CHS Inc has selected Invensys to implement an InFusion-based supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system for Front Range Pipeline, LLC and Cenex Pipeline, LLC. These pipelines transport crude oil to the CHS refinery in Laurel, MT, and refined products to markets east, including eastern Montana and North Dakota.

The new system integrates existing third-party PLCs and monitors and controls the data from 15 pumping stations along the two pipelines. Communications are via a Wide Area Network (WAN) utilizing fiber optic, VSAT, and dial-up links with the different pumping stations.

InFusion View provides the graphical human machine interface (HMI) for operator visualization in the main control center located in Laurel, as well as at each of the 15 pumping stations.

InFusion Access and Historian collect and monitor real-time pipeline data from a wide range of device types at the 15 pumping stations and provide an interface to a centralized third-party historian package for long term data storage.

The new InFusion enterprise control system combines industry-leading capabilities from across Invensys with advanced enterprise information and integration technologies from both Microsoft and SAP to dramatically reduce integration costs. With InFusion technology, most existing plant floor and enterprise systems can now be cost-effectively integrated into a common system. In conjunction with a suite of new performance services, Invensys' InFusion system will help industrial enterprises more effectively align plant operations and maintenance departments with the business to optimize overall asset performance management.

The Invensys Liquid Pipeline SCADA System replaces two existing SCADA systems, including a legacy Invensys system. The Infusion-based system provides CHS with a more flexible, easier-to-deploy, standards-based data acquisition and business decision support platform that will be able to adapt to future changes in asset configuration and the dynamic pipeline market.

CHS Inc is a diversified energy, grains, and foods company committed to providing essential resources that enrich lives. CHS is owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Northwest and from the Canadian border to Texas, along with preferred stockholders.