Amarinth has delivered two separate orders of API 610 pumps, collectively worth £1.2 million, for the West Qurna-2 enlargement venture in Iraq.
One of the Amarinth API 610 OH1 pumps with specialist Plan 53B seal assist system previous to cargo to Cannon Artes.
West Qurna-2, situated roughly sixty five km north-west of the seaport town of Basra, is among the world’s greatest onshore oilfields. The enlargement project is anticipated to increase the oilfield’s production capability from the present 400,000 barrels oil per day (bpd) to 480,000 bpd, with a goal to achieve a complete manufacturing capability of 800,000 bpd by 2025.
The first order, from Cannon Artes, was for seven tremendous duplex API 610 OH1 pumps. The bespoke designed pumps are for a low shear application and required specialist Plan 53B seal assist techniques incorporating air cooled seals and stainless-steel accumulators. All electrical gadgets have been IECEx certified for use in an ATEX Zone 2 hazardous space. Despite the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic during the design and manufacture, supply was achieved in the required time of just 32-weeks from order.
เกจแรงดัน , from SICIM, was for 3 tremendous duplex API 610 OH3 vertical in-line pumps for produced water treatment. The large pumps had impellers of over 500mm diameter and the casings, that weigh 1.5 tonnes, have been cast in a foundry within the UK. Plan 53B seal support systems were designed to fit inside a constrained footprint and as the pumps had been destined for an ATEX Zone 2 space, the motors, seal help methods, and instrumentation had been IECEx certified. Witness testing and inspection was undertaken by Bureau Veritas and a full legalised Iraq documentation package deal was delivered with the pumps. Delivery was achieved on a brief 38-weeks, regardless of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic.
Oliver Brigginshaw, managing director of Amarinth, said: “We are delighted to have delivered these pumps to the West Qurna-2 expansion challenge, additional underlining our commitment to projects in Iraq and the Middle East. We have efficiently delivered orders beforehand to Cannon Artes, but this was the primary order Amarinth has received from SICIM, and we sit up for undertaking further business with them sooner or later.”
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