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A portable gas detector from Dräger is suitable for various applications such as personal workplace monitoring, clearance measurement of confined spaces, leak detection, area monitoring and much more.

In many industrial environments, workers need to be highly aware of exposure to toxic or combustible gases and vapours or a lack of oxygen. That’s why portable gas detectors and analysers are essential – so they can detect, measure, monitor and react to any gases in the immediate area around them. Dräger offers both single- and multi-gas mobile gas monitors that reliably detect a wide range of gases.

However, Drager do not have a mercury vapour analyser of low enough detection capability and high enough specificity for use in the offshore industry where mercury presents an invisible danger. Hence, when furnishing several FPSOs with safety equipment, Drager came to ABLE Instruments for the industry standard Jerome J405 Gold Film Mercury Vapour Analyser.

Mercury is a naturally occurring trace component of fossil fuels such as natural gas, coal, crude oil, gas condensates and tar sands and, because mercury exists naturally in vapour form, it is readily drawn up by the drilling process along with the gas product, subsequently condensing to its liquid form in various vessels throughout the separation train.

When a pressurised vessel that contains mercury droplets is depressurised, these vapours will start to be released. When breaking containment, despite a thorough gas test demonstrating there is no flammable gas present, the vessel could still present a risk from invisible mercury vapour. This is where the Jerome J405 comes into its own.

The Montrose Area Redevelopment (MAR) is a major capital project that sees the significant modification and expansion of the existing Montrose Area infrastructure, including the development of three new fields – Godwin, Cayley and Shaw. The new bridge-linked platform will be connected to the Montrose Alpha platform – one of the oldest in the North Sea – to provide additional process and plant support facilities. Gross incremental production is expected to peak at up to 40,000 boe per day.

Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Limited (Talisman Sinopec Energy UK Ltd) is the operator with a working interest of 58.97%, and Marubeni Oil & Gas (U.K.) Limited is the sole partner.

The topsides was built at Heerema Fabrication Group’s Zwijndrecht yard in the Netherlands from where it sailed out at the end of April 2016.

Repsol began talking to ABLE back in 2019 about a problematic Coriolis meter on a produced water line and COVID compromised discussions continued regarding a replacement alternative technology for the next 3 years. The Coriolis meter could not cope with the changing process conditions, reporting spurious results or simply dropping out entirely with no data.

After careful consideration and an extensive offshore trial, it was concluded that the ABLE built SlugMaster Intelligent Clamp-On Ultrasonic Flow Meter was the solution. The SlugMaster uses two ultrasonic flow metering technologies and a smart PLC to intelligently select which technology to use, based on the process conditions being measured. Constant metering is achieved regardless of solids and gas contamination. The changeover between the metering technologies is calculated with unique mathematical software, which enables exceptional measurement accuracy.

Accurate produced water/oil overboard dump reporting means that the platform satisfies the regulatory authorities and the client board.

The Rumaila oil field is located near Basra, Southern Iraq, approximately 20 miles (32 km) from the Kuwaiti border. The field is estimated to contain some 65 billion barrels of initial oil in place. Rumaila Operating Organisation – ROO is a consortium between the Iraqi state owned South Oil Company (SOC), BP and the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). The consortium is led by BP (38 per cent) with partners CNPC (37 per cent) and the Iraq government’s representative State Oil Marketing Organisation (SOMO – 25 per cent). All participants of the ROO consortium are paid a fixed fee on per barrel of incremental oil produced in the Rumaila field under a Producing Field Technical Service Contract (PFTSC) signed in 2009. The remit of ROO is to expand production from the Rumaila oil field. The ROO consortium is required to nearly triple production output from the field to some 2.5 million barrels of oil per day over the next 6 years. On completion of the project, Rumaila will become the second largest producing oil field in the world. Contributing to some 10% of the Middle East regions oil production, 7% of OPEC oil production and 3% of Global oil production.

Brodgar is a gas condensate accumulation located in Block 21/3a. This subsea development lies approximately 41 kilometres west of Britannia and produces via a subsea tie-back to the Britannia Bridge Linked Platform (BLP) Brodgar is controlled remotely from Britannia.

The water cut meter will have 2” 300lb RF flanges in Duplex and the other wetted parts will be constructed in PEEK/carbon fibre composite. It will be installed downstream from the incumbent Coriolis meter. To ensure optimum performance the water cut meter will be provided with ‘live’ density and temperature inputs via Modbus.

A competitor’s product, which had previously been considered, was found to have a meter drive frequency of 120Hz, which interferes with sensitive equipment on the engine test bed. ABLE put forward the Rheonik Coriolis, with its patented Omega tube design and consequent increased signal to noise ratio. The theoretical sizing calculations demonstrated the enhanced accuracy of the Gold Line Sensor option and the predicted pressure drop. The Rheonik has a drive frequency of 330Hz and is able to accommodate the high temperatures and pressures associated with the application.

Delivery time was critical and another factor which precluded our competitor; ABLE were able to procure a special concession from the factory and supplied the meter within a week of receiving the order.

CHIMERA will simultaneously subject components to:

• High temperatures
• High heat flux
• Static and pulsed magnetic loads
• Thermal cycling, fatigue, creep and other failure modes
• Under vacuum, air or inert gas

Therefore, enabling industry in the UK and internationally to design, and eventually qualify, components for future commercial fusion power plants.

A major contract (£14.3M) for the design and construction of CHIMERA has been agreed between UKAEA (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy’s operator) and US based global professional services firm Jacobs.

A key component of the construct is a pulsed magnet with a vertical field and this is facilitated by a water-cooled copper conductor. Accurate measurement of the flow of the cooled demineralised water through the conductor is vital. Jacobs were originally considering Vortex meters but, following discussions with ABLE Instruments, McCrometer V-Cone meters were selected due to accommodate the high temperature and pressure of the low conductivity demineralised water.

ABLE subsequently provided two complete systems including the flow meter, flow computer, differential pressure transmitter, temperature transmitter and a line pressure transmitter to be installed upstream of the V-cone. The three transmitter values will feed directly into the flow computer to provide a mass flow measurement.

The meters were required to operate under two different sets of process conditions:

• Mode 1 – 155 bar / 333°C / 650 litres/min
• Mode 2 – 50 bar / 190°C / 1000 litres/min

Fusion is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner energy the world badly needs. CCFE scientists and engineers are developing the technology to bring fusion electricity to the grid. Bringing the power source of the stars down to Earth could give us low-carbon electricity for millennia to come.

The Thames Tideway Tunnel will protect the river for at least the next 100 years. It will be a 7.2m diameter, 25km-long tunnel, up to 65m below ground. It will run from Acton to the Abbey Mills Pumping Station in Stratford, mostly under the river. Preparatory work on the project began in 2015 and construction is now underway at each of TW’s 24 sites in London. The project is anticipated to be completed in 2025.

The tunnel will cost £4.2bn to complete. The cost of the project is being paid for by Thames Water’s 15 million wastewater customers through their bills, which will rise by approximately £25 per year.

In addition to their major construction role in the project, Tideway are being asked to provide low level hydrogen sulphide (H2S) analysis at 13 key locations across the capital as part of their nuisance odour monitoring remit. Having had previous positive experience of the industry standard Jerome J605 Gold Film H2S Analyser, Tideway approached ABLE for four of the instruments housed in bespoke, weatherproof enclosure systems with custom built mounting frames. The enclosures will also contain telemetry and metrological equipment.

Our Engineers will also be completing commissioning works, regular site maintenance visits throughout the projected 2-year operation period and decommission services as construction works draw to a close.

The enclosure design is intended to minimise time required at site to install and commission. A “Plug & Play” approach with industrial connectors will eliminate the need for a site team to be present to terminate power to the enclosure. ABLE will work with the Tideway team to further refine this specification if needed, to meet the needs of the project.

Essar Oil (UK) Limited completed the acquisition of the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex from Shell in August 2011 and employs over 900 people, processing 9 million tonnes of crude per year. The site produces a range of oil products including about one sixth of Britain’s transport fuels annually – about 4.4 billion litres of diesel, 3 billion litres of petrol and 2 billion litres of jet fuel.

As part of Essar’s ambition for Stanlow to become the UK’s first low carbon refinery, they are continually reviewing their procedures to improve efficiency and upgrading the associated process control instrumentation to optimise output.

Essar have long favoured the revered Magnetrol range of guided wave radar (GWR) transmitters for various critical level applications across the refinery, including storage, dewatering, desalting, distillation, blending. Having previously deployed the Eclipse Model 706 GWR throughout the refinery, Essar has now embarked upon a program of upgrading to the current generation Eclipse 706. The 706 provides improved signal strength with best-in-class Signal-to-Noise Ratio and advanced diagnostics; the 706 supports both the FDT/DTM and Enhanced DD (EDDL) standards, which allow viewing of valuable configuration and diagnostic information such as the echo curve in tools such as PACTware ™, AMS Device Manager, and various HART® Field Communicators.