Oil, gas and chemicals data integration
Process plants, terminals and pipelines handle hazardous materials, so data integration must respect strict separation between control systems and analysis.
Example use case
A fuel terminal reads tank gauging data, DCS exports and AIS vessel arrivals to plan berth and tank allocation, without touching the safety instrumented systems.
Typical sources and transports
DCS exports and AVEVA PI historians, 4–20 mA signals via external controllers, automatic tank gauge profiles, AIS over NMEA TCP/UDP, and BACnet/IP for buildings.
What the data means
Tank values distinguish level, temperature-corrected volume and density. Historian values keep their compression and interpolation settings, which affect meaning.
Prerequisites
Before connecting oil, gas and chemicals sources, prepare an inventory of systems and owners, interface documentation for each one, read-only credentials and approved network paths. Agree identifiers, units and time zones early, and name a person who can confirm values against the source during commissioning.
Limitations
No connection to safety systems. Hazardous-area equipment and process network access require site approval; many paths are export-based rather than live.
ALLINLET reads and normalises data; it does not control equipment.
Catalogue entries for this domain
The connector catalogue lists 75 entries for this domain. A selection is shown below. Listing indicates a possible integration path, not that it is implemented, validated or installed for your environment.
- 4–20 mA via external controller
- Access control
- AIS (NMEA over TCP/UDP)
- AIS (vessels)
- Authority publications
- AVEVA PI / OSIsoft historian
- BACnet/IP
- CAD tool export
- Cameras
- CDC
- CDC · external read-only price export
- CSV
- Data provider files
- DCS export
- Dedicated ATG sensor profile
- DLMS / COSEM
- DNP3
- EDI · EDIFACT
Further reading
Catalogue listings describe possible integration paths. Implementation and validation status is confirmed for each source during project scoping; no certification, service level or price is implied by this page.
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