CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
24 April 2007
Implementation Investments
Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica Strengthens and Improves Production Decision Making Process Implementing the SAP-xMIIT Solution
Neoris , a Latin American leader in business and IT consulting with headquarters in Miami, Florida (USA), and SAP México y Centroamérica, a leader in business solutions, collaborated with Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica to strengthen and improve decision making in production processes, planning, and operation, implemented the Portal for Visualization and Integration of Processes (VIP) developed using SAP xMIIT (SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence).
Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica (Pemex Gas) is a subsidiary of Petróleos Mexicanos that processes, transports and sells natural gas, liquid hydrocarbons (such as liquefied gas of petroleum, or LP), and other basic petrochemical products, such as ethane, natural gasoline and sulphur.
Pemex Gas' Subdirectory of Production processes underground natural gas and manages 10 gas processing complexes, comprising 71 processing facilities, 131 units of auxiliary services, and 100 thousand tons in capacity of liquid storage. Control, analysis and evaluation of operations and company performance are supported by a large number of IT industrial systems, the same that are operated by specialized personnel. Such a situation made difficult the process of integration and analysis of information from several data sources of the organization, and this resulted in: high costs for training in the use of information from specialized IT tools; waste of time to recompile and integrate data and reports; problems with authorization and access to information. This damaged or delayed decision making concerning key processes of production including: production planning, operation, safety, product quality, performance management, only to name a few.
The Subdirectory of Production and the Competence Center of Pemex Gas analyzed the problem to find an adequate solution that allowed timely and reliable integration and availability of information for decision making concerning operations and business at different levels of the organization. After the analysis, the group of experts of both areas in Pemex Gas decided for the purchase of SAP xMIIT system, which was successfully implemented at the Subdirectory of Production by Neoris, the consulting and development company.
"The implementation of SAP xMIIT at the Subdirectory of Production in Pemex Gas was a very important achievement for our organization, since this allowed us to consolidate our name as reliable providers of services in the area of development and technological consulting, as well as reaffirmed our relationship as SAP´s strategic partner. SAP xMIIT allows daily or real time integration of data from SAP and non-SAP sources, as well as query or processing in Web environments," commented Claudio Muruzábal, Neoris´ CEO.
The VIP Portal developed during the implementation of SAP xMIIT is a tool that helps to integrate and combine information from different IT systems to those existing at the Subdirectory of Production at Pemex Gas, including: Advisor, Samplemanager, PIMS, PI, SISPA and SAP modules as PP-PI, CO, BW, EHS, PM and others.
"With the successful and seamless integration of PEMEX Gas y Petroquímica Básica information, SAP achieves the objective of helping clients to digitalize their business processes," commented José Duarte, President and General Manager of SAP for Latin America. "Working together with PEMEX was very important and the successful completion of such a project clearly indicates that SAP is the leader in developing solutions tailored to the needs of clients."
The screens (dashboards) available at the portal contain information about Production, Planning, Quality, Maintenance, Real Time Operation, Safety, Health, Environmental Protection and Performance Indicators that can be accessed on any PC. An innovation of the VIP project is the development of screens for PDA devices and cellular phones (MiniDashboards), through which information about operations may be viewed, including: monitoring variables in real time, sending and receiving operational alerts; data and production indexes; KPI´s; data on raw material and products quality, as well as maintenance information. Such information may be accessed through the company's intranet or Internet at any time and anywhere in the world.
"With the implementation of VIP Portal we are one of the leading companies in IT, since the easy access, speed, integration and performance levels of the portal have made this product one of the most important developments, and a world success case in terms of implementation of SAP xMIIT system. I would like to thank and recognize the excellent job made by Jesús García, Héctor Alvarez, Antonio Rodríguez and people at Subdirectory of Production, Competence Center, Neoris and SAP," said Manuel Chávez, Manager of Operating Control, Optimization and Safety of the Subdirectory of Production at Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica.
Some benefits of implementing SAP xMIIT include:
• Customized display: Dashboards and customized information for roles and users, ability of viewing data in different devices (PC, PDA, cell phones and others) and media (Internet and Intranet);
• Integration between SAP and production systems: All in a single application; people may monitor SAP and Plant Industrial Systems (data about: costs, production, quality, maintenance, safety and environment) information without using different applications;
• Mobility: Company personnel may access information from processing facilities, and receive operational alerts in their PDAs and cell phones. Therefore, the Subdirectory of Production has established world class standards of operation and safety, converting these mobile devices into tools for decision making and accident prevention.
About Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica
Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica is a company that processes 4,163 million cubic feet per day (MMpcd) of gas, from which 3,215 MMpcd are sour humid gas, and 948 MMpcd are sweet humid gas, as well as 97,7 thousand daily barrels of condensate, from which 90,3 Mbd are sour condensate and 7,4 Mbd are sweet condensate. The company produces an average of 3,432 million cubic feet per day (MMpcd) of dry natural gas, 221,5 thousand barrels per day (Mbd) of liquefied gas, 93 Mbd of natural gasoline, 129,7 Mbd of ethane, and 2,0 thousand tons per day of (Mtd) sulphur. It also transports a daily average of 4,000 MMpcd of natural gas and 182 Mbd of liquefied gas, and these products are sold to a total of 838 clients of natural gas, 768 clients of liquefied gas, and 80 clients of basic petrochemical products. Additionally, Pemex Gás y Petroquímica Básica exports an average of 78 Mbd of natural gasoline.
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