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Guaranteeing System Safety
With Maximum Performance

Cear, with Premabergo Italiana, was involved in the construction of two
automation systems for two electrochlorination packages on a platform
in India, operated by the company Oil & Natural Gas Corporation

Alessandra Ranno
Marketing Manager, Costruzioni Elettrotecniche Cear Srl

Oil platforms are very impressive gas sector both in off-shore and on-shore Fig. 1 - The platform
facilities built or assembled near environments, and has already dealt with the typical in India
oil wells and, for this reason, in needs required for electrical installations and
addition to being exposed to automation in systems at risk of explosion. Based on
explosion risks,
this specific know-how, the
they must also The main requirement of company has been able to develop
perform the task of providing our customer was to have projects and solutions that meet
multipurpose facilities and the power and control customer needs.
structures to accommodate the system installed on each Cear, in collaboration with its
workers and equipment needed for electrochlorination skid. customer Premabergo Italiana,
production. For these reasons, This requirement involved was involved from the early stages
platforms are a hostile environment the need to think of an Ex of the tender and in the feasibility
in which to operate, where it p pressurized PLC panel study for the construction of two
becomes essential to maintain and therefore able to operate automation systems for the
ensure high levels of safety and in the hazardous zone management of two

reliability both for systems and electrochlorination packages, on a

installed equipment. platform in India operated by the company Oil &

Over the course of many years, Costruzioni Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (figure 1).

Elettrotecniche Cear has been operating in the oil & The supply was not limited to the manufacturing of

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