BP refinery selects Emerson's process equipment performance monitoring solution

Success at other BP operating sites leads to further investment in e-fficiency^®

Teesside, United Kingdom (4 March 2002) — BP has awarded a contract to Emerson Process Management for use of its e-fficiency equipment performance monitoring solution at the Coryton Refinery in the U.K. The project builds on the success Emerson have experienced with BP, where e-fficiency has been applied to monitor process equipment on the North Everest, Lomond, Cleeton, and Valhall production fields in the North Sea.

As a key element of Emerson's Asset Optimization family of services and software, e-fficiency delivers web-based performance monitoring of process and mechanical equipment and is designed to improve the availability and reliability of equipment, and increase productivity with improved maintenance management decisions.

This project builds on the track record of success with previous BP investments where e-fficiency has delivered significant benefits including:

• Pinpointing poor equipment performance resulting in corrective maintenance activity that increased production by over $3M per annum.
• Optimization of maintenance activities leading to fewer equipment downtimes and accelerated production of more than $1.5M per annum.
• Early detection of catastrophic failures of key pieces of equipment, saving millions of dollars in lost production and repair costs.
• Identification of faulty instruments and subsequent prevention of incorrect and potentially costly actions based on bad data.

e-fficiency will be used by BP to monitor the operating performance of propane compressors and back pressure steam turbines on the lube leg unit at the refinery. BP will access the performance indicators via a secure Internet connection, and refinery personnel will use the information primarily to optimize the operating performance of the process equipment. e-fficiency will also track the cost of performance degradation and highlight any potential causes of downtime and production inefficiency.

Jerry Whittaker, Mechanical Reliability Engineer for the BP Coryton refinery, commented, "Using e-fficiency will provide us with a complete monitoring overview of the equipment critical to the Lubes units. We'll be able to keep equipment performing at design levels and by doing so improve their efficiency and reliability."

"e-fficiency meets BP's requirement for a superior system providing highly accurate performance information coupled with fulfilling the plant's immediate need for an easy to implement solution," continued Jerry. "e-fficiency directly complements condition monitoring used at the refinery to provide underlying performance improvement, cost savings, and more reliable operation."

Emerson's Asset Optimization solutions bring together a unique combination of world-class services and innovative technologies to help users make significant and continuous improvements in asset performance. Supporting this key functionality, Emerson's PlantWeb^® digital plant architecture delivers information on asset reliability and performance to people who run the business. Asset Optimization solutions improve plant availability, increase productivity and reduce equipment cost-of-ownership across the full spectrum of plant assets including mechanical equipment, process equipment, electrical and power systems, field devices, and personnel development.

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St. Louis-based Emerson is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions to customers in process control; electronics and telecommunications; industrial automation; heating, ventilating and air conditioning; and appliances and tools. Sales in fiscal 2001 were $15.5 billion.

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