Dolphin Master Control Station for
High-Reliability Subsea Control

ENGlobal/CDI offers the Dolphin™ Master Control Station (MCS), the world’s only packaged solution that can be quickly configured to any subsea control project for oil and gas platforms.

The Dolphin MCS forms the core of an intelligent subsea control system for off-shore oil and gas production platforms. Dolphin MCS combines industry proven, fault-tolerant GE Intelligent Platform (GE-IP) hardware with ENGlobal/CDI’s extensive control system experience to create the most robust system available today.

Flexible, powerful and reliable
The Dolphin MCS is designed to be both flexible and powerful. It is compatible with numerous interfaces and easy to use from both operations and maintenance perspectives. The Dolphin MCS retrieves each subsea data point, allowing operations to maximize field production rates at all times. As a result, reservoir engineers have critical, real-time data available to them to optimize long-term payoffs of their fields.

Meeting the offshore industry’s requirement for the highest degree of system availability, the Dolphin MCS is built on GE’s proven control system architecture, providing complete, fault-tolerant redundancy throughout, removing any single point of failure. This architecture ensures end-user uptimes greater than 99.99%, along with lower life-cycle cost.  

Reducing risk, increasing capability
The Dolphin MCS is comprised of a core set of software functions, with additional features and options that are available on a project-by-project basis. The system reduces both project risk and cost by providing an engineered solution from a defined architecture and set of software components.

The system’s HMI architecture is based on GE’s redundant human-machine interface (HMI) Cimplicity technology.  The redundant system provides a hot backup, where one server is actively polling the controllers for data and serving data to the clients. 

The Dolphin MCS is comprised of a set of core graphics with a variety of control pop-ups, trending screens, and alarm handling.  Screens can be quickly configured to project-specific requirements using GE’s HMI software.

ENGlobal/CDI's ISO 9001:2008 certified engineering methodology provides designs that incorporate the best technology available to meet or exceed the stringent demands of subsea applications. Through the Dolphin solution, custom programming is minimized, enabling users to maintain the system in the field.   

To assure maximum uptime of the Dolphin MCS, ENGlobal/CDI also provides a full range of lifetime support options, from telephone support to proactive, secure I-net based system monitoring and software upgrades.  Other intelligent subsea control systems are available from ENGlobal/CDI including Dolphin™ - IWOCS, Dolphin™ - EPU and Dolphin™ - HPU.