Case Study April 2016 D352383X012 Business and Operational Integration for a Gas Pipeline David Reed, Emerson (formerly Energy Solutions Int’l.) Olga Narvaez, Emerson Alexandre Tepedino and Caetano Frisoli, Transpetro Abstract The purpose of this paper is to show how a pipeline company can integrate its operational and commercial practices into a real-time environment that will allow safe, effi cient, and profi table operations. Operational pipeline modeling/management, SCADA, and commercial transaction systems can be combined to provide hydraulic validations of business transactions and provide a real-time and forward look at pipeline expectations. This helps pipeline companies better manage oil and gas shipments on a real-time basis and to comply with issues of restructuring and reg

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