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BRINGING THE

OFFSHORE CLOSER:
ADVANCED MIGRATION
TECHNOLOGIES
AT WINTERSHALL
NOORDZEE
Case Study

Honeywell’s Advanced Migration


BENEFITS
Technologies (AMT) has significantly Using AMT, Wintershall Noordzee
cut the costs and effort for Wintershall and Honeywell’s teams were able

Noordzee DCS upgrades across eight of to work within the restrictions of


the pandemic while also delivering
its nine platforms off the Netherlands a faster and smoother upgrade
coast. Radically reducing travel and time to the latest release of Experion
PKS. It saved up to half the time
on site has enabled the operator to commit and engineering effort for each
to regular upgrades to ensure continual of the eight control systems
upgraded while radically reducing
support and consistency across its systems. travel and associated costs.

AMT reduced the time on site from


BACKGROUND CHALLENGES
five to eight days per platform to
Wintershall Noordzee B.V. based in In total, the platforms operated nine just two days. The traditional travel
Rijswijk, The Netherlands, was first Experion PKS control systems. Each of Wintershall Noordzee staff to
established in 1965 as Pennzoil was small, with four to five nodes and Honeywell offices for validation
Nederland Company, a pioneering two or three controllers on average. was eliminated entirely. And last
independent operator. Wintershall The difficulty and expense of offshore but not least, all this migration
Holding acquired the company in 1988, travel and work meant that previous could take place in parallel with
subsequently adding Clyde Petroleum upgrades were sporadic. With the the operations due to the benefits
to its portfolio in 2002 to create platforms unmanned, Wintershall of OPM (On Process Migration).
the basis of the company it is today. Noordzee waited until hardware The nodes also arrived on site with
Both Wintershall Dea and Gazprom obsolescence forced a change in the latest Microsoft OS patches
International are joint shareholders many cases. A migration in 2017 already installed, eliminating
of Wintershall Noordzee B.V. upgraded to then latest Experion another three to four hours for
R43X series controllers. By 2021, the each. Slashing the costs and work
All of its platforms are normally
sites were running a range of Experion involved, Wintershall Noordzee is
unmanned and are monitored
releases from R400 to R430. now planning on regular triannual
online from the mainland, at Den
Helder, where it has its centre for Wintershall Noordzee wanted to upgrades using AMT, regardless
Remote Controlled Operations (RCO). bring all sites to the latest version of hardware requirements, to
Wintershall Noordzee looked to (R511) to ensure continued support ensure continued support and
Honeywell to update multiple systems and standardized functionality the latest versions of Experion
at its offshore facilities to address across its operation. However, the PKS running across its sites.
obsolescence due to the withdrawal of planned upgrade schedule came in
Server 2008 and Windows 7 support. 2021 amid the pandemic which led
to consequent travel restrictions and
social distancing requirements. In lieu
of the situation, Honeywell proposed
to continue the upgrade process using
Advanced Migration technologies.

SOLUTION
Advanced Migration Technologies
(AMT) is Honeywell’s solution for
delivering pre migration images of
the Experion PKS nodes updated
to the new target release. Migration
Center of Excellence (MCoE) experts
perform control system upgrades
in Honeywell’s Virtual Engineering
Platform. This can be accessed by
Global Migration technical support
Advanced Migration Technologies download the data collection tool. This
specialists along with local Honeywell
draws on a range of new edge software automatically identified the system
staff and its customers at the site to
technologies to facilitate the migration: migration criticalities to be addressed
validate the migrated database before
• The Experion Migration Data before starting the collection.
implementation on live system.
Aggregator (EMDA) to collect site data The collected data was uploaded to
The Experion L2 node migration can be for analysis and target image build the Honeywell Datacenter, and its
done within the datacenter, with only • Automated FTE utility removes the Migration Center of Excellence then
the deployment of migrated system need for an FTE recovery procedure upgraded this to the latest release
images done onsite. The remainder of • Remote and provided the virtual validation.
the controller upgrade and I/O flashing • Validation Wintershall Noordzee staff downloaded
is done at the facility at a time that
the systems images and performed a
suits all parties. It enables fast, lower To use Advanced Migration technologies
local FAT before shipping the hardware
risk migrations while eliminating the for the Experion upgrade, the staff at
offshore for implementation.
costs, time, and logistical issues around the plant could register on the Experion
travel to and accommodation on site. migration assistance (EMA) portal and

For more information


For more information about our solutions
and services, visit process.honeywell.com or
contact your Honeywell Account Manager.

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CAS-22-24-EN I 06/22
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