Turbomachinery Control Systems

With over a half-century of experience and thousands of installations worldwide, Petrotech provides customized control system solutions in a full-service turnkey package, from engineering concept to installation, commissioning, and customer support. Headquartered in New Orleans, LA and serving customers across the world, we are able to meet worldwide safety and electrical protection regulations. When you work with our team, you don't just get a product, you get a solution.

Industries We Serve

We work with industries and in markets all along the power production pipeline. Whether you need a control system for a generator on an offshore platform or require gas turbine controls for a hydroelectric power plant, we can provide a solution to improve the efficiency and throughput of your specific application. The markets where we serve our customers include the following sectors:

Learn more about the specific systems we provide for our industries.

New Equipment and Retrofit Applications

With thousands of installations and over 10 million operating hours, we supply complete turnkey solutions for your most critical equipment to minimize downtime, increase reliability, and improve the efficiency of your operation. Our advanced diagnostic algorithms predict equipment behavior and provide information to help prevent unplanned or emergency breakdowns. Our project engineers have a thorough understanding of process parameters, instrumentation, and auxiliary systems to ensure your project runs smoothly. And, with our Open Architecture model, our customers receive a seamless integration into their systems, lower initial and ongoing support costs, and reliability and ease of upgrade.

Examples of gas and steam turbines, generator control systems, reciprocating compressor controls, and auxiliary control systems from Petrotech in North America

Some of our applications include but are not limited to the following:

Gas & Steam Turbine Controls
Turbo Compressor Anti-Surge, Loadshare, and Performance Controls
Reciprocating and Diesel Engine Controls
Generator Control Systems
Hydroelectric Turbine Control Systems
Auxiliary Systems
Reciprocating Compressor Controls

Explore the full line of applications we provide.

Personalized Customer Support

We're based on the business of helping our customers be more efficient in their operations. We've never been interested in simply providing a product—we provide solutions. As such, our full turnkey services include support from engineering design, project management, and control panel fabrication to system integration, site I&E services, commissioning, startup, training, and aftermarket technical support. We also perform a customer factory acceptance test of your control system with a full simulation, providing your engineers and operators with hands-on training before installation.

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Advantages of a Petrotech Control System Application

Mature Application Design – proven over the years on numerous machinery types and models.
Integrate Control Systems to a Higher Level of Implementation – our project engineers have a thorough understanding of process parameters, instrumentation and auxiliary systems.
Investment in Technology – by evaluating and testing new hardware platforms as soon as they become available.
True Turnkey Scope for Project Execution – reduces client risk and includes all installation labor and materials.
Project Implementation – our ability to meet deadlines and complete projects during customer shutdown periods.
Excellent Project Scope Control – eliminates cost overruns during projects.
Customer Factory Acceptance Test of Control System with Full Simulation – an excellent opportunity for your engineers and operators to have hands-on training before installation.
Commissioning, Startup, Customer Training and all After-Market Services

An open control system cabinet from Petrotech in Europe

Case Studies

We believe in keeping our customers updated on all of our product designs and industry findings with our diverse literature library. By evaluating and testing new hardware platforms as soon as they become available, we continually show our investment in technology in the rotating machinery control system market. With extensive experience in providing control systems for a variety of turbomachinery and reciprocating machines, we've amassed a vast amount of white papers and product specifications for our customers to view and verify.

Visit our literature library to see our industry white papers.

Testimonials

We stand by our ability to meet deadlines and complete projects within our customers' timelines. We're always flexible, consistently engaged, and accept nothing but the most optimum solution to your problem.

“The bottom-line is that the project ($10M US total) was completed on time and on budget. This would have not been possible without the excellent performance of Petrotech and the integration of their personnel with mine. …Petrotech rose to the occasion with flying colors.”
Reliant Energy (An NRG Company)
“A Project-Leading Engineer was installed from the beginning on to assure that all steps where technically supervised and finished within the time schedule. During one week the complete system was tested and analyzed by the customer’s engineers. Due to the outstanding PETROTECH testing facility all customer’s questions could finally be satisfied and the Panels where fully accepted and ready for delivery. Thanks to the good and flexible collaboration with PETROTECH the project was successfully brought to customer’s satisfaction.”
ME Ingenieur Dienstleistungen
“We would like to express our appreciation for Petrotech commitment and successful completion of Project 8211 (Upgrading of Power Generation Control System (UTI A&B). The whole project was carried out professionally without any incident (48,000 Man-hours) delivering fully the intended objectives of the subject project. The success of this project would not have been possible without the team spirit and cooperation among all concerned which prevailed throughout the different project phases and we look forward to the prospect of further cooperation in the future.”
ZADCO (Zakum Development Company)
“I have found Petrotech to be very knowledgeable about any system that we have asked them to build and install for us. They have a complete program that includes engineering, design and manufacturing, customer involvement in factory acceptance tests, on-site installation and startup support, documentation support and after-installation technical support 24 hours a day. Petrotech has provided us with what we needed, when we needed it and gave it to us the way we wanted it.”
British Petroleum Exploration of Alaska
“On both jobs, large and small, the commissioning was performed in a professional manner, and I would certainly consider Petrotech for any future commissioning work.”
Gill Ranch Storage

Why Petrotech

Over the years, we've proven our expertise on numerous machinery types and models. By working with our team for your turbomachinery and rotating machinery control system application and installation, you can eliminate cost overruns and simplify and streamline your operations with advanced diagnostic algorithms found in our software, all while keeping your workers safe.