Engineering Procurement Contractor GSEC of South Korea has awarded Invensys Process Systems a multimillion-dollar automation contract to provide an integrated process control, safety, asset management, and plant information system solution for the grassroots Laffan Refinery under construction at the Ras Laffan City in Qatar. 

Once operational in 2008, the refinery will process approximately 146,000 barrels per day of gas condensates from the adjacent QatarGas and RasGas LNG liquefaction facilities, making it one of the world’s largest condensate refineries.
Invensys’ broad scope of supply for the project will include Foxboro’s latest Mesh Control Network-based I/A Series process control system technology encompassing approximately 5,000 intelligent I/O points plus approximately 2,000 serial points integrated largely via OPC.
The company will also supply Triconex triple-modular-redundant (TMR) technology for both the safety instrumented system (SIS) and the fire and gas (F&G) protection systems
The contract includes the supply of Avantis.PRO maintenance management software integrated with the automation systems to help balance asset availability and utilisation.
Also available will be Invensys’ award-winning real-time equipment Condition Monitoring (CM) solution to facilitate highly effective predictive maintenance techniques and its advanced refinery and offsites applications for refinery order management and product movement monitoring, tank farm information, and movement line-up and execution.
Invensys will also supply third-party real-time plant database and production scheduling applications and associated engineering, integration, training, and site services