and enhanced functionaity. Cients can get fu access for customisation of their own SCADA appication. A data is housed in a database historian within the Figure 1 coud. As needs evove, the system can be fuy convertibe at any point in the future to a traditionay-hosted soution on a visuaization, reporting, and access to remote users. These company's dedicated servers. appications are commony impemented using pubic coud infrastructures. Coud computing can support SCADA appications in two ways: The impementation iustrated in Figure 2 is common to The SCADA appication is run ocay, directy connected to the distributed SCADA appications where a singe, oca SCADA contro network and deivers information to the coud where it depoyment is not practica. The controers are connected via WAN can be stored and disseminated, or inks to the SCADA appication running entirey in the coud. These The SCADA appication is run entirey in the coud and remotey appications are commony impemented using private or hybrid connected to the contro network. coud architectures. The first method is by far the most common and is iustrated in Figure 1. The contro functions of the SCADA appication are Typica Appications.. Utiity ( Eectricity, Water & Gas) SCADA entirey isoated to the contro network. However, the SCADA appication is connected to a service in the coud that provides 2 CAnvas - Issue 4 Automatic Meter Reading

3 Buiding Management System Renewabe ( Soar, Wind, Sma Hydro Pant) Asset Management / Condition Monitoring Benefits of coud computing for SCADA High efficiency - Coud is based on custering and virtuaization, offer high efficiency and high utiization due to the sharing of pooed resources, enabing better workoad baancing across mutipe appications High avaiabiity Another benefit of custering is that appications can take advantage of a high avaiabiity architecture that minimizes or eiminates panned and unpanned downtime, improving user service eves and business continuity On-demand resources Users are abe to add resources on demand as and when needed with no downtime Fast depoyment -- With ready, standard, reusabe and shared IT backbone, appication depoyment is greaty acceerated and new appication can be run in a few minutes Ease to Maintain As it centray managed, it becomes easy to manage updates and patches, and provides testing advantages through the abiity to cone machines Figure 2 3

4 Integrated soution for Oi & Gas Contro & Automation (C&A) business of L&T Eectrica & Automation offers integrated automation, teecommunication, eectrica and instrumentation systems for Oi & Gas (upstream, mid & downstream) encompassing tota soutions right from input power suppy to the ast fied instrument. It deivers vaue from its big bouquet of soutions that are based on different technoogy patforms and incorporate the benefits of wide ranging experience. The soutions for Oi & Gas portfoio covers: 1. E, C&I Soution for Terminas C&A undertakes turnkey execution for oading/unoading terminas, aong with specific requirements of F&G and ESD operation. Packages are taiored to meet the specific needs of the cients. The Integrated Termina Soution deivers vaue from conception to impementation and operation for distribution and buk terminas, such as refinery off-sites, fue storage and distribution sites, petrochemica storage, oading faciities and marine, rai and truck oading. Our termina and tank farm experience incudes products such as crude oi, refined oi, iquefied natura gas, petroeum gas and chemica tank farms, utiizing oading systems for ships, trains, trucks and pipeines. With data integration as the system's core, ivision -I-TAS management functions combines automatic contro and business Our offering comprises: ivision -I-TAS - Termina Automation Software - Highy scaabe, configurabe, reiabe with 99.99% of time. Termina Security and Access Contro Instruments for Tank Measurement incuding radar eve transmitters, pressure / temperature transmitters, Mass fow meters, Gauges, etc. Accurate Fow measurement for custody transfer. Loading Arms, Batch Controers, Card Readers, Earthing Reays Remote Vave contro TUV Certified PLC system Hydrocarbon Gas detectors (HC, H2,H2S) with fire aarm pane. Compete Integrated soution by integrating various subsystems Variabe Speed Drives for fow contro. Eectrica Power Distribution System incuding MCCs

5 5 Perimeter Intrusion detection system. CCTV system for compete termina monitoring Lifecyce Services incuding system upgrades and ong term AMC contract. 2. Integrated Teecom & Automation soution for Cross Country Pipeines Cross country pipeine is a compex ecosystem requiring diverse technoogy soutions and services for different operations. This invariaby resuts in depoyment of separate information systems for a given operation. For enhancing the efficiency, one has to take into consideration a this information in rea time. 3. Eectrica Contro System. C&A is one of the argest integrators of soutions for pipeines. Having executed over 18,000 Km of pipeines in India and abroad, C&A is one stop soution for Oi and Gas pipeines incuding Pump and Bock vave stations. Our vaue services range from providing top notch pipeine management soutions comprising eectrica, automation equipment and inteigent instrumentation. Our soutions offer scaabiity and high avaiabiity, from singenode instaations to muti-tier systems. Security is at the centre of our soutions with state-of-the-art features aong with sophisticated front-end communications, geographica redundant configurations and automatic switchover. Our Offering Comprises: Pipeine SCADA Software ivision SCADA for monitoring of the Pipeine Leak Detection System. Turnkey Instrumentation Safety PLC for ESD/ Shutdown Operation Entire Pipeine Modeing Fire and Gas System incuding Gas detectors Communication system between outstation and contro room. Management Information System Teecom system incuding EPBAX and PAGA Surveiance System Perimeter Intrusion detection system. Lifecyce Services incuding system upgrades and ong term AMC contracts. Refineries need eectrica power which is sourced from utiities, captive power pants and renewabe energy systems. The emphasis is on efficient use of a such power sources aong with effective management of oads, power quaity and assets. ivision -PMS provides compete Power Management Soution (PMS) for cost effective and efficient energy utiization by maintaining continuous and reiabe operation, avoiding penaty in case imum demand is exceeded, improving power quaity, reducing maintenance cost, reducing manpower cost and thus increasing profitabiity in terms of ower production costs. For some refineries, costs constitute as much as 20-30% of tota operating costs and hence even a sma improvement in operationa efficiency can have a dramatic impact on its bottomine. ivision -PMS provides comprehensive information on optimization potentias and utiization parameters to be correated with KPIs viz., energy efficiency, production rates, process efficiency, power quaity, asset optimization and further supports the decision-making process with up-to-date information. Our offering comprises: Rea time Contro & Monitoring Synchronization and oad Energy accounting invoving group energy consumption tracking and saving Power Quaity Monitoring Asset Management Load Forecasting Economic Dispatch Avaiabiity Based Tariff Renewabe Integration and Generation Forecasting.

6 HPCL depoys Larsen & Toubro's Termina Automation Soution for argest back oi termina in Vizag Background Hindustan Petroeum Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) is a Government of India enterprise with a 'navratna' status, as we as a Fortune 500 and Forbes 2000 company. Its annua turnover during FY was Rs. 1,90,048 crore. It operates two major refineries producing a wide variety of petroeum fues and speciaties. The capacity of these refineries in Mumbai (West Coast) is 6.5 Miion Metric Tonnes Per Annum (MMTPA) and in Vishakapatnam (East Coast) 8.3 MMTPA respectivey. The Need Since the terminas are becoming more strategic than ever before, HPCL decided to deveop the modern back oi termina on a 38- acre pot of and within a record time of 15 months using a advanced project management techniques. The primary focus was on accuracy and avaiabiity of operation whie maintaining high safety and security standards at the storage terminas. HPCL paced the order to suppy and commission the Termina Automation System for Back oi Termina at Vizag with Contro & Automation (C&A) business unit of L&T Eectrica & Automation (EAIC), an independent company of Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T). The primary task was to compete design, engineering, suppy, instaation, testing and commissioning of Termina Automation Soution in ess than eight months to hande 94,000kL products ike FO-180/380/500, Bitumen, LVFO, FO Bend, LSHS, HFHSD, LDO, JBO and Lube Oi. This project had strategic importance as it has created space for Visakha Refinery expansion for the production of EURO IV grade fue (Diese Hydro Treatment Unit Project). The Soution The project goas were safe and efficient operation of the Termina whie at the same time reducing manua intervention and reducing poution and abour cost. HPCL chose to impement C&A's proven

7 7 Termina Automation soution comprising automation, fied instrumentation and safety systems. Competion of the project in a short period invoved deivering C&A's proven soutions the ivision -I-TAS SIL certified software with high eve of integrity aong with metering instruments ike DCV, Therma Jacketed Mass Fow Meter suitabe for back oi appication, Fire Aarm System, Weigh Bridge system for Mass Based oading, VFD Interface, Tank Body and Header Line Vave Automation etc. The system is buit around the ivision -I-TAS, an integrated patform, that automates and contros petroeum terminas for Tank Trucks, Wagons, Tubes for Back Oi. The soution heps to operate and contro a tota of 29 TLF oading points, 4 TW oading points and 33 product tanks from receiving to storage to distribution of different fues. With its user friendy Graphica User Interface, users can generate different reports ike tank trucks, product fiing and bay ide reports for the termina operators to monitor termina's efficiency. A range of technoogies suppied to the BOT termina comprise: the ivision -I-TAS and termina management system Tank eve gauges, Pressure Transmitters, Truck oading metering and contro system. SIL 3 certified Shutdown System Fire & Gas systems Industria security with access contro soutions, CCTV and Digita Video Manager Access Contro System, Fire Aarm System: Benefits The ivision -I-TAS soutions have enhanced HPCL's efficiency by reducing operationa time whie maintaining a safe and heathy environment. A the termina operations incuding MOV were fuy automated which has heped in improving the termina's efficiency. Post HPCL's inauguration of the termina on 20th September, 2010, it has been used to successfuy fi orries. On an average, the termina handes around 60 tank orries per day. C&A has so far deivered Termina Automation Soution at HPCL Back Oi Termina, LPG Termina at Vizag, White Oi Terminas at Ajmer and Jaipur which has heped these companies to increase the efficiency of their terminas with zero accidents reported so far. Certificate of appreciation from HPCL

8 to distribution. Receiving product from refinery and jetty and aso pumping product to Jetty and TT oading. What sort of chaenges wi the ivision -I-TAS system hep you to overcome? / Kindy te us in detai of the benefits you seek from Termina Automation System impemented? Mr. K V Sreenivas Raju - L&T's ivision -I-TAS is required to hep our various operations ike Tanker Truck Loading / Un Loading, Materia transfer and tracking, Inventory management, and ERP interface. It is required to improve operationa safety, accuracy, system optimization and overa efficiency by reducing manua intervention. L&T was seected by Hindustan Petroeum Corporation Limited (HPCL) to provide Termina Automation Soution for its new Back Oi Termina at Visakhapatnam. We spoke to Mr. K V Sreenivas Raju, Chief Manager - Projects, to capture their experience on L&T s Termina Automation soution as we as working with the L&T Team. Pease give us a brief about your company and back oi termina Operations Te us something about your experience with L&T Automation on this project Mr. K V Sreenivas Raju - We are satisfied with L&T s team performance and continued support, which heped us in achieving our project miestones. However L&T shoud continue to exce in providing dedicated team who have appication domain knowedge and has mature engineering capabiity that aid in accompishing our project objective of buiding efficient and secured Termina. Mr. K V Sreenivas Raju - Hindustan Petroeum Corporation Limited (HPCL) is an integrated oi refining and marketing company. In 2010 we setup a new termina at Visakhapatnam, which is argest excusive back oi termina in India with a product handing capacity of about 94,000kL. The termina has provision for oading product of customized needs of marketing to cater industries from eastern hub. What are your reasons to adopt an integrated termina automation system at BOT? Mr. K V Sreenivas Raju -- Terminas represent an important ink in the petroeum suppy chain. Back oi Termina project has strategic importance as it creates space for Visakha Refinery expansion for production of EURO IV grade fue (Diese Hydro Treatment Unit Project). To operate this Termina safey, and effectivey we decided to have Termina Automation System which provides rea-time monitoring, contro and management of the entire product handing process from receiving to storage This newsetter is being sent on behaf of Contro & Automation, Eectrica & Automation, Larsen & Toubro, If you wish to unsubscribe, You may aso send an e-mai to: cna-marcomm@lntebg.com The views expressed in this magazine are not necessariy those of the managment of Larsen & Toubro Limited. The contents of this magzine shoud not be reproduced without written permission from the company. Ony for circuation among the customers and business partners of Larsen & Toubro Group of Companies.