Oil Wellheads and Pipelines
Use Case: Pressure monitoring at oil wellheads
— Monitoring oil pipe leakage with differential pressure transmitters
Challenges
— Difficulty in cabling work due to undeveloped terrain between monitoring points and control
— distances of up to 600 m
Solution
— Wireless pressure transmitters
ISA100 Wireless Benefits
— No long-distance cabling over undeveloped terrain.
— Long transmission range of up to 600 m.
Maintainability: no repeaters required in the field,
therefore no maintenance (e.g. battery replacement)
required in dangerous terrain.