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Sulzer develops new subsea pump SUBSEA PROCESSING IS a developing branch of oil and gas production that has been growing globally over the last two decades. Traditionally, subsea wells would be tied directly back to topside or landbased processing facilities, but by placing more processing equipment subsea, closer to the wells, significant cost and production advantages can be made. If a multiphase well stream is boosted using a multiphase pump, the reservoir back pressure is lowered and the final yield from the field increased. This boosted well stream can be tied into a distant onshore processing facility previously unreachable without the subsea boosting. With the use of a subsea separation system, instead of bringing produced water to the surface for treatment, hot produced water can easily be separated from the product and immediately re-injected at source. This significantly reduces the OPEX of running an ageing field. By using subsea water injection pumps, raw seawater injection can be done without the need for long risers and topside water treatment facilities, reducing the CAPEX of any project. To meet all of these applications, Sulzer, along with FMC Technologies, have fully qualified a 3.2MW, 5,000psi, 6,000rpm pump/motor system. At the heart of the machine is a high speed permanent magnet synchronous motor, faster than any other currently available. This is coupled with a fast acting mechanical barrier fluid system to reduce system complexity and umbilical size. All pump options have field proven Sulzer hydraulics. The multiphase pump design has pressure balancing technology to allow pressure rise potential in excess of 100 bar. These all combine to give game changing solutions to the subsea processing market.
Wood Group Intetech establishes global well performance database WOOD GROUP INTETECH (WG Intetech), a world leader in well integrity management, has developed a new software platform for analysing global well component reliability data. Called iQRA, the tool provides operators with valuable insight to make better, more informed decisions about the selection of well and oilfield components enhancing asset performance and safety. Responding to the industry demands to have ready access to a broad set of validated component reliability data, WG Intetech has designed a solution to harness this information in a single, secure location. Based on the ISO-14224 standard, iQRA supports critical decision making by giving users the ability to benchmark their reliability figures against a global dataset and extract safety critical element (SCE) failure statistics and mean-time-tofailure (MTF) data. iQRA is a feature-rich platform that comes with quality-assured, trustworthy data. The cloud-based tool allows users to construct their own queries and generate information instantly, from anywhere.
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