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Instrumentation in the oil and gas industry is an exciting and ever changing trade which utilizes leading edge technologies to control and measure process conditions in the most accurate, reliable and safest ways possible. This course applies fundamental instrumentation and control engineering principles to oil and gas facilities design and operation and is designed for Facilities Engineers with or without a background in instrumentation or control engineering.

The course is also designed to accelerate the development of new facilities Instrumentation and Control Engineers. Through the use of individual and group problem solving, the candidates will learn about field measurement devices, final elements and actuators, pressure relief and regulation, documentation, programmable logic controllers, power supplies, SCADA, DCS, SIS, hazardous areas, and installation methods. The candidates will gain a better understanding of instrumentation and control components and systems and will gain a greater appreciation for instrumentation and control engineering.

At the end of this seminar participants will be able to:

· Field measurement devices including level, pressure, temperature and flow

· Final elements and actuators including control loops, control valves, shutdown valves, actuators, transducers

· Pressure relief and pressure regulation

· How to document instrumentation including tag numbers, P&IDs, loop and logic diagrams

· Process control basics with emphasis on control loops, types, strategies, and loop tuning

· How programmable logic controllers operate as well as their advantages, application, functionality, architecture, and programming

· Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems to include telemetry, RTUs, internet and web based

· Distributed Control Systems (DCS) including Fieldbus and Profibus

· Risk mitigation, technologies, and architecture of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)

· The best practices for hazardous areas and equipment selection which will include area classification, NEC, IEC, equipment protection, selection, certification, location, and ingress

Facilities and Project Engineers as well as newly graduated Electrical, Controls and Instrument Engineers who need to improve their basic understanding of instrumentation and control systems within oil and gas facilities, Operators, Technicians, anyone with an interest in gaining knowledge on the full range of instrumentation, process control, PLCs, SCADA and P&ID documentation, and engineers from other backgrounds/disciplines, such as mechanical, electrical and civil

• Fundamentals
• Overview of instrumentation and control
• Key building blocks of PLCs and SCADA systems
• Introduction to process measurement
• Basic measurement concepts
• Definition of terminology
• Measuring instruments and control valves as part of the overall control system
• Field measurement devices
• Final elements and actuators
• Principle of pressure measurement
• Pressure transducers and elements
• Pressure relief and pressure regulation
• Instrumentation documentation
• Control system basics
• Programmable logic controllers (PLC)
• Fundamentals of PLC
• Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems
• Comparison of SCADA, DCS, PLC and smart instruments
• Typical SCADA installations
• Definition of terms
• Distributed control systems (DCS)
• Distributed Control System Reporting
• Distributed Control System Configuration
• Maintenance Considerations
• Typical Distributed Control Systems and SCADA Systems
• Distributed Control System Applications
• Distributed Control Systems Implementation
• Safety instrumented system (SIS)
• Hazardous areas and equipment selection