Customer Success Story - LUKOIL

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization
Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Applicable Industries

Oil & Gas

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing
Maintenance

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance
Process Control & Optimization

Services

System Integration
Software Design & Engineering Services

The Challenge

LUKOIL, a major international oil and gas company, was planning to build a new datacenter in its Moscow office. The company required an HMI/SCADA system that could provide maximum security and performance of datacenter utility systems while also ensuring high energy efficiency. The datacenter computer rooms were to include over 100 server racks, each designed with a capacity of 17kW of power. The company also required 24/7 control capability for its utility systems. LUKOIL wanted an HMI/SCADA system that could provide estimates for the datacenter rooms’ technological and climatic metrics and could quickly acquire status information for all nodes of power and cooling/air conditioning systems. As the planned datacenter was to include approximately 5,000 data points, LUKOIL sought an HMI/SCADA solution that easily centralizes functional mode management for utility systems.

About The Customer

LUKOIL, headquartered in Moscow, Russia, is a major, international, vertically-integrated oil and gas company, accounting for 2.1 percent of the global output of crude oil. It is the largest privately owned oil and gas company in the world by proven oil reserves and is the third largest privately owned oil and gas company by oil production. LUKOIL handles 16.3 percent of Russia’s crude oil production and 16.7 percent of the country’s crude oil refining. It is one of the biggest Russian oil business groups with $139 billion revenue and net income in excess of $11 billion. Its strong position is the fruit of 20 years’ work in expanding its reserve base and increasing its scale of business by seeking out and executing strategic transactions.

The Solution

LUKOIL, working with NVision Group, selected ICONICS GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA software, including its GraphWorX™64 data visualization tool; Workbench centralized configuration environment; GridWorX™64 real-time spreadsheet visualization/control tool; AlarmWorX™64 distributed, enterprise-wide alarm management system; and TrendWorX™64 plant-wide data collection, logging, charting and analysis solution. LUKOIL also uses ICONICS WebHMI™ Web-based real-time automation software along with GENESIS64’s publishing wizard. The companies have designed controls and interfaces using existing component templates found within GraphWorX64, as well as components developed especially for this project. Due to the wide graphic and functional abilities of GENESIS64, users now can process high-quality vector images of infrastructure elements, import data from connected databases into easy-to-understand table views, build customized historical trends, download reports for certain periods and systems, and analyze different data.

Operational Impact

ICONICS’ GENESIS64 HMI/SCADA suite assists LUKOIL’s operational department in the efficient and secure placement of equipment in server racks.
The new HMI/SCADA system helps users to monitor critical cases and trends, including power distribution deviations for each level of electrical power supply system, from incoming switchgear to certain server racks.
Users of the new system are now able to view data from different subsystems in a single window, allowing for the comparison and analysis of information without additional reports and needless switching between windows.

Quantitative Benefit

The planned datacenter was to include approximately 5,000 data points.
The datacenter computer rooms include over 100 server racks, each designed with a capacity of 17kW of power.