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Essar
Essar are a leading player in the UK’s Oil & Chemical industry. The group’s annual revenue exceeds US$35 billion. It’s Stanlow Refinery, which is located on the South side of the Mersey estuary near Ellesmere Port, has origins dating back to the 1920s, when Shell built a plant which blended and distributed imported oil products. Before long, the plant also began to manufacture bitumen and special solvents such as turpentine substitute.
Essar Oil (UK) Limited completed the acquisition of the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex from Shell in August 2011 and employs over 900 people, processing 9 million tonnes of crude per year. The site produces a range of oil products including about one sixth of Britain’s transport fuels annually – about 4.4 billion litres of diesel, 3 billion litres of petrol and 2 billion litres of jet fuel. As part of Essar’s ambition for Stanlow to become the UK’s first low carbon refinery, they are continually reviewing their procedures to improve efficiency and upgrading the associated process control instrumentation to optimise output. Essar have long favoured the revered Magnetrol range of guided wave radar (GWR) transmitters for various critical level applications across the refinery, including storage, dewatering, desalting, distillation, blending. Having previously deployed the Eclipse Model 706 GWR throughout the refinery, Essar has now embarked upon a program of upgrading to the current generation Eclipse 706. The 706 provides improved signal strength with best-in-class Signal-to-Noise Ratio and advanced diagnostics; the 706 supports both the FDT/DTM and Enhanced DD (EDDL) standards, which allow viewing of valuable configuration and diagnostic information such as the echo curve in tools such as PACTware ™, AMS Device Manager, and various HART® Field Communicators.