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BP Chooses Bently Nevada for North Sea Magnus EOR Project | |
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For more information: Steve Sabin Corporate Marketing Manager Bently Nevada Corporation 1631 Bently Parkway South Minden, NV 89423 Phone: (775) 782-3611 Fax: (775) 782-9337 E-mail: steve.sabin@bently.com |
MINDEN, NEVADA, 5 December 2000 - BP has chosen Bently Nevada Corporation to provide a knowledge-based machine condition and performance management system for use in an enhanced oil recovery project in the U.K. North Sea. Wood Group Engineering was recently awarded the contract for project management, design, procurement, and construction for the Magnus Platform element of the Magnus Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) project. The venture will increase the Magnus field's recoverable reserves by some 50 million barrels of oil and extend its life by several years to beyond 2015. The job involves importing gas and gas liquids from the Foinaven and Schiehallion fields for injection into the Magnus reservoir and includes the addition of a new Miscible Injection Gas Compression facility. In order to meet the space, weight, and economic restraints associated with a mature asset, a single, high power density, gas compression system with a large pressure ratio is required. Sulzer Turbo Ltd. of Zurich was chosen to design and manufacture a high speed turbo compressor capable of meeting the challenging conditions the system will experience due to significant variations in gas properties such as mol weight, temperature, and pressure. The availability and reliability of this sophisticated machine is crucial to the successful operation of the Magnus asset and a reliable, online machine management and protection package was identified as an important tool to assist the operations and maintenance teams in characterizing and understanding the rotor dynamic behavior and performance of the machine. To fulfill this requirement, the project team selected Bently Nevada to provide a knowledge-based machine condition and performance management system which will be integrated with the compressor control system to continuously monitor and assess the operation of the compression system. The system design incorporates a range of Bently Nevada machinery management products combined to provide Actionable Information™ to the operator, helping to avoid unnecessary trips and unplanned shutdowns. Machine Condition Manager™ 2000 is an automated diagnostic and analysis system; it uses knowledge bases and rule sets to provide early warning of potential machine malfunctions and alerts the operator of changes in machine operating condition. Bently PERFORMANCE™ continuously monitors the thermodynamic efficiency and performance of the compressor and driver, providing current and historical information describing the actual and expected performance of the compression system. Bently Nevada Engineering Services will install and commission the system for use at the Factory Acceptance Test where baseline and reference data will be collected to provide a complete footprint of machine dynamics prior to installation offshore. The Magnus EOR project is the first BP offshore asset to implement this innovative approach to improving machine availability and reliability, setting the standard for smart gas compression instrumentation. Bently Nevada is the world's leading supplier of machinery protection and management solutions, and maintains over 80 sales and service offices in the principal industrial centers of 40 countries around the globe. It provides a comprehensive scope of products encompassing instrumentation, software, advanced bearing designs, engineering services, and fundamental rotor dynamic research - all with a common objective: helping customers protect and manage all their machinery. Machine Condition Manager 2000, Actionable Information, and Bently PERFORMANCE are trademarks of Bently Nevada Corporation. |
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