Intergraph® Wins Contract with Santos for SmartPlant® Enterprise for Owner Operators

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Intergraph^® has won a contract with leading Australian energy company Santos for the use of SmartPlant^® Enterprise for Owner Operators (SPO), along with other SmartPlant Enterprise solutions. Santos will use Intergraph technology to manage its existing facilities and those in its GLNG project in Queensland, Australia.

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Santos GLNG will use world-leading technology to process coal seam gas into liquefied natural gas. The project is a partnership between Santos (operator), PETRONAS, Total and KOGAS. For this major project, Santos undertook a thorough technical evaluation of the available solutions on the market and selected Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise because of its integrated project life-cycle approach, which is aligned with Santos's vision to support the growth of its business. Santos was also impressed by Intergraph's commitment with dedicated support throughout the implementation process and providing customization for Santos GLNG's specific project requirements.

SPO enables Santos to address interoperability issues, while enhancing plant safety and reliability, quality and productivity. In addition to SPO, Santos has implemented SmartPlant 3D, SmartPlant Foundation, SmartPlant Instrumentation, SmartPlant Electrical, SmartPlant P&ID and Leica Geosystems laser scanning solutions, and also used the Intergraph Data Conversion Center for converting P&ID drawings into intelligent data. Besides the GLNG project, Santos will also use these design and engineering solutions for the entire life cycle of its facilities for both greenfield and brownfield projects, with plans to extend these solutions to its existing facilities within the Asia-Pacific region.

Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine president, said, "Leading owner operators around the world use Intergraph solutions successfully. Santos, a major Australian owner operator, has chosen to adopt SmartPlant Enterprise for Owner Operators and the integrated suite of SmartPlant Enterprise solutions. This partnership validates Intergraph's global leadership in the oil and gas industry, and the growing number of owner operators adopting Intergraph technology worldwide."

Leading plant owners choose SPO to enable them to rapidly implement Intergraph's preconfigured business processes to support both CAPEX and OPEX phases of the plant life cycle. SPO is specifically designed for asset owners with an integrated suite of design and data management solutions to enhance plant safety, reliability and interoperability, while ensuring information integrity across the owner operator system landscape.

The ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analyst firm, ranked Intergraph the No. 1 overall engineering design 3D software and process engineering tools (PET) provider worldwide according to its "PET Worldwide Outlook Market Analysis and Forecast through 2015."

About Santos

Santos has been an Australian energy pioneer since 1954 and is one of the country's leading gas producers, supplying Australian and Asian customers. Santos has been providing Australia with natural gas from the remote outback for more than 40 years, and today is one of the largest producers of natural gas for the Australian domestic market. The company has also developed major oil and liquids businesses in Australia and operates in all mainland Australian states and the Northern Territory. From this base, Santos is pursuing a transformational liquefied natural gas (LNG) strategy with interests in exciting LNG projects. This strategy is led by the cornerstone GLNG project in Queensland – a leading project in converting coal seam gas into LNG. Santos has also built a strong and reliable production business in Indonesia and is further developing its Asian business through development projects and exploration investment. The company has about 2,800 employees working across its operations in Australia and Asia. www.santos.com

About Intergraph

Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph's industry-specific software to organize vast amounts of data to make processes and infrastructure better, safer and smarter. The company's software and services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world.

Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I). Intergraph PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design, construction, operation and data management of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially powered solutions, including ERDAS technologies, to the public safety and security, defense and intelligence, government, transportation, photogrammetry, and utilities and communications industries. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intergraph Corporation responsible for the SG&I U.S. federal business.

Intergraph is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon AB (Nordic exchange: HEXA B). For more information, visit www.intergraph.com and www.hexagon.com.  

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