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In 1997, Venture partners set out with the former State Oil & Gas Authority to develop the vast reserves of Karachaganak. They signed a Final Production Sharing Agreement (FPSA) which will see the partnership operate Karachaganak until 2038. Since signing this agreement they have invested over $22 billion in the operations and have applied industry leading hydrocarbon technology to one of the world’s most complex reservoirs.

In 2016 KPO produced 139.7 million barrels of oil equivalent of stabilised and unstabilised liquid hydrocarbons, gas and fuel gas. In addition, 8.04 billion cubic meters of sour dry gas were re-injected, a volume equivalent to approximately 46% of the total volume of produced gas.

While delivering on its operation commitments, KPO as a responsible corporate citizen works towards generating maximum social and economic benefits from the Karachaganak field for the local communities and the Republic of Kazakhstan as a whole.

While civil aerospace is the main focus for Rolls Royce in Derby, the city plays host to the full breadth of the company. This includes 2,400 people in Raynesway. Its core gas turbine technology has created one of the broadest product ranges of aero engines in the world, with 54,000 engines in service with 500 airlines, 2,400 corporate and utility operators and more than 100 armed forces, powering both fixed and rotary wing aircraft.

In 2017, the future of the civil aerospace division was secured for the next 30 years when the company decided that a new £90M test bed would be constructed on the Derby site instead of overseas. Dew point is a critical measurement in the monitoring of aero engine efficiency and when looking to equip the new facility, Rolls Royce turned to ABLE Instruments & Controls. ABLE has a long history of optical hygrometer supply and provision of expertise in good measurement practice to the Derby and Hucknall sites.

PetroChad have contracted ABLE to supply a number of Turbine Flow Meters for U & M-Pad Water Injection and Disposal applications on the power station upgrade. ABLE are also quoting for additional supporting instrument packages comprising pressure and temperature transmitters, pressure regulators, Coriolis mass flow meters and pig detectors.

Moundoe itself lies on the Mbéré River (a tributary of the Western Logone) some 475 kilometres south of the capital N’Djamena. It is the main city of the Ngambai people. Moundou has grown as an industrial centre, home to the Gala Brewery, which produces Chad’s most popular beer and the cotton and oil industries.

The SlugMaster is true to the philosophy underpinning the ABLE’s innovative Master Series of metering products – the resolution of demanding application challenges in order to consistently deliver accurate flow measurements during process upsets and fluctuations in composition that would defeat conventional meters.

Dana’s Triton FPSO is located in block 21/30 approximately 120 miles east of Aberdeen, and produces oil and gas from the Bittern, Clapham, Pict, Saxon, Guillemot West and North West fields.

Triton is Dana’s first major operated asset in the UK, it consolidates the company’s strong position in the Central North Sea and is a core part of their strategy to acquire more operated positions where there is a strong commercial and operational rationale to do so.

Having successfully furnished several of Apache’s other UK North Sea assets (inc. Beryl Bravo & Forties Charlie & Delta) with the innovative, in-house developed v-Trakka Universal Valve Position Indicator, ABLE have now been commissioned to retrofit this innovative device to the Xmas tree valves on the Beryl Alpha Platform.

The v-Trakkas will be replacing pressure transmitters installed on the valve hydraulic lines, the accuracy and reliability of which has been compromised by regular blockages necessitating intensive maintenance. Conversely, once fitted, the v-Trakka requires minimal attention.
The v-Trakka is a compact, lightweight mechanical instrument suitable for installation in the harsh well environment. The 316 st/ st cover and rigid base provides significant protection from dirt and everyday impacts. The cover also provides added safety by preventing personnel from standing in front of the valve stem. The high-viz position marker can be viewed through the toughened-glass window slots.
Apache continue to standardise on the v-Trakka across their various assets with several hundred now installed across the Beryl and Forties fields.

Many operators no longer use limit switches for control of Xmas tree valves as they are considered unreliable and unsuitable; limit switch technology only provides valve status as fully open or fully closed with no continuous feedback.
To compensate for this, an alternative method has been to infer the position of the valve by trending the pressure in the hydraulic lines. However, accuracy of the pressure measurement versus valve position is poor, as is reliability, due to transmitter blockages that require maintenance.

The consequences of incorrect valve position control can include process failures, shutdown and most importantly impact on a safe working environment. Such loss of production can incur massive costs.

For a continuous direct valve position measurement, ABLE have developed a universal valve position transmitter (v-Trakka) which can be retrofitted to most leading types of surface Xmas tree valves to provide an accurate and repeatable 4-20mA output correlating to the actual physical valve position.

Once installed, the v-Trakka requires no maintenance. The v-Trakka is a compact, lightweight mechanical instrument suitable for installation in the harsh well environment. The 316 st/ st cover and rigid base provides significant protection from dirt and everyday impacts. The cover also provides added safety by preventing personnel from standing in front of the valve stem. The high-viz position marker can be viewed through the toughened-glass window slots.

In order to facilitate installation across the myriad of Xmas tree valve designs v-Trakka is available in two variants. Model VT1 for continuous direct valve position measurement on valves that have a central stem and Model VT2 for applications involving top side trees that use the indicator window design.

ABLE Instruments presents the ABLE v-Trakka Christmas Tree Valve Position Transmitter. Secured directly to the valve collar and strong enough to withstand a scaffold pole knock, the v-Trakka also has a 316 stainless steel quick fit cover with viewing windows.

It is very easy to fit and simple to set up and provides protection from muck, physical damage and worker injury (by being in front of valve-stem).

Features:

• 360° sensor allows for any stem rotation
• 2-Wire EEx d Loop-powered Transmitter
• Continuous Direct Measurement of Tree Valve-position
• Universal Design; Retrofit to most common surface-trees, including:
  • Cameron
  • Baker-Hughes
  • Vetco
  • Safoco
  • Wood Group
  • Presco-Dyne
• Extremely stable and robust design eliminates dependence on problematic limit switches and inferred pressure measurements.

WorleyParsons UK, who are providing EPC services for the topsides module, including module fabrication, brownfield scopes, module landing preparation and the associated tie-ins, approached ABLE Instruments for a V-Cone Flow Meter for deployment on the Slugcatcher Gas Outlet Flow. In view of the high levels of corrosive and toxic agents in the process (H2S, CO2, Hg) the meter is to be manufactured in Super Duplex.

ABLE have a strong supply legacy with the Buzzard assets, having equipped the original platform with the nucleonics and allocation metering packages.

The first steel for the construction of the ship was cut in July 2016. The keel laying ceremony for the ship, yard number 1390, took place on 17 October 2016.

Cammell Laird, the shipbuilding contractor responsible for the vessel’s construction, commissioned ABLE Instruments & Controls Ltd for the supply of a diverse instrument package to equip the Sir David Attenborough with a range of pressure and temperature switches and transmitters for critical pump & compressor protection duties, instrument air and cold room monitoring. ABLE are also supplying a variety of level controls for waste water tanks, drain tanks, expansion tanks and settling tanks, and some high end moisture in oil detectors for measuring water in fuel and lube oils.

The ship will be constructed by combining individually fabricated blocks, much like the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers. The majority of the blocks will be manufactured by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead, but due to a tight schedule, the stern of the ship (named ‘Block 10’) was fabricated at the A&P Group on the River Tyne. The section was transported to Merseyside on a barge in August 2017. The stern section was loaded onto the barge by heavy lifting company ALE, using self-propelled modular trailers (SPMT). The same procedure in reverse was then used to get the hull segment on to the slipway at Birkenhead. The hull of Sir David Attenborough was named by her namesake and launched on 14 July 2018. She was moved into a wet dock for the addition of her superstructure and fitting out. The ship is scheduled to be completed by October 2018.

RF Admittance is a tried and tested solution to the fly ash level measurement application and has been an industry standard for coal fired power stations. Remote electronics negate potential problems associated with this harsh environment and Drexelbrook’s proven Cote-Shield technology ignores coating build-up on the probe.