ONGC Ltd has gone into a Rs 430 contract with ABB, the world pioneer in force and mechanization advancements, for an undertaking wide SCADA framework to empower checking, control and ongoing resource administration.

The agreement was formally marked, in New Delhi, by M. Thyagaraj, Chief Infocom, ONGC Ltd, and Biplab Majumdar, President, Automation Technology Division, ABB India.

The agreement goes for giving a venture wide Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) framework for ONGC's generation and boring offices.

This framework will empower ONGC to incorporate its advantages, bowls, plants, forward bases and different resources for the corporate server farm, encouraging 'whenever anyplace' access to information and continuous execution administration.

ABB's business sector driving SCADA framework for the oil and gas industry, the three-level arrangement is intended to give handle work force, control room administrators and senior administration with quick data on the execution of creation resources scattered over normally huge geographic territories.

Level 1 empowers field agents to screen and investigate the execution of generation and handling hardware and offices.

Level 2 screens, controls and deals with every benefit from its doled out control focus.

Level 3 gives ONGC base camp key information to empower fast basic leadership taking into account exact data from the field.

The activity will enhance ONGC's execution and effectiveness of geologically scattered generation and penetrating offices, both inland and seaward, spread over the mainland.

The turnkey undertaking is required to be finished before the end of 2007. The agreement envelops site study, framework outline, designing, supply, establishment and charging of an incorporated three-level SCADA framework, and is comprehensive of a six-year post-guarantee Annual Maintenance Services Contract.