Oil Tank Farm and Boosting Station
Date of Contract: April, 1999 Handover Date: November, 1999 Contract Value: 280.000. -USD
Employer:
Arab Petroleum Company (SUMED), Ain Sughna - Egypt
Nature of the Work
On the bank of the Red Sea at Ain-Sughna, the SUMED installation consists of 10 tanks and 10 pump stations which pump the oil from the filled tanks to the Mediterranean Sea through a 320 km pipeline. The dispatch center controls the complete boosting stations.
The main dispatch center in Ain-Sughna on the Red Sea is the operational center for the complete operation of transporting the 117 million tons of petrol per year. The four factory link SCADA systems are used for all the reporting and the monitoring of the totality of events.