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Honeywell has recently been awarded a $2.5 million contract from Japanese refinery, TonenGeneral Sekiyu, to oversee the Wakayama Control House Consolidation Project—which will combine the oil refinery’s existing process control operations into one central location. Additionally, TonenGeneral Sekiyu has selected Honeywell to monitor the projects for three other subcontractors who will manage distributed control system (DCS) relocation, civil structural, electrical, and instrumentation work. Honeywell also will provide its next-generation safety instrumented system (SIS), Honeywell Safety Manager™, to ensure safe start-up, operation and shutdown.

TonenGeneral Sekiyu, a Japanese affiliate of global oil and gas company ExxonMobil, produces 917,000 barrels of oil a day at sites at Kawasaki, Wakayama, and Sakai. The company operates a chain of gas stations across Japan under the Esso, General, and Mobil brands.

Existing plant operations at Wakayama are distributed into three control buildings. As a result, this requires a large number of operating personnel. The site will relocate both the DCS and SIS to the central house to improve communication among the operation teams and increase system reliability.

The system will employ Safety Manager—a component of Honeywell’s process control and automation platform, the Experion Process Knowledge System®.

“There is very little room for error in a project like this because it will directly impact the efficiency of the Wakayama facility’s operations and, therefore, the profitability of its business,” said Desmond Teo, vice president and regional manager for Honeywell Process Solutions Asia Pacific. “This consolidation will streamline the Wakayama refinery’s operations, make its processes more efficient, and help it safely maintain and increase production.”