Real Time Engineering - Oil and Gas Software Solutions and Process Control Engineering

Real Time has a long and distinguished track record of providing consultancy, design and implementation of software applications and process control engineering solutions for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical industry.

We provide strong technical expertise, delivering cost savings, efficiency gains and commercial advantage to our customers including BP, Shell and ExxonMobil.

Quality is at the core of Real Time and we are certified to ISO 9001:2000, ISO 27001, ISO 14001, DTI TickIT and Investors in People standards.

OIL AND GAS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Real Time has developed specific products that enable our clients to manage their assets and installations efficiently and safely. These include:

• Hydrocarbon Accounting Systems – (RT-HAS™)
• Pipeline Product Tracking and Leak Detection Systems (RT-Leak™, RT-Flow™)
• Production Data Management – (RT-Data™)
• Incident Reporting (RT-IRiS™)

RT-HAS

The latest version of our Hydrocarbon Accounting System product , RT-HASTM , now includes additional functionality to manage and automate the key commercial and operational processes for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import and storage facilities in addition to the more traditional oil and gas terminals. It has recently been adopted by Dragon LNG at Milford Haven and is operational at many other facilities in the UK and internationally. Key features include:

• Enabling web-delivered hydrocarbon accounting information, reducing the complexity and improving the efficiency of the whole operation
• Maximising operations, reducing any penalty payments and commcerial exposure, while ensuring that production targets are met

PIPELINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS RT-FLOW™ AND RT-LEAK™

Real Time Engineering provides two pipeline management products: RT-Flow and RT-Leak.

RT-Flow predicts the conditions in the pipeline network based on the telemetry data and its knowledge of the characteristics of the fluid in the pipes.

RT-Leak combines several complimentary techniques to determine whether a leak has occurred. These techniques have different criteria and thresholds that combine to generate a leak probability index (LPI).

OIL AND GAS PROCESS CONTROL ENGINEERING

At Real Time we believe that the most important factor in the supply of effective control applications is a clear and thorough understanding of the requirements – business objectives, plant economics, process dynamics, and the role of the control room operator.

These economic, technical and human factors determine whether an application will be safe, robust, operable, and profitable.

ALARM MANAGEMENT

We bring unique value in Abnormal Situation Management through an efficient methodology for design and rationalisation of alarms associated with process control systems, enabling improved process control, safer operations and reducing financial impact from lost production.

PROCESS TROUBLESHOOTING

We have developed techniques for identifying and analysing process and control performance using information already available in most plant control systems. Process plants operate best under steady conditions. Yet many operations experience periods of unsteady operation that are not severe enough to cause a process upset or trip, but have an impact on performance nevertheless. The results of our technique can be monitored remotely, using a standard browser and the company Intranet, or even the public Internet.

PROCESS SIMULATION

Our simulation of production processes provides very realistic process simulation, at a fraction of the cost required for a Distributed Control System simulator. This provides an extremely valuable and cost effective tool for effective training of Plant Control Room Operators and Instrumentation Technicians.