Desenho e monitoramento de instalações de produção de óleo e gás através da composição de componentes de software

Abstract

Oil and gas companies are facing increasing exploration and production costs. Therefore, these companies need to continually improve the efficiency of their production processes to stay competitive. Concerning onshore oil production facilities, a significant amount of investment has been made in the automation and monitoring of production processes and facilities. There are few specialized companies that provide authoring systems to allow engineers and operators to develop their own view of the process, to monitor equipment in real-time or to analyze historical data for accounting purpose. Usually, authoring system in automation field are monolithic systems, protected by strict copyright laws, hard to adapt, and difficult to extend. These characteristics lead majors companies, as Petrobras, to pay for the customization of proprietary software or to develop their own solutions to deal with the particularities of their processes. This paper presents an open source authoring environment to model oil production facilities for visualization, monitoring, and accounting purposes. The application use Component-based Software Engineering to overcome some limitations of proprietary automation solutions. We have developed a family of components to represent the equipment, their relationships, and constraints usually found in an onshore oil and gas plant.