UAE oil refiner optimizes field collaboration, production awareness, and operational excellence Customer Name: TAKREER Industry: Oil and Gas Location: United Arab Emirates Business Impact • Increased productivity through improved access to tools and information • Greater collaboration between plant and field workers • Real-time insight into sensor data and processes

1. Creating Borderless Oil and Gas Platform
UAE oil refiner optimizes field collaboration, production awareness,
and operational excellence.
Customer Name: TAKREER Business Impact
Industry: Oil and Gas • Increased productivity through improved access to
tools and information
Location: United Arab Emirates
• Greater collaboration between plant and field workers
• Real-time insight into sensor data and processes
Case Study
Business Challenge Solution and Results Partner Profile
The Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (TAKREER) was Working with the ABB Group, TAKREER’s lead contractor, Site Technology employs over 1700 people in six different
established in 1999 as a public joint-stock company. It Cisco partner Site Technology helped develop and locations: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Riyadh, Doha, Beirut, and Paris.
specializes in the refining of crude oil and condensate, implement a Cisco® Borderless Network. Specially With specializations in all Cisco architectures, Site
the supply of petroleum products, and the production of customized for oil and gas companies, the solution provides Technology was the first Cisco partner in the UAE to gain the
granulated sulfur. a platform to integrate communications and applications in a Data Center and Virtualization standard. Leveraging its
way that delivers significant improvements in three critical expertise in turnkey solutions, the company specializes in
As part of a major development program, the TAKREER
areas: field collaboration, production awareness, and improving the way that consumers and businesses perform:
Ruwais Refinery Expansion, the company is building a new
operational excellence. reducing complexity, increasing productivity, and making
refinery based on the latest industry innovations, including a
procedures more cost effective.
gas oil hydrotreater, hydrocracking unit, and a vacuum unit, By its very nature, refinery operational areas are hazardous
to make low-sulfur fuel. spaces in which movements and activities of all personnel
need to be closely tracked and controlled. Productivity and
Key requirements for the new refinery included a state-of-the-
workforce safety are significantly improved by optimising the “In addition to coming up with a first-class
art IT infrastructure, providing 50 buildings and remote workers solution, Site Technology also flew in subject-
availability and delivery of applications to help ensure
with instant access to communications and tools, including
Enterprise Resource Management and seismic profiling
employees receive the information that they need to safely experts to help train local engineers on Cisco
applications. To help ensure compliance with TAKREER’s high
go about their work. products and operating the new network.”
standards for health and safety, the network also needed to TAKREER can now gain greater insight by securely networking
TAKREER
support video and IP closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras sensor data and transforming it into operations intelligence.
in the future. Examples could include using the network to measure process
health: temperature, pressure, vibration, corrosion, emissions, For More Information
spill, leaks, and other key indicators.
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