BP Sharjah achieves world record LPG recovery
Posted: 5 October 2003
BP Sharjah has broken a world record in LPG recovery, achieving
99.75 per cent recovery of propane and essentially 100 per cent
recovery of butane and condensate at its plant in Sajaa, which it
operates on behalf of a joint venture with the government of Sharjah.
What makes the achievement more remarkable is that the original
plant design envisaged a propane recovery level of only 92.5 per
cent and the record was broken in August. LPG recovery levels are
generally lower during the summer months.
“To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest recovery
rate ever recorded for propane recovery with ethane rejection,”
said Abdul Karim Al Mazmi, president and general manager of BP Sharjah.
“Full praise for this achievement must go to plant manager
Hatem Al-Mosa and his operations team.”
The record recovery was achieved following of a warm-up operation
to remove hydrates from the system, optimising the utilization of
the LPG plant capacity, and by an innovative rearrangement of the
process flows designed by plant manager Hatem Al-Mosa, a 17-year
BP operations veteran who holds a masters degree in chemical engineering.
The average recovery over a 15-day period was maintained at 99.6
per cent. This equates to a production increase of 500 barrels per
day, or in revenue terms, about $10,000 per day.
In the recent past other BP operations in Sharjah have pioneered
other innovative technological solutions. An ice plug was used to
seal a blowout preventer stack for maintenance work, and a “bioremediation”
farm has been established to clean any soil contaminated by accidental
oil or chemical spillage. The treatment uses the natural bacteria
found in camel dung to degrade the hydrocarbon content of the soil
and return it to near pristine condition.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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