Offshore Oil & Gas Solutions
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Fluminense FPSO - Bijupira oil field
Off the coast of Brazil the FPSO Fluminense is developing the Bijupira oil field. Reservoir pressure is maintained by the high-pressure injection of seawater using heavy duty MV motor driven pumps. Solcon was called upon to soft-start these seven 6.6KV motors.
TPS-Thyristor Power Supply
The worlds first digital Thyristor Power Supply Temperature controller allowing continuous automatic temperature control while eliminating contactor switching and over or under heating.
Modec-Venture 11 - Driving seawater injection pumps
Extruding crude oil from under the ocean floor requires the pumping of vast amounts of seawater into the cavity under the ocean floor in order to create pressure to force the crude out and up towards the ocean's surface.
Berge Helena - Chinguetti oil field
The Chinguetti oil field, off the west coast of Mauritania, will be developed by the converted tanker ship Berge Helene (owner: Bergessen Offshore). The gas compressors, seawater injection pumps, hot oil and emergency fire pumps will be soft started by Solcon's HRVS-DN Medium Voltage Soft-Starters.
Petrojarl I FPSO - Water injection pump
The Glitne oil field, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, is being developed by the Floating Production Storing and Offloading vessel designed by Golar Nor and built by NKK shipyards. (owner: Statoil). The water injection pump is soft started by the HRVS-DN.
Mumbai South Platform, India - Driving Centrifugal Booster Gas Compressors
160Km off the coast of Bombay the Oil & Natural Gas Corporation of India is developing the Mumbai oil field. Engineers designing the project called on Solcon to soft-start these four 11KV 3.8MW motors powering Centrifugal Booster Gas Compressors.
