BP has selected Honeywell’s Industry Solutions business, along with Mustang Automation and Control, as the control system vendor and integration supplier for the planned development of the BP Deepwater Development fields in the Gulf of Mexico. Honeywell will supply control system hardware and software, management information systems interface and ongoing maintenance services for a minimum of four deepwater development projects in the Gulf of Mexico. The project is valued at USD 13.9 million. The innovative relationship Honeywell formed with Mustang Automation and Control of Houston, Texas, a leading systems integrator in the oil and gas industry, enabled the creation of an integrated project team to provide integration services for the projects. Under terms of the agreement, Honeywell will provide PlantScape(R) open control system hardware and software. PlantScape is the only system in the industry to use Distributed Server Architecture, which lets geographically dispersed PlantScape systems share real-time data hence integrating the various operations and sub-systems of the project. The offering also includes Uniformance(R) PHD, Honeywell’s unified approach for supporting mission-critical business functions in numerous industrial markets, which will link to BP’s management information systems. Honeywell will be involved in project implementation through commissioning and first oil in 2004-2007. All four of the large fields mentioned above will begin production by 2007.
