Case Study: Premier Oil achieves 100% reliable alarm management with ProcessVue

ProcessVue alarm management is 100% reliable at Premier Oil

Premier Oil, an oil and gas exploration and production company, faced a challenge with an unreliable alarm and sequence of events system at its Balmoral floating production vessel. Their previous system experienced frequent outages, which was a significant risk for the safety-critical plant equipped with thousands of instruments. They needed a 100% reliable solution to continuously log data to ensure traceability and enable quick root cause analysis for any plant upsets.

By implementing ProcessVue alarm management software from MAC Solutions, Premier Oil replaced its outdated system. The installation and commissioning were completed within a tight three-day window. The ProcessVue solution provided a highly reliable and user-friendly platform that integrated data from six disparate sub-systems. The results included zero software outages since installation, the ability to manage 30,000 monthly alarms, and enhanced analytical capabilities through the ProcessVue Analyser module to identify and filter nuisance alarms, allowing staff to focus on critical events.

Premier Oil

Lee Hanlon

Instrument and Controls Engineer