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    A centralized data repository helps PetroSA extend well field life and generate revenue

    As the national oil company of South Africa, PetroSA's business spans the entire petroleum value chain. The company refines diesel, gasoline, kerosene, and specialty products as well as more than 1 Tcf of natural gas. Although PetroSA has used the PI System for over 20 years, it recently re-evaluated its role while centralizing and standardizing a diverse range of operational and business functions. PetroSA's Senior Business Architect Rubin Boer discussed the impact of evolving the PI System from historian to real-time operational repository had on overall performance of PetroSA's operational and business processes.

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    Sinopec: The Journey to Operational Excellence

    Sinopec Argentina E&P is an oil and gas company in the San Jorge Gulf of Southern Argentina. It has about eight thousand wells in eight areas; in Mendoza, Chubut, and Santa Cruz and a head office in Buenos Aires. In his presentation, Adrián Pavesi, head of the automation team, described the company's first steps with the PI System and their later Enterprise Agreement where the PI System was deployed in all of the company's fields. Two years ago Sinopec began working with OSIsoft and the PI System. The presentation aims to demonstrate two realities. The first is “a mall-scale pilot project that served to leverage the tool (PI System),” and the second is “how we are working with the Enterprise Agreement that we signed, starting with the benefits we were able to obtain from the first deployment,” said Mr. Pavesi.

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    Dell Accelerates the Deployment of Hyperscale MDCs with Embedded PI Systems

    At data centers in Utah and Arizona, e-commerce giant eBay has developed a data storage solution to ensure that data critical to their commercial operation is always available. However, with eBay's data growing exponentially, these data centers must scale as quickly as the data does. To meet eBay's requirements for data center scalability and data availability, eBay has partnered with Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS), the #1 OEM hyperscale server provider, and OSIsoft. In a presentation at OSIsoft's 2015 Users Conference, Dwayne Kalma, the Data Center and Network Software Engineer for eBay, and Tyler Duncan, the Principal Thermal and Controls Engineer for Dell, explained how “the combined partnership of eBay, Dell, and OSIsoft's EA team has given us the tools needed to revolutionize the industry for Modular Data Center deployments, incorporating specialty system knowledge from each group, which altogether lead us to a more efficient, scalable, rapidly deployable integration". 

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    Building Customer Relationships Based on Data and Trust

    How can genetic biotechnology, an ethanol plant and operational data benefit an entire community? Syngenta is a global company with more than 29,000 employees in 90 countries and revenues of over $14 billion USD. By delivering seeds, seed care, and lawn and garden products, its mission is to bring plant potential to life, supporting a sustainable transformation in farming productivity and communities. 

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    Achieving Real-Time Situational Awareness

    In his presentation, Raúl Cubillo, Operations Manager for CENACE, the technical and commercial administrator of Ecuador's wholesale electricity market, described how CENACE is applying Real-Time Situational Awareness concepts and techniques - through configuration models and visualization - to give operators contextualized information for decision-making.

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    Improving decision making at AES Tietê with data

    One of the world's most important energy producing companies, AES generates and distributes electricity in 17 countries, employing around 21,000 people around the globe and serving over 10 million customers. In Brazil, the group's operations are divided into five different companies: AES Eletropaulo, AES Ergos, AES Sul, AES Uruguaiana, and AES Tietê. At the 2016 LATAM Regional Conference, Carlos Macedo, operations engineer at AES Tietê, describes the company's operations and how the PI System was used to streamline decision-making, minimizing risks and optimizing the operation of power plants at the AES Tietê division.