Application: ESD with Marshalling

Installation Area: KårstØ, Haugesund, Norway

Client: MW Kellogg for Statoil

Contract Value: £1.25m


Hima-Sella was selected by contractor MW Kellogg, to design, engineer, build and test six separate safety shutdown systems which are now situated on a third gas processing train on this Statoil owned project. These Emergency Shutdown Systems comprise of Marshalling cabinets, HIMA Planar F solid state logic cabinets and HIMA HiQuad PLC system cabinets.

Planar F and HiQuad meet the safety standards of IEC 61508 & DIN V 19250. The PLC’s are programmed using the latest HIMA programming software package ELOP II, based on the requirements of IEC 61131-3. Each of these solutions is used to control the safety functions over vast areas of the Europipe II, Receiving Area, Propane, Ethane, Sales Gas and the larger Train 400 pipelines on the plant.

KUP involves the subsea and subterrainean transportation of oil and gas between the Karsto plant on the East coast of Norway and the Asgard Offshore oil field. The KUP Project was completed in early 2000 and Hima-Sella continues to have a number of similar safety and control system projects in hand, utilising the very latest in HIMA safety system technology.

The KårstØ Utbyggings Prosjekt (KUP) in Haugesund, Norway was one of the larger projects undertaken by Hima-Sella, at the time.

Please call our sales department on 0161 429 4500 or send an email to sales@hima-sella.co.uk if you require more technical information such as data sheets, or to discuss any application you may be considering.

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