Location: Alberta
Category: Mining Sites
Category: Transmission and Distribution
The bitumen resource is estimated at 3.4 billion barrels and will be recovered by open-pit mining. First oil at this large oil sand project was achieved in January 2018. This open-pit mine plan has two main pits and a mine fleet capable of sustaining a production of 4500 tons of oil sand per hour.
Power system of the project includes:
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More than 50 Electrical Substations with voltage levels of 144 / 72 / 13.8 kV;
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More than one thousand Relay protection and control IEDs based on IEC61850 (ABB REx670; GE T60, C60, L90, C70, B95, F60, B30, F35; SEL-411L; SIEMENS-7SD522);
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All equipment is integrated and controlled with ABB MicroSCADA Pro, SYS600C computers are installed on every Substation. It is one of biggest distributed installation of MicroSCADA.
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Complex Mirroring configuration with Enormous number of MicroSCADA SYS600C installation.
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PRP configuration
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Complex VLAN configuration
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BCU redundancy
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Both PTP and SNTP time synchronization
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Full network supervision with SNMP
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Commissioning of the MicroSCADA 9.3 and RTU560 Automation Controller with Web-HMI based on IEC61850, Mirroring communication configuration between Substations.