| COMPANY: | Saudi Aramco |
| HEADQUARTERS: | Dhahran, Saudi Arabia |
| SIZE OF COMPANY: | More than 1,000 employees; more than $1B in revenue |
| INDUSTRY: | Oil and gas |
| PRIMARY PRODUCT LINE: | Crude oil production, refining and distribution, oil and gas processing and transportation installations |
| NAME OF PROJECT: | Plant Integration and modernization project |
| PROJECT OBJECTIVE: | To upgrade DCS interconnections to have better access to information; reduce maintenance and operating costs and improve reliability; simplify system architecture |
| TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED: | Integration Objects OPC-based integration solutions, Emerson PROVOX and DeltaV DCS, OSIsoft Data Historian |
| ACCOMPLISHMENTS/ROI: | Replaced a difficult interconnection architecture with a modern infrastructure based on standards such as OPC and Microsoft Windows; lowered operating costs; improved interconnect performance, reliability, and security; reduced operational budget by 15% with improved integration architecture |