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Total Energies E & P UK
The Shetland Gas Plant System (SGP) is located at Sullom Voe, on the Shetland Islands, and is part of the Laggan-Tormore project that was developed by Total E&P UK and Dong E&P (UK). The Laggan gas field was discovered in 1986. The Tormore condensate field was discovered in 2007. The development plan for the site was approved in March 2010.
The SGP facility includes reception, processing, and gas compression systems. Gas is exported through a 30-inch pipeline, which connects to the FUKA system near the decommissioned MCP01 platform. The facility processes and exports hydrocarbons received from the Laggan and Tormore subsea fields, located west of Shetland, via two 18-inch multiphase import lines. These offshore gas fields are approximately 125 km northwest of the Shetland Islands on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) and lie in a water depth of around 600 meters.
Through a number of industry forums, Total Energies heard about the ABLE FT Flare Metering enhancement system and its ability to provide compositional analysis of the stream and the associated lower uncertainties of the density measurement and, consequentially, the flare measurement. Therefore, when some of ABLE’s competitors’ meters on the plant came under scrutiny due to poor performance, Total engaged ABLE to supply their revolutionary new FlareMaster FT Meters. The overriding justification for swapping out the meters was to use FlareMaster’s ability to determine the concentration of methane, which has been decreed by new EU regulations (May 2024) to be, in some cases, 28 times worse for the environment than carbon dioxide. Thanks to the ABLE FlareMaster the SGP terminal will soon have a system that meets the new EU law on measuring and reporting methane emissions.