Offshore staff
ZURICH, Switzerland – ABB will supply Yinson with electrical, control, and telecommunication equipment and services onboard the FPSO Anna Nery.
Yinson is converting the vessel - a crude oil tanker built in 2002 - for a new 25-year lifespan as an FPSO on Petrobras’ Marlim 2 oil field in the Campos basin offshore Brazil.
ABB will use the ABB Ability System 800xA control system with select input/output (IO) for integrating all the production modules into a combined integrated safety and control system.
Select IO is an Ethernet-based, single-channel input output system under which field signals are digitally marshaled in ‘smart’ junction boxes. By using the company’s xStream engineering approach alongside digital marshaling, select IO will reduce project time, ABB said, allows the project team to de-couple the hardware and software tasks and fully standardize the cabinet design.
Cabinets can then be installed and terminated at a much earlier phase during construction.
ABB will perform all software engineering in a cloud-based system, bringing the hardware and software application together at a later point by means of Select IO digital marshaling.
This integration approach, the company claimed, improves the interface for topsides production, safety systems, marine systems, telecom packages, surveillance equipment and electrical systems.
07/06/2020
