Gas storage site in Fronhofen: now centrally operate
Since last week, Storengy Deutschland GmbH operates its sixth and last natural gas storage site in Fronhofen via the central control room in Hanover.
This means that a total of seven storage sites - six own sites and one from a third party - are now connected with the control room.
The step-by-step planning for the implementation of a centralized technical dispatching in Hanover has been running since 2016. The storage sites in Peckensen and Schmidhausen were already connected to remote monitoring in 2018. On May 9, 2019, the central control room moved from Dötlingen to Hanover.
Technical dispatching is an essential pillar in storage operations. Natural gas storage facilities are monitored and controlled around the clock, and measures to manage incidents are coordinated. In addition, technical dispatching acts as a "constantly manned position" according to mining law and therefore has a central role in emergency management.
"We rely on digital technologies and state-of-the-art processes that enable us to optimize operating and maintenance activities and make them as efficient as possible," says Dr. Horst Hirschhausen, managing director of Storengy Deutschland Betrieb GmbH.
In addition to the process control systems, a digital radio system, a digital shift log and the TeBIS tool are used to record the process data. This means that the large distances between dispatching and the storage facilities can be overcome using the latest technology. This ensures that everyone involved always has up-to-date data.
Do you have any questions about the technical dispatching? Please do not hesitate to contact Torsten Bührig, head of division pore storage operations / technical dispatching: torsten.buehrig@storengy.de
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