This position will support the SCADA/RTU team with decision management reports using advanced MS Excel, charts

and comparative analysis skills. The ideal candidate would have oil and gas experience, critical thinking skills, strong interpersonal communication skills both written and verbal. Someone one three to five years out of college would be ideal. There is a possibility that this role t may be considered for a gas scheduling/marketing position full-time.

RTU
RTU is an acronym for Remote Terminal Unit. An RTU is an electronic device that is controlled by a microprocessor. The device interfaces with physical objects to a Distributed Control System (DCS) or Supervisory Control and Data Aqusition (SCADA) system by transmitting telemetry data to the system. Telemeter -

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Remote Terminal Unit (RTU)

The RTU connects to physical equipment. Typically, an RTU converts the electrical signals from the equipment to digital values such as the open/closed status from a switch or a valve, or measurements such as pressure, flow, voltage or current. By converting and sending these electrical signals out to equipment the RTU can control equipment, such as opening or closing a switch or a valve, or setting the speed of a pump. It can also control the flow of a liquid.

SCADA
SCADA is an acronym for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. SCADA generally refers to an industrial computer system that monitors and controls a process. In the case of the transmission and distribution elements of electrical utilities, SCADA will monitor substations, transformers and other electrical assets. SCADA systems are typically used to control geographically dispersed assets that are often scattered over thousands of square kilometres.

A SCADA System usually consists of the following subsystems: A Human-Machine Interface or HMI is the apparatus which presents process data to a human operator, and through this, the human operator monitors and controls the process. A supervisory (computer) system, gathering (acquiring) data on the process and sending commands (control) to the process.

Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) connecting to sensors in the process, converting sensor signals to digital data and sending digital data to the supervisory system.

Programmable Logic Controller (PLCs) used as field devices because they are more economical, versatile, flexible, and configurable than special-purpose RTUs.

Communication infrastructure connecting the supervisory system to the Remote Terminal Units.

The term SCADA usually refers to centralized systems which monitor and control entire sites, or complexes of systems spread out over large areas (anything from an industrial plant to a nation). Most control actions are performed automatically by Remote Terminal Units ("RTUs") or by Programmable Logic Controllers ("PLCs"). Host control functions are usually restricted to basic overriding or supervisory level intervention. For example, a PLC may control the flow of cooling water through part of an industrial process, but the SCADA system may allow operators to change the set points for the flow, and enable alarm conditions, such as loss of flow and high temperature, to be displayed and recorded. The feedback control loop passes through the RTU or PLC, while the SCADA system monitors the overall performance of the loop.

Data acquisition begins at the RTU or PLC level and includes meter readings and equipment status reports that are communicated to SCADA as required. Data is then compiled and formatted in such a way

that a control room operator using the HMI can make supervisory decisions to adjust or override normal RTU (PLC) controls. Data may also be fed to a Historian, often built on a commodity Database Management System, to allow trending and other analytical auditing.

Operational Historian refers to a software application that logs or historizes data. Operational Historians are like Enterprise Historians but differ in that they are used by engineers on the plant floor rather than by business processes. They are typically cheaper, lighter weight, and easier to use and reconfigure than enterprise historians. Having an operational historian enables "at the source" analysis of the historical data that is not typically possible with enterprise historians. Such system are available from e.g.:

OSIsoft PI Honeywell PHD GE Proficy Historian Canary Enterprise Historian National Instruments LabView DSC Citadel OpenTSDB.net Prediktor OPC Historian

SCADA systems typically implement a distributed database, commonly referred to as a tag database, which contains data elements called tags or points. A point represents a single input or output value monitored or controlled by the system. Points can be either "hard" or "soft". A hard point represents an actual input or output within the system, while a soft point results from logic and math operations applied to other points. (Most implementations conceptually remove the distinction by making every property a "soft" point expression, which may, in the simplest case, equal a single hard point.) Points are normally stored as value-timestamp pairs: a value, and the timestamp when it was recorded or calculated. A series of value-timestamp pairs gives the history of that point. It's also common to store additional metadata with tags, such as the path to a field device or PLC register, design time comments, and alarm information.