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"The CygNet platform is far easier to manage than our previous system and will allow us to keep pace with the company's aggressive growth and the massive amounts of data we need to manage," said Joe Schmid, manager, SCADA at Energy Transfer. "We now have a single management console for all three pipelines and the opportunity to use CygNet to continue improving enterprise-wide business processes through capabilities such as remote asset management and improved data management."
Energy Transfer's Texas pipelines make up the largest intrastate system in the U.S. Energy Transfer also has natural gas pipeline operations in Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Utah. The company has more than 17,000 miles of pipeline in service, with approximately 750 miles of pipeline under construction. Two years ago, Schmid was hired by Energy Transfer to manage and improve the Houston Pipeline SCADA system. He'd used CygNet for nearly three years with his previous company and was very impressed with the platform's design and functionality, as well as with the CygNet engineering team. As a technical adviser for the Transwestern SCADA transition, Schmid recommended CygNet. He then took the lead in implementing CygNet for Houston Pipeline. Cutover took place in January 2009.
"The SCADA system for Houston Pipeline dated back to the 1990s and involved numerous servers, applications, and interfaces for production and disaster recovery," added Schmid. "The applications came from different vendors, and some were even written by Enron programmers, so using and managing the system was cumbersome and very time-consuming. We completed the Houston Pipeline and Transwestern projects in just 14 months, which is a very aggressive timeframe and we were able to fit CygNet into our current business processes, so the deployment was not disruptive."
Other features of the CygNet platform that are important to Schmid include the high-availability infrastructure for gas control, easy-to-use system tools, the ability to manage data in bulk, data replication and validation checks, HMI templating, version management, and the use of standard protocols and drivers that enable the CygNet system to communicate with remote field devices from all the major vendors.
"Other benefits that are often not discussed include that CygNet has one core product, so everything rolls back into the same system," said Schmid. "Enhancements developed for one customer get incorporated into future releases, benefiting all customers. This isn't true with other vendors. On top of that, these benefits are reinforced with CygNet's strong and talented engineering team."
"CygNet is the oil and gas industry's most advanced platform for providing a unified information ecosystem," said Chris Smith, chief executive officer of CygNet Software. "It is also far easier to deploy and use than other systems. It provides enterprises with the ability to improve the management of the operational data they produce today, while creating a clear path to developing a complete system they need to consolidate data from every corner of the enterprise and provide actionable information to every person who needs it."
About CygNet Software
CygNet Software leads the oil and gas industry with a new generation of enterprise operations software and solutions. Designed to create an information ecosystem, CygNet's platform enables organizations to improve operational efficiency and market responsiveness, while complying with increasing regulatory initiatives. Already more than 100 customers involved in oil and gas production, and gas transportation -- including most of the top 10 major independent gas producers in North America -- rely on CygNet to collect, manage and distribute the vast amounts of diverse data produced across all facets of its enterprise operations. CygNet harnesses traditional silos of field, production and business data, allowing users across every business function to prioritize and analyze real-time information to support daily operations and strategic decision making.
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