3/13/2012. Syscom 18 Presents Its Solutions For Terminal Facilities At StocExpo 2012

Tank farms and terminals operations play a vital role in hydrocarbon supply chain. Today this business is facing a series of challenges such as the need for increasing the storage capacities, increased regulatory compliance, increasing number of fuel additives and mixes, the big costs of maintenance etc.

This is why every tank farm or terminal needs improved solutions in order to efficiently and safely store petroleum products prior to being transported to end consumers or retail facilities.

StocExpo event gave this year a good review of the market and its future developments, covering key current storage issues and presenting up to date products and services form the world's top equipment providers.

From the point of view of the Romanian system integrator Syscom 18, it is important today to identify the optimal long term solutions that will help the tank terminal companies to apply the safety standards and to efficiently work over years.

'The fiscal metering systems for liquids represent an important part within the tank terminal facilities. We can engineer, manufacture, install and calibrate MID certified metering skids for crude oil, heavy fuel oil, diesel, gasoline, LPG, kerosene, chemicals, volume and/or mass based.', says Mr. Ion Andronache, the CEO of Syscom 18.

In fact, a system integrator such as Syscom 18 provides complete solutions for the custody transfer fiscal metering packages for oil and gas industries. Its turnkey solutions in this field range from design, engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning.

Syscom 18 is by far the most important Romanian manufacturer of fiscal metering skids for liquids, other than water, according OMIL R117, Directive 2004/22/EC (MID), Directive 94/9/ EC ATEX and Directive 97/23/EC PED. The skids can have several kinds of measuring principles: PD-meter, coriolis, turbine meter or ultrasonic meter. In the last six years the Company has manufactured about 200 fiscal skids for Romania, Kazakhstan, Jordan, Iran, and Libya.

Syscom 18 applies the requirements of the European Directive 94/63/EC for the control of emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC) resulting from the storage of petrol and its distribution from the terminals to the service stations. Thus, as system integrator, EPC or supplier of basic and detail engineering, Syscom 18 completed the implementation of vapor recovery installations and of bottom tanker loading in 17 deposits of petroleum products. The vapor recovery skids were based on the principle of separation membranes (Borsig) or active carbon (Jordan Technologies).

Briefly, the Company provides complete solutions for tank farms: from tank gauging and firefighting to SCADA/DCS/EDS etc.

“We have modern production facilities, including test and calibration facilities as well, and specialists in mechanical, welder, electrical and metrological areas.”, Mr. Ion Andronache adds.

Syscom 18 targets clients for terminal automation systems in Romania, North Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia.

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