Gas Operations & Control Room Services

Theothoros Alexandridis
Operations Control & Dispatching Section Head

December 5-7, Geneva

 Contents

Network Infrastructure

Gas Control Rooms

Gas Control Rooms Services

Organization of Control Room Services

Challenges & Security

Participation
NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE
DESFA National Natural Gas System (NNGS)
 Transmission pipeline: 1,462Km
 3 Entry points
 43 Exit points
 1 LNG Terminal
 1 Compression Station
 6 O&M Centres
 50 M/R or M Stations
 2 Dispatching Centres
(Main and Backup)
 RCC System
 Over 120 Valve and Scrapper Stations
 Entry Points and Capacities
SIDIROKASTRON KIPI

Forward Flow Technical Capacity Technical Capacity

10,800,000 Nm3/Day 4,300,000 Nm3/Day

Reverse Flow Technical Capacity

1,000,000 Nm3/Day
AG. TRIADA (LNG)

Technical Capacity
12,470,000 Nm3/Day

(Nm3) is referred to 0oC, 1.01325 bara

6 Operation and Maintenance (O&M) Centers
GAS CONTROL ROOMS
 Gas Control Rooms

The SCADA system supervises and control the NNGTS field gas stations from
a primary and a backup control center.

 Main Gas Control Center – Patima

 Backup Control Center – Nea Mesimvria

(unmanned, for disaster recovery)
 Infrastructure of Control Room
• Modern Information and Telecom systems support effectively the network
operation and management:
• Pilot Integrated Information System for Natural Gas, certified by Moody’s
• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (SCADA)
• Processes billing information of the remote sites
• Distributed Control Systems (DCS) for the LNG terminal, Nea Messimvria
Compressor Station and Sidirokastron BMS
• Metering Station Invoicing Systems
• Provides a view of the process variables
• Executes control commands
• Online Simulator of NGTS
 Remote Control & Communication System (RCC)

RCC : Remote Control & Communication

SCADA : Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (2 dispatching centers, 101 stations)
FOC : Fiber Optic Cable (1,422 Km)
FTS : Fixed Telecom System (FOC Multiplexing System, 90 nodes @ 34 Mbps)
PABX : Private Automatic Branch eXchange (7, ~700 users)
Mobile/Satelite: Mobile Atex handsets – Satellite for exceptional cases
 Fully Redundant Dispatching Centers

Private fibre optic telecommunication system for data and voice transmission

Main Dispatching Center – Patima

Backup Dispatching Centre – Nea Mesimvria (unmanned, for disaster recovery)

101 telemetered stations

~ 19,000 digital and analog inputs / outputs

 Installed Fiber Optic Cable alongside the pipeline
KULA

• Fiber Optic Cable alongside of pipeline

A
STRYMONOKHORI
B
MITROUSSI GAZOROS FOTOLIVOS PAL/HORI KAVALA CHALKERO PETROPIGI
KARPERI
TOXOTES

LAKHANAS
KSANTHI
THESSALONIKI EAST
DHRIMOS VFL VISTONIDA

• Fiber Standards: G.652 and G.655

THESSALONIKI NORTH ELPE AMAKSADES
PENTALOFOS

EKO
KOSMIO
N.MESYMBRIA

KOMOTINI

TRIKALA
IMATHIAS
PLATY
CHAMILON

KATERINI
ELEF/HORI

ALEXANDROUPOLIS • Number of Fibers: 12, 24, 48, 96

LITOKHORO ANTHIA

PLATAMONAS

RAPSANI
FERRES

A
• IP-based telecommunications based on
layer3 Cisco 3600X devices
VIPE LARISSA
KIPI B

LARISSA N.

LARISSA S.

ZAPPIO

KARDITSA GORGOVITES AMBELIA KOKKINA

• Bandwidth from 1 to 10 Gbps
{
1Gbps
FARSALA VOLOS
FOC: 10Gbps
POLYDENDRI 100Mbps
TRIKALA

LAMIA 2Mbps Metro Ethernet

Backup
{ or simiar technology

• Leased lines for redundancy purposes with

BRALLOS
routes 10Mbps Metro Ethernet

MODHI

ANTIKYRA (ADG)
MAVRONERI
LAN Node

WAN Node
Ethernet interface and bandwidth 10 Mbps
LIVADIA

VAYA

• Services: SCADA, telephony, remote

THISVI
HERON
THIVA
ALIVERI ALIVERI L/V

INOFYTA ASSOPOS MARKOPOULO

OROPOU VARNAVAS 600Mbps
MARKOPOULO desktop, remote file retrieval, corporate
Intranet applications, Internet and other
ATHENS EAST
ARKAT STEPHANI
ATHENS KERATEA
NORTH CNG (SALFA) MENIDI STAMATA

KALYVIA

services
A.LIOSSIA
PATIMA THRIASSIO SKHISTOS
LAVRIO
ELPE
ELEFSINAS
GIANNOULAs KERATSINI
ATHENS HAR ATHENS WEST
MANDRA
AG.
ARGOS DERVENAKIA THEODORI
MEGARA
MEGALOPOLIS TRIPOLIS PEDIO
VOLIS
A A

• Network Management System

PERIVOLIA ACHLADOKAMPOS MOTOR OIL
B B
AG. TRIADA REVITHOUSSA
GAS CONTROL ROOMS SERVICES
 Gas Control Rooms Services
• Monitoring and remote operation of the network

• Implementation of the transportation plan

• Continuous supervision round the clock of the NNGS via the SCADA system
• Manning the Back Control Room in case of emergency and educational natural gas acts
• Support and coordination of the maintenance personnel and the Authorities in emergency
cases (gas leaks, earthquakes, fires)
• Observe the Natural Gas Off -takes and deliveries in accordance with the ‘users’
nominations and the operating conditions
• Optimization of the National Natural Gas System operation by using on-line simulation
platform
• Intervenes to ensure the smooth operation of the Greek Natural Gas market and/ or
security of supply
 Gas Control Rooms Services
 Coordination and Prompt warning and guidance of the maintenance

personnel

 Coordination with other operators

 Management of Equipment Alarms and notification of all parties

 Coordinates Services to address the consequences of a major accident in

the NNGTS taking into account the current relevant instructions issued by

General Secretariat for Civil Protection. This will occur via communicating

with all parties (police, fire brigade, Civil Protection)

 Decide on measures for abnormal conditions (first level)

 Gas Control Rooms Services
 Observation of the balance supply,
Undertaking balancing actions in order to:
 Maintain the transmission network within operational limits,
 Achieve an end of the day linepack position in the position in the transmission network
different from the one anticipated on the basis of expected inputs and off-takes for that gas
day, consistent with economic and efficient operation of the transmission network

 Implement the necessary action to inform the involved parties

 Creating, managing and sending operational reports to Management, and organizational units
of DESFA , and Transmission Users

 Exchange information regarding the operational regime between the Parties is carried out
between the Central Dispatching Centers of DESFA, Bulgartransgaz and BOTAS (Turkey TSO)

 DESFA round the clock aiming at optimizing the gas flow through the IP under normal and
emergency conditions
 Sections of Gas Dispatching Department

Metrology Section
DISPATCHING NNGS
CENTER Operations
Daily program of NG
Planning
delivery/off-take Section

Operation Control
SCADA Support & System & Dispatching Section
Telecommunications Section
ORGANIZATION OF CONTROL ROOM SERVICES
 Organization of Control Room Services
 Preserves a Log book

 In case of malfunction it is logged in the SAP

 Introductory and periodical training of the entire workface of O&M

 Identification and registration of all visitors

 Application of a comprehensive system for security and protection that includes

relevant Manual work instructions and reports

 Participation in schedules tests with all parties (Police, Fire Brigade, Civil Protection)

 Provides detailed information to the relevant on call engineer due to malfunction

,
 Organization of Control Room Services

 Manages alarms

 Participation in schedules tests with all parties (Police, Fire Brigade, Civil Protection)
CHALLENGES & SECURITY
 Challenges for the next two years

•Replacement of the central SCADA system

•Remote, locally unmanned, operation of the BMS Sidirokastron from the

DESFA’s Dispatching Centers

•Upgrade of the Stations Control Network

Full separation between station process and measurement
Harmonization regarding the infrastructure, the architecture and
the data flow

•Balancing actions by using day-ahead and within-day products through a

balancing platform
 Data flow and connections – future status

DESFA website

SCADA Integrated
Flow Computers PLCs/RTUs & Corporate Information
Local HMI User Servers validated System
measurement
data
measurement process data
measurement confirmed
data
data quantities
field data
SCADA
Forecast estimations Pipeline
SCADA VLAN System Simulator
Intranet
VLAN

ENTSOG
BALANCING
transparency PLATFORM
platform
Internet
 Security

 The systems used for the provision of services are dual fully

redundant.

 Security and protection is the duty of a dedicated unit

within the organization structure of the company

PARTICIPATION
 Participation
• Participation in Dispatching and Maintenance Meetings with companies of the Russian

Natural Gas Dispatching Transportation System to the Balkan area and Turkey

• Communication and synergies with relevant entities and authorities both national and

European

 Risk Assessment (national level)

 Preventive Action Plan (national level)

 Interconnection Agreement (Turkey & Bulgarian TSO) Entsog (European TSO)

 ACER (The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators)

 Participation

• Participation in national or European research programs aiming at

developing security through technological development (hardware-
software)
• Security of Supply (International Energy Agency-IEA) (global level)
• Very good cooperation with KEMEA (Hellenic Republic, Ministry of the
Interior, Centre for Security Studies).
www.desfa.gr
e-mail: t.alexandridis@desfa.gr
tel: +30 2130 885143
Fax: +30 2130 885005

Thank you for your attention!

• Papamatthaiou Anna,
Created by
• Alexandridis Theodoros.