Aggreko
completes largest load test in Middle East
Posted: 22 March 2004
- Aggreko supplies 35MVA load bank package to NPCC for conducting
performance testing during turbine commissioning
- Simultaneous load testing for turbines installed on Shell Production
Platforms (SPP1-1 and NPP2) at NPCC fabrication yards, Abu Dhabi
and Iran
- Load bank package for SPP1-1 Platform, was delivered, installed
and commissioned within two days signing the contract.
- Production platforms currently located at Shell Nowrooz and
Soroosh Oil Fields, offshore Iran
Aggreko, global leader in providing temporary power generation
and temperature control services, has completed the largest load
test project in the Middle East.
Aggreko supplied National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC)
with two load bank packages totalling 35MVA in Abu Dhabi and Iran
during the final commissioning stages of the Shell Nowrooz and Soroosh
permanent production platforms.
The package which consisted of a 25MVA load bank and transformer
was delivered to the NPCC fabrication yard in Mussafah, Abu Dhabi
and an additional 10MVA load bank and transformer was supplied to
NPCC fabrication yard Qeshm Island.
NPCC tested performance, synchronization and load sharing of the
gas turbines installed on board the Soroosh Production Platform-1
Topside (SPP1-1 Deck) and the Nowrooz Production Platform (NPP2).
The load bank package for the SPP1-1 Deck, was delivered, installed
and commissioned within two days signing the contract.
As well as providing 24 hour day availability, the Aggreko loadbank
equipment is specifically designed to be mobilised and installed
in a very short time span.
Munir Al Issa, Aggreko Sales Manager said “With the Soroosh
and Nowrooz oil fields located 90 kilometres off the coast of Iran,
thoroughly testing the load capabilities of the installed turbines
at varying conditions was extremely important. Power failure once
the platforms were mobilised to the oilfields would result in extensive
and costly delays to oil production.”
“We have completed a number of projects for Shell over the
past two years including the Shell EA FPSO (Floating Production,
Storage and Offloading) Vessel, the Soroosh Early Production Facility
– ESP-1, and power for ‘spin tests’ on electrical
submersible pumps (ESP’s) for the Soroosh and Nowrooz oilfields.
Due to our excellent performance on these contracts, Shell had no
hesitation in recommending Aggreko to NPCC for their load testing
requirements," Al Issa said.
For more information see www.aggreko.com
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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