According to the International Energy Agency’s most recent Oil Market Report, global oil demand averaged 93.3 million b/d in this year’s first half, up 1.6 million b/d on the year and 400,000 b/d above the estimate in last month’s report. Global demand for the whole year is forecast to average 94 million b/d, 1.4 million b/d up on the year and 300,000 b/d higher than in last month’s OMR.

“Since bottoming out at a 5-year low in second-quarter 2014, global oil demand growth has steadily increased, as additional economic growth, colder-than-year-earlier European winter weather conditions and more recently price effects have filtered through,” IEA said. However, momentum is expected to ease somewhat in this year’s second half, assuming a return to normal weather conditions and given a recent partial recovery in oil prices.

While Wonderware has been around for quite some time, the ArchestrA Platform hit its stride when the Systems Platform 3.0 was released in 2007.  ArchestrA is an object oriented Industrial Application Platform, which has been built based upon the IEEE object oriented standard.  ArchestrA utilizes many of the fundamental aspects of object oriented technology, which can deliver cost savings, as well as help build standards within an organization.  In a white paper titled The Benefits of Object-Based Architectures for SCADA and Supervisory Systems, author Steven D. Garbrecht, states that he believes that [1] “mature object-based architectures can deliver cost savings of up to 80% over tag-based systems”.

Throughout 2012 and the first quarter of 2013, Northern Digital developed and implemented a fully integrated Control SCADA System for the 19Z lease in the San Joaquin Valley. Our team of engineers worked closely with our client and several contractors to bring this project from the initial design meetings to fiber optics networking, panel design and fabrication, PLC and SCADA programming and Startup.

Northern Digital Incorporated (NDI) was the selected Control Systems Consultant / Control Systems Engineering Firm for the expansion of the Water Purification Plant (WPP). This included associated pumping facilities and electrical facilities including raw water pump station, flash mix facilities, flocculation and sedimentation basins, filters, a finished water clearwell, chemical feed facilities, and upgrade modifications to existing facilities.