Fuel detect illegal taps immediately … – Televisa News

MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Tues. 04 2015.- daily in Mexico, are transported one million 200 thousand barrels of crude oil for refining.

The finished products such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from refineries out and brought to 77 storage and distribution terminals which are distributed in the country, 8000 400 kilometers of pipelines across Mexico: from Rosarito, Baja California, to the Yucatan Peninsula

For control and supervision, Petroleos Mexicanos. Scada features, software that allows you to manage remote industrial processes. Through him, have been detected almost 7000 illegal taps in the last two years.

Before the implementation of Scada, in November 2012, when Pemex detected a clandestine decision, took to close a valve about 3 hours. Today takes 5-6 minutes: the anomaly is detected immediately and the valve closure is done by computer

are reviewed on an ongoing basis the pressure and flow.. When there is a variation, operators check whether it is due to operational movements …

Otherwise, there is a spill or a subtraction.

Here in the Monitoring and Control Center Mexico, Pemex facilities, coordinates in real time 24 hours 365 days a year, the pipeline network of national refining system.

During the minutes Televisa News remained inside the center was a report of a fault:. a pipeline in which transports gasoline recorded a drop in pressure and flow

You can identify the exact kilometer of the 8000 400 kilometers of pipelines, where there is a leak.

Previously, products were monitored in each of the pumping stations, and this information was provided to the drivers that were regionalised. Today, everyone is focused.

With the closing of valves, the impact on the environment, communities, and at the same time prevents fuel theft is reduced, thereby ensuring that products such as gasoline and diesel stations reach service, better known as gas stations.

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