For pipeline network, planning involves organizing pumping operations and deliveries to satisfy the customer's transportation requirements as fully as possible.
The planning applications developed by Trapil enable the Planning Team to draw up pumping plans that integrate all operating requirements for a multi-product pipeline network, such as planning design, hydraulic simulation and data distribution.

Designing a Pumping Plan involves:

• Taking into account estimated supplies at network dispatching points.

• Analyzing transportation requests made by customers; continuous tracking of orders incorporates both actual and forecast movements.

• Analyzing routing: actual and simulated freight position and situation of customer accounts.

• Providing s cheduling assistance for entry and exit product movements in line with order dates and operating mode.

• Setting an estimated delivery schedule.


Hydraulic Simulation

Hydraulic simulation applications accurately determine the progress of freight and in-pipe equipment such as pigs and spheres, making it possible to validate the planned scheduling.

Hydraulic simulation is used to prepare a schedule that incorporates physical and optimization constraints, such as identifying best-cost pumping configurations and achieving the highest flowrates.

Simulation matches the network operating mode and takes into account:

• Hydraulic constraints relating to entry and exit points and network topology.

• Constraints relating to station or section unavailability.

• Product compatibility rules (blends, contamination).

• Interconnection constraints between lines or different pipeline networks.


Data Transmission

Pumping plans are automatically forwarded internally and externally using different media:

• Fax.

• E-mail.

• Extranet.