About the plant

The largest oil wells in Italy are located in Val d'Agri area. Val d'Agri Project, run by ENI and Agip consists of: 29 production locations, central plant with daily processing capacity of 104000 barrels, oil pipeline leading to Taranto Refinery (136 km) and storage facilities. Production, processing and transport are controlled and supervised by process controllers.

Central Plant process control system is based on ABB Master controllers.

Scope of activities

Intea took part in process control project during the commissioning.

Special task was to enable serial communication with other systems. Activities included:

• application testing
• communication equipment tuning
• controller programs modifications
• test protocols
• commissioning
• project documentation (partly)