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MENA News

DECEMBER 2011

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ContentsFrom The President’s Desk 2

Significant Orders 3

Delivery Update 5

Feather In The Cap 7

OpsManage 8

Invensys in the News 10

Snapshots 11

From the President’s Desk

We have had a very busy 3rd Quarter with the annual STRAP and Operating Plan (AOP) exercise as well as a number of customer contact events including a very successful OpsManage in Abu Dhabi. We have also had the pleasure of our CEO, Wayne Edmunds, visiting the region and interacting with many of our colleagues in Dubai. Harald Konermann and Dr. Mohamed Farouk had also visited the Dubai office in November as part of the Delivery leadership transition and addressed a townhall meeting.

During the past few months, I have been meeting many employees, in groups over a meal, as part of my employee engagement drive and my leadership team has been replicating the same around the region. I believe that this is a very effective medium for knowledge and experience sharing as well as getting some valuable feedback from all our colleagues.

We continue to achieve many milestones in our existing projects while winning a number of new ones. All credit goes to the teams involved. Many of these have been highlighted in this newsletter. I urge each of you to ensure that all your good work is being shared through newsletters and success stories. These are very valuable tools for us in future customer interactions in addition to being a medium to share best practices.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a very Happy New Year.

Sincerely,

Franco M. Restelli

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Significant Orders

FBM Upgrade Works in RRD, Takreer

This project involves the upgrade of 100 series FBM’S to 200 series FBM’S. This fast-track project including engineering, procurement and delivery is scheduled to be completed in 12 weeks.

This upgrade project covers the areas of Hydro skimmer and Hydro cracker units of the refinery. Invensys successfully commissioned a similar upgrade works in RRD, Ruwais for another area of the plant known as Condensate units. The timely execution and fault less performance of the works last year resulted in a bigger repeat order of higher magnitude. During the refinery turn around schedule of Feb to April 2012, the new FBM 200 series system cabinets will be installed and commissioned.

- BV Krishna

Invensys Wins 3 Year Customer First SLA Order from ADCO in UAE

Invensys has won a 3 year Customer First SLA order from ADCO, Abu Dhabi for maintenance support for it’s Bu-Hasa, Jebel Dhana and Sahil facilities. This envisages Standard Tier CF support for IA DCS,IA SCADA and Triconex systems installed

at 3 ADCO facilities. This success is a result of tireless efforts of several months by Invensys team to instill customer confidence for providing full range support for their installed systems. The systems are of different versions and require expert care for life cycle support. Congratulations to the team comprising of Ashok Sharma, Zuhair Rayyan, Saleh Saadeh, Sayed Hemdan and supported by Victor Jose from proposals team.

- Ashok Sharma

ORYX GTL Customer First Order in Qatar

Invensys has been awarded the Customer First SLA order from Oryx GTL, Qatar for supporting IA and Triconex systems at its Ras Laffan facility. This is a 3 year contract which will go up to July, 2014. This is a testimony of customer confidence in Invensys for providing full range support for their installed Invensys systems. The customer signed for Premium Tier – Customer First contract after several months of discussions and negotiations understanding the value proposition.

The order scope includes core support, scheduled preventive maintenance visits,

spare parts management & on-call emergency services for IA DCS and Triconex systems. Oryx GTL is a joint venture of QP with SASOL, South Africa and is a leading player in GTL domain.

This win is a result of several months of team work and close coordination of Invensys team comprising of Ashok Sharma, Mohsen Sorour, Jacob George, and Zaheer Abbas (Jaidah Motor’s) and supported by Victor Jose from proposal team.

- Ashok Sharma

KOC Awards Customer First Contract for East & West Kuwait Facilities

KOC (Kuwait Oil Company) awarded a new 5 year Customer First “Premium Tier” support contract. This contract covers GC2, GC11 and TSU facilities in East Kuwait and MWIP,GC27 and GC28 facilities in West Kuwait. This is big success for Invensys as it has significant scope for expansion and opens guaranteed revenue stream for 5 years (till 2016). The contract envisages support for I/A DCS and Triconex systems at these facilities and also provides a framework for providing any additional on-site or engineering services to KOC.

This win is a result of several months of concerted efforts by sales and delivery team and deeper customer engagement. By closely working with the customer, we were able to combine East & West Kuwait facilities in a single contract which provides great value to them for cost effective maintenance of their installed systems.

The team members for this pursuit are Sukdeb Chatterjee, Ashok Sharma, Ashley Vaz, Ajay Tathgir, and Victor Jose.

- Ashok Sharma

Order Highlights• GulfSpic DCS and ESD system

order for the new FRGU unit in KNPC (Kuwait National Petroleum Company) MAA

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Takreer NCR Project FAT and IFAT Completed

Takreer NCR project FAT (Factory Acceptance Test) & IFAT was successfully completed last month surpassing multiple challenges. The project involves the upgrade of the refinery control system comprising of DCS (Distributed Control Systems), ESD (Emergency Shutdown) and third party interfaces and subsequently relocate the operations of the refinery to the newly built central control room for ADNOC, Takreer Ruwais Refinery. The new control room (NCR) will work as an integrated refinery control and management centre comprising of all the existing refinery process units along with new additions.

Congratulations to the Project team - Pravin Chaudhari, Waleed Wadi, Senthilkumar, Belal Sayed, Nilesh Warule, Manish Madne, Tamer Awad, Omar Sharar and B V Krishna, Deepak Shanbhag, Elias Hanna and Ayed Salem.

- Sanjay Prabhu

Takreer-LPG Dehydration Project

LPG Dehydration project was successfully completed in the month of October. Project included DCS & ESD system for the new LPG dehydration units at Takreer Ruwais Refinery. Congratulations to the team including Waleed Wadi, Belal Sayed, Alber Shokry, Tamer Awad & Kamel Kherif

- Sanjay Prabhu

Delivery Highlights:• The Berry Gas Triconex ESD Upgrade project has been successfully

completed. Thanks to the project team comprising of A. Renugopan, George Melico and George Thomas

• KNPC GPCR upgrade, Unit 32 FAT completed• Testing for Manifa Core Hydrocarbon Package (Saipem) including all

integration testing with sub-systems and other package interfaces are completely successfully

Delivery Update

Invensys Infusion SCADA and Foxboro RTUs in Saudi Aramco Restricted Vendors List

Invensys Infusion SCADA and new Foxboro RTUs (Remote Terminal Unit) were successfully tested by the Saudi Aramco team in Dubai last month. This has resulted in acceptance of these 2 products into the Restricted Vendors List (RVL).

Before the recently conducted test, Foxboro legacy Unix SCADA and Foxboro SCD 5200 have been in the Saudi Aramco RVL, however due to evolving market needs, these products have either become obsolete or lack certain features. The successful testing means that Invensys can participate in future Saudi Aramco projects in addition to getting extra evaluation credit points from other strategic end users like Saudi Electricity Company, Ministry of Water, Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC).

All credit for this success goes to the technical core team for swiftly implementing required software patches and fixing bugs, management team for their leadership, delivery organization and the supply chain team for their support in the testing process. Hearty congratulations to Fadi Suliman, Ayed Salem, Chris Smith, Patrizia Fiorentini, Hatem Maarouf, Massimo Salusti and Nahidh Elshaer.

- Nahid Elshaer

RasGas Workstation Demo Successfully Completed

The Invensys team has successfully completed demo testing for RasGas Workstation Upgrade project. This demo was an initiative to support our commitment on support of legacy stations, elimination of multicast on the Nodebus and compatibility amongst our latest hardware and software.

The demo testing faced a very challenging timeline – it had to be setup 2 weeks prior to customer arrival in addition to a very challenging scope – support of legacy I/A solutions on I/A V.8.6. The testing went off very well and we received very positive comments from the customer and the fact that we have been invited for an immediate site study is testimony to this.

All credit goes to the team comprising of Irma Aguilar, Waleed Wadi, Glen Bounds, Jay Abdallah, Mohsen Sorour, Fadi Sulaiman, Mike Cepalo, Yusuf Kapadia, Deepak Shanbhag, Srinivas Gatram and Ravikant Chaudhari.

- Waleed Wadi

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Feather in the Cap

Irma Aguilar - DCS Mesh Project, RasGas

“….note of appreciation for the excellent efforts by Invensys engineer, Irma Aguilar, during the recent configuration work performed on DCS MESH switches installed in RG systems, laud the high degree of professionalism exhibited by your engineer by diligent planning, execution and quality reporting.”

- Kuruvilla Philip, Head (Control Automation), RasGas Company Limited

OpsManage ’11 WinnersFor their stellar contribution to the customer invitation process, we are proud to announce the winners:• Jayesh Tanna• Nahid Elshaer• Wael Konsowa

They will all be awarded an iPad2, hearty congratulations!

OpsManage’11 Abu DhabiThe Middle East and North Africa region hosted their leg of the OpsManage’11 series of conferences on November 20 and 21 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The conference –cum- expo attracted 300 delegates from customers and partners including ADNOC, Saudi Aramco, RasGas, Equate, United Gas Derivates Company (UGDC) and Petroleum Development Oman (PDO). The event followed the format of keynote sessions in the morning followed by focused breakout sessions in the afternoon. The expo area showcased live demos including Invensys latest offerings to the Industry and a number of ecosystem partner booths.

Keynote speeches were also delivered by Dr Ali Ferling, MD - Global Oil & Gas and Mining Industries, Microsoft and Dipankar Das from Accenture talking about the latest Information Technology trends and showcasing Invensys’ expanding ecosystem and partner base.

The event featured 7 keynote sessions, 24 breakout tracks and 15 expo booths and garnered very good feedback from attendees.

OpsManage

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Invensys Leading Exhibitor at Middle East Process Engineering Conference

Invensys Operations Management was recognized with the Best Booth award at the recently concluded Middle East Process Engineering Conference in Bahrain. This exhibition cum conference held between October 23 and 26 was a major international forum for discussion and exchange of practical experience in all aspects of process engineering issues related to the process industry and attracted the leading Oil and Gas players in the region. Invensys exhibited their portfolio for Operations Management offerings including Pro II, EYESIM, Operator Training Simulator, Manufacturing Execution Systems and Romeo.

The Minister of Energy, Kingdom of Bahrain – Dr Abdul Hussain Mirza visited the Invensys booth during the inauguration and was quite impressed by the EYESIM immersive training system. The exhibition also saw the formal launch of Romeo 6.0 Online performance suite.

MULTAQA 2011 (FFMEC)

The Multaqa Conference and Exhibition was successfully organized by the Fieldbus Foundation End User- Council (Middle East) on December 12 and 13 in Abu Dhabi. The Conference aimed at introducing the concepts of Foundation Fieldbus, as well as showcasing the latest advances in applications. The event format is a blend of presentations and vendor-neutral demonstrations. The conference was well attended by over 100 customers from various industries and a host of vendor companies. The Invensys booth was visited by a number of customers who were keen to understand our developments, installed base and road maps in digital field bus technologies.

Invensys in the news

Invensys: The Benefits of Refinery Simulationhttp://www.arabianoilandgas.com/article-9300-invensys-the-benefits-of-refinery-simulation/

Invensys to Implement IRIS System for SATORPhttp://www.arabianoilandgas.com/article-9552-invensys-to-implement-iris-system-for-satorp/

Integrated Refinery Solutions Gaining Groundhttp://www.oilreviewmiddleeast.com/informationtechnology/869-integrated-refinery-solutions-gaining-ground.html

Invensys Fiscal First Half Aided by Operations Managementhttp://www.managingautomation.com/maonline/exclusive/read/Invensys_Fiscal_First_Half_Aided_by_Operations_Management_261646

Virtual Reality can Address the Skills Crisishttp://www.instrumentation.co.za/article.aspx?pklarticleid=7292

Invensys Wins Haramain Signalling Contracthttp://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-14588-invensys-wins-haramain-signalling-contract/

INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY

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INVENSYSInvensys calls this an ‘immersive virtual reality training system’, which

works by linking up control room operators to fi eld operators and mainte-nance operators with a high-fi delity process simulation and virtual walk-

through plant environment.Development on the project started in 2009, and the fi nished product pro-

vides complete plant crew training to improve skills that are safety-critical, by enabling operators to perform tasks in a simulated environment, allow-ing them to react quickly and correctly, facilitating reactions in high stress conditions, and instilling standards for team training and communications.

“You can really interact with the plant, and train people in the fi eld for startups, shutdowns, safety, security, malfunctions and maintenance,” says Maurizio Rovaglio, Vice President and Business Head for Advanced Appli-cations & Software, and the software’s inventor.

“The key idea was to link this kind of 3D and virtual reality to the simula-tion, so becoming a virtual plant. If you open a valve, for example, or do any type of activity or interaction, you can see the reaction of the system, and the control room and operator are on exactly the same page.”

“We are at the moment the only one on the market doing this solution. It’s the link of the regular simulation environment with virtual reality – that’s really what we believe is unique.”

This was perhaps some of the biggest headline news in the power generation industry in the last 12 months – a Siemens SGT5-8000H turbine achieved a world-record level of effi ciency of more than 60

per cent during a test phase, with an output of more than 578 megawatts. The new turbine is designed for 400 megawatts in simple cycle duty and

600 megawatts in combined cycle, and in testing proved that more than 500 megawatts could be put online in 30 minutes, enabling stable load gradients of 35 megawatts per minute to be run.

“Our trail-blazing power plant with this gas turbine in the highest effi -ciency class shows that climate protection and low-cost power generation using fossil fuels can go hand in hand,” says Michael Suess, CEO of Siemens Energy Sector. “The new generation of our combined cycle power plants, for example, consumes one-third less natural gas per kilowatt-hour generated than the average for the combined cycle plants currently installed world-wide. At the same time, CO2 emissions also drop by a third.”

More than 750 Siemens employees, including 250 engineers were involved in the development of the new gas turbine and combined cycle plant, and the fi rm invested more than EUR500 million in turbine develop-ment and in the construction and operation of a prototype plant in Irsching, Bavaria. The turbine was tested for a year and a half at the plant, and in mid-2009 was extended to form a combined-cycle facility by adding a bottoming steam cycle, with a Siemens heat recovery steam generator and a Siemens high-temperature steam turbine operating at 600 degrees Celsius in order to create the most effi cient combined cycle plant in the world.

SIEMENS

PRODUCT: SGT5-8000HSECTOR: POWER GENERATION

PRODUCT: EYESIMSECTOR: PLANT PROCESS SIMULATION

Technological advances are enticing plant owners to outsource their mission-critical maintenance activities

Running downstream facilities pro tably and at high operating rates requires ongoing and continuous monitoring and

maintenance, as downtime means interruption of the whole production chain, which ultimately affects end users.

Checking plants regularly is key to avoiding production outages. “Three elements must harmoniously work together to enable safe and pro table production at

any downstream plant: well-maintained equipment, properly con gured and managed automation and information systems, and competent, alert, and motivated operators,” says Eddie Habibi, founder and chief executive of cer, PAS.

Ongoing monitoring of the health of plant equipment in real-time is essential to achieving operational excellence. Many top-tier hydrocarbon processing companies recognise this fact and have put in place

QUICK FIXES rigorous asset management programmes to ensure the health of their processing equipment. “Maintenance is a combination of all technical and administrative actions, including supervisory actions, intended to retain an item in, or restore it to, a state in which it can perform the stated function,” says Johan Brenner, chief operating of cer at Borouge. “The goal of maintenance strategy is to achieve optimum equipment reliability and availability,” he adds.

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Refining & Petrochemicals Middle East December 2011 www.arabianoilandgas.com

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Refining and Petrochemicals ME Maintenance and Shutdown Feature

Utilities Middle East EYESIM

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Snapshots

Invensys CEO Wayne Edmunds visits Dubai office

Spirit Week

Egypt Dubai

SABIC – Al Bayroni Reliability Exhibition Day

Thank you

A big thank you to all our contributors:

• Ali Makhlouf

• Ashok Sharma

• Basheer Shariff

• B V Krishna

• Liza Bagsit

• Mike Cepalo

• Nabil Kharbotli

• Nahid Elshaer

• Sanjay Prabhu

• Sukdeb Chatterjee

• Waleed Wadi

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