11th May 2004

GOOD NEWS FOR FOXBORO SCADA IN ITALY as they recently passed the Final Acceptance Test (FAT) for the UGDC Port Said - Damietta Gas pipeline project (Egypt).

This is excellent news, particularly from a Telecommunications viewpoint as it is the first project using Optical SDH technology (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) totally designed, developed and delivered by Foxboro SCADA Rome without using TLC (telecommunications) system integrators. 

This experience has demonstrated that this approach significantly improves the overall project margins and the project schedule as well as increasing customer satisfaction. 

Contact:  Fabio De Domenico

15th April 2004

SINOPEC Selects Invensys To Supply Advanced SCADA System For New Dispatching Center In Xuzhou

Invensys SCADA system will remotely monitor, supervise, and control three strategic pipelines in eastern China.

FOXBORO, MASSACHUSETTS – SINOPEC Corporation, China’s largest producer of petrochemicals and petroleum products, has awarded Shanghai-Foxboro Company Limited, an Invensys joint venture, an approximately US$500,000 turn-key contract to supply a Foxboro SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system for its new Dispatching Center, to be located in the Xuzhou area in eastern China. The system will monitor, supervise, and control three major, multi-product pipelines of strategic importance to SINOPEC’s core business operations.

The Foxboro SCADA system will interface with three existing third-party SCADA sub-systems to enable SINOPEC to gather, dispatch, transfer, and deliver its raw and finished products throughout this large and populous region in a safe, reliable, and cost-effective manner. Ultimately, the Foxboro SCADA system will be expanded to supervise all existing SINOPEC pipelines in China.

Invensys’ advanced SCADA solution for the new Dispatch Center will include an appropriate mix of Unix and Windows technologies, plus well-proven Foxboro SCADA applications to help increase safety, improve pipeline operations, and enhance maintenance. An embedded Web server will provide authorized SINOPEC individuals with secure, real-time access to real-time and historical pipeline information from anywhere in the world via either SINOPEC’s corporate intranet or the Internet.

About SINOPEC Corp.

China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC Corp.) is an integrated energy and chemical company headquartered in Beijing, China. The Company is one of the largest integrated energy and petrochemical companies in Asia. Its major physical assets are located in South-East China (its principle market), an area that has seen the highest economic growth in China and represents 75% of China’s GDP.

SINOPEC Corp. is China’s largest producer and wholesale and retail marketer of petroleum products (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel); largest producer and supplier of petrochemical products; and second largest crude oil and gas producer.

SINOPEC Corp. has more than 70 subsidiaries, either wholly or partially owned, in exploration and production, refining, chemicals, marketing, research, and foreign trade. For more information, visit:  www.sinopec.com.

About Shanghai-Foxboro Company Limited

With the formation of the Shanghai-Foxboro Company Limited (SFCL) in 1982, Foxboro (now part of Invensys) became the first major American manufacturer to establish a joint venture in China. Today, SFCL manufactures a wide variety of state-of-the-art automation products at its factory in Shanghai for both domestic use and export purposes. In 1991, SFCL became the first company in China to be certified under the stringent ISO 2001 international quality standard.

SFCL has implemented state-of-the-art process control systems in hundreds of different world-class industrial facilities throughout China. These include oil refineries, petrochemical plants, electric power generation plants, steel mills, cement plants, float glass plants, pharmaceutical plants, and food processing plants.

Contact: Paul Miller

24th October 2003