CSS Offshore:

High-availability and safety control solution for offshore platforms

With over 30 years of experience in the Oil and Gas sector, Altus brings the expertise and advanced technology needed to deliver a customized Control and Safety System (CSS) for offshore platforms.

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Automated processes with the Control and Safety System (CSS)

The CSS consists of three key subsystems: control and monitoring of production and utilities, emergency shutdown (ESD), and fire and gas detection.

In natural gas export processes, the CSS manages pressure, temperature, and flow measurements, while also overseeing equipment like PIG launchers and receivers, heat exchangers, flow computers, control and safety valves, and the chemical injection of ethanol into the export pipeline of each FPSO.

Discover the main features of the
Altus Control and Security System:

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High availability

Each automated system includes two PLCs running in a high-availability hot standby topology. If the primary CPU becomes unavailable, the standby unit takes control, ensuring continuous operation

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Enhanced performance

The system offers control convergence, a user-friendly interface, real-time graphical reports, seamless integration with corporate systems, modern and versatile technology, and high redundancy with hot-swappable modules

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Automated process modules

The CSS manages subsea equipment control, oil separation and treatment, gas dehydration and compression, power generation, sulfate removal from water, water injection, oil offloading, and natural gas export from the platforms

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Distributed systems

This high-availability system uses thousands of I/O points spread across conventional or pressurized remote panels, interconnected with process module instrumentation through PROFIBUS-DP and HART field networks

Services and equipment provided with the
Altus Control and Security System:

Services included with the CSS

– Comprehensive project design, detailed engineering, development of controller logic, and screen layouts for supervision

– Preparation of technical documentation and manuals

– Design of controller panels, remote I/O panels, server panels, and operator stations

– Development of controller applications using MasterTool IEC XE programming software

– Creation of SCADA interface screens with Wonderware InTouch® software

– Integration with package systems, instrumentation, and field equipment, as well as fiber optic splicing

– Training on products, maintenance, engineering, and CSS operation

– Configuration and integration of asset management systems

– Onshore and Offshore commissioning at the shipyard, and assisted operation

Equipment included with the CSS

– Pressurized remote I/O panels for installation in process modules (hazardous zones)

– Remote I/O panels for indoor environments (control rooms or engine rooms)

– Control panel

– Server panel, network switches, and operator stations

– Engineering station and two printers

– Fiber optic cables (two-pair)

– Fiber optic cables (three-pair)

Garantia de desempenho e alta disponibilidade com os Controladores Programáveis da Série NX

Modernos e de alta velocidade os controladores NX utilizam tecnologia de ponta para proporcionar confiabilidade e conectividade, contribuindo para o aumento de produtividade do seu negócio. Integrando funções presentes em Sistemas Distribuídos de Controle de Processos (SDCDs), a série conta com recursos avançados como troca a quente, redundância de CPU, capacidade de expansão de módulos E/S e arquitetura escalar baseada em Ethernet determinística, para todas as etapas do ciclo de vida de uma aplicação.

Para aplicações que não podem parar, como sistemas de O&G, Açúcar & Etanol, Siderurgia, entre outros, a Série NX conta com suporte a redundância de CPU, recurso que praticamente eliminam a necessidade de parada do sistema para manutenção.

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Featured Projects

Pre-salt replicating platforms

Altus was hired to develop the control system for different subsystems of the replicating platforms. The platforms developed are FPSOs (Floating Production Storage and Offloading), a vessel responsible for the exploration, production and temporary storage of oil. Production is transported by relief vessels, eliminating the need for pipeline connections. All these specific characteristics require sophisticated and safe automation and control systems that integrate oil production processes, fire and gas detection, emergency shutdown, among others.
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Featured Projects

P-58 and P-62 FPSOs

The Altus engineering team was hired by Petrobras to develop the system responsible for controlling the exploration and production processes of the P-58 and P-62 platforms, the company's first Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO). Hired in 2011 to develop the Control and Safety System (CSS) of the P-58 and P-62 platforms, Altus was responsible for this automation system that controls 05 subsystems for Control and monitoring of production and utilities, Shutdown, Fire Fighting, Hull and Hull Shutdown.
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