YOKOGAWA MIDDLE EAST B.S.C. (c) ISSUE 3 l APRIL 2009

Launch of Yokogawa’s Response Center Middle East

The RCME will enhance the level of service to our valued customers by providing a quick and effective response, which will help reduce the impact and cost of downtime. Downtime translates into lost efficiency and revenue, and this could be minimized or even eliminated by resolving technical issues as quickly as possible. The Response Centre will have the advantage of offering a single point of

contact where all calls and requests will be received at one centralized point, acknowledged, ticketed, and assigned to the appropriate expert for swift resolution. Also, our customers will now be able to call the Response Center via convenient contact methods such as the phone, email or an on-line self-service option (phase #2), depending on the priority. The new Response Centre also offers our valued clients more flexible need-based support programs. They will enable it to incorporate different levels of support into the annual maintenance contract facilitating a customized solution depending on the size and complexity of your requirements. Our ever-Vigilant Product Specialists dedicated to the Response Center will be available to attend to situations on priority to provide you with an Instantaneous Expert Attention. Being part of an integral part of the Global Response Centre Network, the YME RCME can now help our treasured customers to reap the advantages from the global knowledge-base as well as the expertise available in all the Response

Centers in Yokogawa Regional Offices and Headquarters. In fact, the new Yokogawa Response Center provides much more than software or hardware support- it offers an end-to-end protection for all aspects of your assets in Yokogawa. A formal announcement shall be presented to all our valued customers shortly, and you may contact your local Yokogawa service representative for more details.

02 Success Story

03 Renaissance for Solid State Safety?

04 ScopeCorder Captures and Analyzes Real Time Data

05 STARDOM RTU’s – low power consumption

05 Become a Yokogawa Plus member

06 Wireless for Industrial Automation

07 Yokogawa joins UN Global Compact

07 Yokogawa Receives Power Plant Control System Orders

08 [Hanami] Hana=Flowers or blossoms, Mi= Viewing

Yokogawa Middle East is pleased to announce the launch of our new “RESPONSE CENTER MIDDLE EAST (RCME)” at the Regional Headquarters in Bahrain. The RCME is expected to be fully operational and open to customers in the first half of 2009.

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Success Story

As the Process Control Systems supplier for the key Khurais Central Producing Facilities Project, Yokogawa Middle East & Yokogawa Saudi Arabia Company have delivered top-of-the-line Distributed Control Systems, giving a boost to Saudi Aramco’s prowess in providing a fully integrated world-class

Saudi Aramco chose Yokogawa as the process control system (PCS) supplier for Khurais Central Processing Facility Project in August 2006 to work with its lump sum turnkey (LSTK) contractors. The project was divided into three sections and awarded to three major LSTK contractors from Italy, and South Korea.

The plant is a large scale unit, with 16,000 hardwired DCS inputs/outputs, 11,000 hardwired ESD inputs/outputs and 1,200 VMS points. YME deployed three teams catering to individual LSTK Contractors. Yokogawa equipped their new facility in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia to stage and test the entire system configuration in a fully integrated manner. Yokogawa’s project teams comprised 60 engineers who were seconded at LSTK contractor’s location to assist and provide technical support in designing the system to customer’s requirement. As part of its Saudization commitment, Yokogawa recruited several of their Saudi engineers to execute this project, who were trained and could interact with Saudi Aramco &

Saudi Aramco selected Yokogawa, the vendor for the SCADA system for the Khurais/Abu Jiffan/Mazalij area in July 2007, to work with its Lump Sum Turnkey (LSTK) contractor NESIC, Saudi Arabia.

Through the successful execution of these contracts from its base in Bahrain and the new facility in Saudi Arabia, Yokogawa has once again proven its capability to execute large-scale projects in the Middle East, to the fullest satisfaction of its customers.

Yokogawa Plays Key Role in Khurais Central Producing Facilities Project

Khurais Central Processing Facility Project

Khurais Upstream SCADA

crude oil processing and stabilizing facility at Khurais in Saudi Arabia.

Yokogawa has also delivered a fully redundant state-of-the-art Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system to monitor and control the

LSTK engineers during the engineering and testing phase.

Additionally, Yokogawa is providing the Stardom PLC as RTUs for the Wasia water wells, which are integrated into the Utility DCS. This scope was awarded in January 2008 and was executed in a short span of six months to meet the project requirement and schedule.

Yokogawa supplied state-of-the-art consoles from Evans, Calgary to meet the modern design of Central Control Room (CCR) planned by Italian architects with Snamprogetti, Italy.The new CCR will control and monitor the GOSPs, stabilizing

production, transportation and delivery of oil from wells spread over a wide area, including Khurais, Abu Jiffan & Mazalij.

In addition to several other challenging initiatives in the regional energy sector, Yokogawa is playing a pioneering role in Saudi Aramco’s Khurais Central Producing Facility. This plant, the biggest in Saudi Arabia, is designed to produce 1,200 MBCD of stabilized Arabian Light (AL) crude blend from the three fields with an approximate water cut of 30%.

Yokogawa’s partnership with Saudi Aramco has achieved unparalleled levels of success in boosting the Kingdom’s energy stream by way of local project execution in the region, testing in the Kingdom and continuous efforts towards Saudization.

facilities, water injection facilities, gas facilities and SCADA from individual operator consoles.

The site installation and Site Acceptance Test has already been completed for each facility. Yokogawa is supporting Contractors and Saudi Aramco with loop check activity and will proceed with commissioning activities in the months to come.

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Kishore BaadkarProject Manager Joseph ScariaManager, Network Control Solutions Engineering Dept.

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Renaissance for Solid State Safety Ian Ramsay-ConnellChief Technical Officer

Yokogawa added safety systems to their portfolio with the acquisition of GTI Industrial Automation in 1997, who had a proven track record with programable and particularly with solid state safety systems. With the advancement of certified programable systems, including Yokogawa’s own ProSafe-RS system, the solid state technology has become overshadowed, nevertheless it is still the system of choice for the highest integrity safety applications, such as High Integrity Pressure Protection Systems (HIPPS). The Yokogawa ProSafe-SLS system is now generating renewed interest for more than just small HIPPS solutions due a number of unique features which fit well with the increasing focus on longer lifecycle costs.

To provide some history, ProSafe-SLS in its current format is 20 years old, with a further 10 years prior to that for earlier versions, yet all work on the same principle of Magnetic Core technology. Oscillating magnetic fields created by passing current through windings in combination with 1 millisecond timing are configured to create logic functions, supplemented by Input/Output modules which include further configuration options, but what makes ProSafe-SLS special for its users?

ProSafe-SLS was the first (by many years) safety system to be certified up to SIL4 without redundancy. This high integrity is uniquely combined with the highest availability due to the stress tolerance of the circuits. It is virtually impossible to

create a nuisance trip of ProSafe-SLS logic without physically damaging the modules. The integrity of the system arises from the principle of operation rather than dependence on high quality components, external testing or extensive diagnostics. This is attractive as it means the logic can be located in the harshest environments and be trusted to operate reliably for many years, an attribute proven by the use of ProSafe-SLS in Subsea HIPPS systems, or sealed in explosion proof enclosures in the turrets of FPSOs. Combine this reliability with high speed operation (total propagation time of typically 20 milliseconds) regardless of system size, 1 millisecond event capture for every input and logic gate, and a communications network allowing multiple systems to be managed with 1 millisecond synchronisation and it can be seen why it is worth a second look.

ProSafe-SLS has also proven itself in complex interlocking systems on the fuelling machines of nuclear reactors, working for 10 years with no failures and decreasing the fuelling cycle time to give major cost benefits. In the North Sea, most of the Shell production platforms rely on ProSafe-SLS for all their protection logic, not just the highest integrity levels, a decision which was reinforced by studies into lifecycle ownership costs. A global analysis showed that ProSafe-SLS systems were far more reliable than all other programable systems, even where

redundant fault tolerant programable systems were used.

Today, Yokogawa offers ProSafe-RS for programable solutions and ProSafe-SLS for diverse technology high integrity solutions, both integrated with the Centum VP DCS. However, the ProSafe-SLS technology is still available for larger systems and the lifecycle ownership issues can still be applied for remote, unmanned and/or harsh locations. Yokogawa can therefore offer solutions for all safety requirements perfectly suited to particular conditions, operating philosophies and lifecycle models reducing all risk aspects of process operations.

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ScopeCorder Captures and Analyzes Real Time Data

In recognition of the instrument’s reliability and versatility, the editors of Test & Measurement World have named it the winner of the 2008 Test of Time award. The annual Test of Time award honors a product that continues to provide state-of-the-art performance for at least five years after its introduction.

The DL750 ScopeCorder from Yokogawa packs

up to 16 analog inputs, 16 logic channels,

and almost every I/O port imaginable into a portable, large-screen

instrument.

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Vivek RatnalikarManager, Test & Measurement Dept.

Today’s engineers depend increasingly upon versatile test equipment with a wide variety of measurements. Yokogawa DL750 ScopeCorder is just such a capable instrument, which enables simultaneous measurement & analysis of various Electro-Mechanical parameters.

ScopeCorder is a new measurement tool combining the functions of an oscilloscope for capturing instantaneous phenomena and of a data recorder for monitoring long-term-trend. The DL750 allows inputs from physical sensors such as thermocouples, strain gages or acceleration sensors. As such it has become popular instrument among engineers working in different areas like Research, Development, Production, Quality and Maintenance across the industries like Electrical & Electronics, Power, Process, Automotive, Aerospace, and Electromechanical etc.

The DL750 packs a large display on the front, a hard drive inside, and a printer on top. The unit’s left side panel is populated with three USB ports, an Ethernet port, a SCSI port, a video port, a GPIB port, 16 bit digital input Connectors, and a ZIP drive/ floppy drive, or PC Card drive with a space for the power plug. On the right side, the DL750 has a room for 8 two-channel input modules.

In between the inputs and communications ports, the 10-kg DL750 has up to 1 GW of memory. You can allocate the memory to any channel or combination of channels. The instrument offers a wide range of user-selectable Input Modules (such as logic, temperature, strain, acceleration, rotational analysis, frequency, and voltage) that covers almost every measurement

need. It packs speeds of up to 10 MS/sec with 12-bit resolution and 1 MS/s at 16-bit resolution. Most modules provide 1000 V of signal isolation.

DL750 ScopeCorder can capture and analyze data in real time with functions usually reserved for digital oscilloscopes. Functions include channel math (such

as sine, cosine, log, and integrals), digital filtering, spectral analysis, and go/no-go limit testing. With all of its capabilities, the DL750 ScopeCorder, is going to be a “Must Have” Instrument in every related industry & plant.

For detailed information please contact Ymetmi@bh.yokogawa.com

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To meet the recent worldwide challenges in energy demands, oil companies have been working hard to increase natural gas and oil output by developing and improving production technologies. They are also aggressively exploring development of new gas and oil fields, many of which are located in very harsh, hazardous and inhospitable environments with extreme temperatures, high altitudes and/or insufficiently developed power and communications infrastructure. The natural gas and oil well control and monitoring systems that are installed in

Yokogawa Plus is an online members’ page for current or prospective users of the CENTUM series production control systems, ProSafe-RS safety instrumentation system, Exa series solution-based packages, STARDOM network-based control systems or PRM plant asset management. Information restricted to registered users such as product specifications and technical documents can be downloaded. Members can get comprehensive review of Yokogawa’s production systems and solutions by logging in to the Yokogawa Plus once.

To sign-up please go to the following address: https://plus.yokogawa.co.jp/Membership/

such environments must be robust, highly durable and consume less power.

In response to these needs, Yokogawa has extended its portfolio with low power modules for use with the STARDOM FCN autonomous controllers. These modules are made of durable parts that enable the FCN autonomous controllers to reliably control and monitor production facilities under extreme temperatures ranging from –40°C to +70 °C and at altitudes as high as 3,000 meters.

To support the FCN-RTU’s secure control features, various autonomous capabilities, a web server, FTP and logging functions are embedded, simplifying and improving the efficiency of routine monitoring and operation from remote sites.

FCN-RTU is the ideal solution today for geographically distributed applications, off-shore platforms and especially for oil/gas wells and pipelines.

STARDOM RTU’s – High performance with low power consumption

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Balaji DurairajManager, Network Control Solutions Center

HIS/ENG

Vnet/IP or Vnet

Router

HSE

24VDC

HUB

Modbus/TCPALE111

Wireless-HARTZone 2

Optical fiber

Zone 0/1

Gateway

Access PointField Device

Hazardous Area

Safe Area

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Wireless for Industrial Automation

The Wireless which is applicable for Industrial automation was seen in Year 2005. The initial & immediate effort made was extending the HART specification to WirelessHart also. Alongside ISA-SP100 wireless committee started working on setting the standard for Wireless from late 2006. The standard is to be referred as ISA100.11a. Wide numbers of companies including Yokogawa are members of this ISA100 standard committee and the final specifications for this standard are expected to come out in April 2009.

The specifications of Field Wireless Network (WirelessHart):• 2.4 GHz Global site license-free band

(2.4 ~ 2.4835GHz)• IEEE802.15.4STANDARDRADIO• Frequencyhopping(15ch)overdirect-

sequence spread spectrum (DSSS)• Timesynchronizedcommunication• Automatic node joining and network

formation• Fully-redundantmeshrouting• Securemessagetransfer

(Authentication, Encryption)• TransmissionRange

• Outdoor range : 300 m typical (line of sight)

• Indoor or Plant floor (metal facilities) : 40 ~ 100m

• At10mWRFoutputpowerinclude+2dBi Omni-directional antenna gain

What are the available Network Topologies?The available network topologies are Star, Tree, Mesh and Cluster. Mesh is the most preferred network topology.

What are the potential benefits of Wireless Technology?• ReducedCapitalExpenditure

• Cable Engineering• Cable Installation• Commissioning

• ReducedOperationalExpenditure• Less down time

• Higher productivity• Less field maintenance effort

• ImproveSafety&Product• More monitoring points• Environmental monitoring

Where can we apply the present-day available Wireless solution (WirelessHart)?The Wireless technology is still not mature. The present-day wireless solution can only be applied for monitoring in the following potential applications.

• Monitoring of well heads• Environmental monitoring• Diagnosis of field devices• Leak detection monitoring• Tank level monitoring• Condition monitoring of equipment• Gas detection systems• Fuel tank gauging• Process monitoring

Where does Yokogawa stand with respect to Wireless?Yokogawa is part of the Wireless standardization committee from the beginning, both for WirelessHart & ISA100. Yokogawa adopted a 3 Phase approach. The 1st Phase prototype based on WirelessHart was internally released in Year 2008 and the 2nd phase products for field trial with WirelessHart technology will be released in April 2009. The final phase involves products conforming to ISA100 and depends on ISA100.11a specification & compliance.

Finally, Yokogawa believes that the key to success of “Wireless” is one standard and that Interoperability is an essential driving factor.

Typical WirelessHart System function and data flow:

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Raju SeshadriGroup Leader, Industrial Automation Marketing

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Yokogawa joins UN Global Compact

Yokogawa Receives Power Plant Control System Orders From Egyptian Electricity Holding Co. (EEHC)*1

Yokogawa is proud to become the 76th participant in Japan to join the United

Nations Global Compact, on the 9th of January, 2009.

Proposed by the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and officially launched in the year 2000, the Global Compact is a voluntary corporate citizenship initiative consisting of ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption.

Since its inception in 1915, Yokogawa has been dedicatedly fulfilling its responsibilities

towards society through its various projects such as establishing of the Standards of Business Conduct for the Yokogawa Group (1994), the Yokogawa Group Compliance Guidelines as a specific action guideline (2007) and the Corporate Social Responsibility Headquarters (2008).

And now, as a participant of the United Nations Global Compact, Yokogawa will further continue to work hard to fulfil its commitments and responsibilities towards our society.

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Yokogawa Middle East will provide the CENTUM Integrated Production Control System to five power plants in Egypt and carry out engineering, commissioning, and supervision of installation.

Egypt is planning to construct many new power plants as well as upgrade existing plants due to the rising demand for electric power driven by steady economic growth and Yokogawa aims to help satisfy the demand in the country with the state-of-the-art control system. These systems are for the control of boilers and balance of plant facilities in each of the following projects:

Power Plant Name Type Capacity (MW)

User or Buyer of Automation System

Consultant for User

Cairo West Power Plant New 700 Cairo Electricity Production Company

PGESCo.*2

Nubaria III Combined Cycle Power Plant*3

New 750 Middle Delta Electricity Production Company

PGESCo.

Kafr El Dawar Power Plant

New 110 West Delta Electricity Production Company

Not Applicable

El Atf Combined Cycle Power Plant

New 750 Middle Delta Electricity Production Company

PGESCo.

Sidi Krir Combined Cycle Power Plant

New 750 West Delta Electricity Production Company

PGESCo.

Yokogawa has received these five contracts for the following reasons:1. Yokogawa’s extensive, global track record in providing control systems for power plants

such as an 800 MW combined cycle facility in Spain.2. Yokogawa’s highly-regarded power plant automation expertise and engineering

capability.3. Yokogawa’s global approach to project execution based on the One Global YOKOGAWA

initiative, which brings together the expertise and capabilities of the entire Yokogawa Group and is based on leading edge technology.

Global demand for power plant control systems is predicted to grow approximately 20% between 2008 and 2010*4. While growth is expected to slow down in 2009, the forecast is for steady growth in the power plant control system market driven by rising demand for electricity in emerging countries.

Yokogawa entered the international power plant control market in 2001 and has been expanding this business by developing close relationships with customers and carrying out extensive sales, engineering, and service activities through its regional subsidiaries. Since the establishment of Yokogawa Middle East in Bahrain in 1990, Yokogawa has begun to experience steady growth in the Middle East. With the growth of its business particularly in the oil and petrochemical industries, the company has achieved a full-scale entry into the power market.

Encouraged by this success at securing orders in Egypt, Yokogawa will accelerate its global business activities in the Middle East and other regions, and plans to receive 30 billion yen of power plant system orders in fiscal year 2010.

*1. A governmental electric company which regulates the production, transmission and distribution of electricity throughout Egypt.

*2. Power Generation Engineering & Service Company - A consulting company operated by a joint venture between EEHC and Bechtel.

*3. A more efficient type of plant that makes combined use of gas and steam turbines.

*4 Source: Distributed Control Systems Worldwide Outlook, Market Analysis and Forecast Through 2012, published by the ARC Advisory Group on May 8, 2008.

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[Hanami] Hana=Flowers orblossoms, Mi= Viewing

Every year, Japan celebrates a springfestival called Hanami, which celebratesthe blooming of the cherry blossoms,usually from late March to early April. Inmore than half of Japan, the cherryblossoming period coincides with thebeginning of the scholastic and fiscalyears, and so cherry blossoms remindmost of Japanese of the time he or shejoined the school and/or the company as a fresh person just after graduation.The custom of Hanami has existed sincearound the 7th century as aristocratswrote poems and enjoyed the beautifulscenery. But it was in the 9th century thatSakura (cherry) became more popularthan Ume (plum) as Hana. The Hanamicustom was originally limited to the elite of

the Imperial Court, but soon spread tosamurai society and, by the Edo period(early 17th to mid 19th century), to thecommon people as well.Today, Hanami is celebrated with familyand friends setting up picnics andenjoying the beautiful cherry blossoms.Legend has it that in winter, branches lookdead, as the cherry blossoms bloom itspouts out energy that has been keptduring winter. To be under the cherryblossoms means that we can receiveenergy, power and medical effects.Poems would be written praising thedelicate flowers, which were seen as ametaphor for life itself, luminous andbeautiful yet fleeting and ephemeral.But Japanese are not always thatsentimental but often practical. Theteasing proverb “Dumplings rather thanflowers” or “Food before flowers” refers tothe fact that food, being more practicaland more necessary to survival, should bechosen over flowers, something pretty butnot essential to life. It also hints at the realpriorities for most cherry blossom viewers.

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Kokichi HondaExecutive Advisor to President