I Googlied: "PLC and DCS" and this is what I found:
http://ecmweb.com/mag/electric_plc_dcs_better/
To me, if it's a gas distrubution network, I would guess you would want a more 'smarter' system than a fairly limited PLC system and therefore you would want a DCS. The article talks a bit more about them.
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