August 2021, Vol. 248, No. 8
Features
A Case Study: Control Room Management as a Service
By Whitney Vandiver, Pipeline Compliance Specialist, NuGen Automation The traditional model of control room management (CRM) has operators managing infrastructure, personnel and daily operations internally. However, as technology has advanced and overhead costs have grown, operators have voiced their concerns about how prohibitive the costs of such a framework are becoming for daily operations. Table 1: Comparative cost savings for operational costs of internal and third-party control rooms for a mid-sized operator. In response, a new model of CRM and related operations has emerged to reduce operator costs, improve operationa

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