Awarded Orders

National Grid Grain LNG’s aim is to be the foremost LNG importation terminal in the world and is set to realise this ambition via the expansion project, preparation for which is ongoing and it is on track to be launched in July 2025, when site storage will increase to 1.2 million m3. Ultimately, the terminal’s total regasification capacity will be increased to 23 mtpa. Furthermore, Grain LNG is commissioning a second cryogenic unloading line, which will make it the only terminal in Europe that can perform simultaneous unloads. Furthermore, Grain LNG is commissioning a second cryogenic unloading line, which will make it the only terminal in Europe that can perform simultaneous downloads.

As part of the improvement program Grain LNG are looking to enhance the accuracy, reliability and repeatability of the integral flow meters. Critical to the terminal is the performance of the vapourisers. The Submerged Combustion Vapouriser (SCV) uses send out gas (the process of sending gas at high pressure to an onshore pipeline after it has been regasified) as the fuel for the combustion that provides vaporizing heat. In order to augment the metering of the SCV inlet flow control valve and the SCV feed from EX tank pumps, Grain contracted ABLE Instruments for the supply of its best-in-class McCrometer V-Cone Differential Pressure Flow Meters.

Consequently, ABLE are supplying one-off 3” meter and two-off 8” meters in stainless steel with 3″ RF WN ANSI CL 900 Flanges & 8″ RF WN ANSI CL 900 Flanges correspondingly.

This most recent success for ABLE comes from having the right tool for the job and the positive legacy of ABLE’s previous supply to Grain LNG projects.

To this end, SWW looked to replace the faulty mag flow meters originally supplied by one of our competitors and approached ABLE with regard to supplying McCrometer’s innovative FPI (Full Profile Insertion) Mag Meter for all three locations. ABLE also supplied new valves for the installations.

Ease and low cost of installation together with equivalent specification to a conventional full bore mag meter, were key factors in moving SWW over to the FPI. Two of the meters supplied are bidirectional to facilitate the differing levels of rainfall and water demand between Summer & Winter.

SWW have several other sites in mind for the FPI, but these will require the imminent IP68 rated version of the transmitter. Watch this space.

In order to meet this goal Anglian must meet the EU’s Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) which takes an integrated approach to controlling pollution to air, water and land, and sets challenging industry standards for the most polluting industries. The IED aims to prevent and reduce harmful industrial emissions, while promoting the use of techniques that reduce pollutant emissions and that are energy and resource efficient. To that end, Anglian have purchased ten-off of the revered Jerome J605 Gold Film PPB Hydrogen Sulphide Analyser.
All of Anglian’s 10 STCs will be equipped with a Jerome which will facilitate fast and accurate determination of nuisance odours and expeditious negation of same.

ABLE expects other water utilities throughout the UK to follow suit.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/industrial-emissions-standards-and-best-available-techniques

One of Pfizer’s strategic partners for the expansion is BCD, a leading process engineering solutions company based in Cork, which has been delivering high-purity process solutions to pharmaceutical, biotech, food and beverage, and chemical customers all over the world, since 1983.

With specific expertise in Product Formulation, Clean in Place, Clean Utilities and Thermal Treatment, BDC’s engineers are at the forefront of the development of innovative process, mechanical and automation solutions.

The process solutions for Pfizer are being constructed as Modular Skids and have a high demand for Guided Wave Radar Transmitters for level measurement duties.

As Magnetrol’s partner for sales & service in the UK and Ireland, ABLE has recently received orders for a significant number of the Model Eclipse 705 Guided Wave Radar Transmitter. The variant selected is the enhanced variant with a 304 stainless steel housing and AL-6XN stainless steel probe, specifically designed for hygienic applications. Furthermore, the instrument meets the needs and requirements for the wetted and non-wetted materials, process connections and surface finishes of hygienic industries.

In order to carry out moisture testing of the resin and filament printing materials, Laser Lines required a moisture specific analyser with good correlation to Karl Fischer titration. Laser Lines contacted ABLE in this regard and were introduced to the Computrac Vapor Pro XL. With excellent repeatability, precision, flexibility and an advanced user interface but without the need for toxic chemicals, the Vapor Pro provides the latest in moisture specific analysis technology.

After consultation and demonstration, Laser Lines selected the new Autosampler variant of the Vapor Pro which facilitates automated moisture analysis with the ability to test up to 16 samples with individual test profiles. However, it was the associated safety aspect of the Autosampler that appealed to Laser Lines; the construction of the Autosampler means that operators are unable to handle the ejected heated vials until they have cooled down to room temperature.

SGI re-injects one third of produced sour gas back into the Tengiz reservoir at extremely high pressures to maintain reservoir pressure. The injection compressor is like no other compressor in the world and represents the state of the art in sour gas injection technology. SGI enables about 25% of total TCO oil production as well as pressure maintenance to reservoir.

ABLE supplied myriad instrumentation to the original SGP Project back in 2006/7, including 35 Ultrasonic Clamp-on Flow Meters for both liquid and gas applications. This expansion doubled the production of existing processing facilities. ABLE scope also included Russian technical documentation including Metrology & GOST approvals.

Having provided sterling service for 16 years, certain meters on the sour gas service needed replacing. ABLE were contracted in this regard and supplied several dual channel meters built into cradles, ready to drop into the existing hazardous area enclosures.

When TCO’s Future Growth Project (FGP) was approved in 2018, ABLE were commissioned to supply over £14M worth of instrumentation, the legacy of our recognition as a proven supply & service partner to SGP.

FGP represented major plant expansion. The project uses sour gas injection technology, successfully developed and proven during TCO’s previous expansion in 2008, to increase Tengiz crude oil production capacity by about 12 million tonnes per year/260,000 barrels per day to about 39 million tonnes per year/850,000 barrels per day –  equivalent to current total North Sea output.

The Scott, Telford and Rochelle fields are tied into the platform. The Scott and Telford fields continue to produce through Scott. The Rochelle field reached COP in 2019. The CNOOC International strategy for Scott is to maximise recovery from the Scott and Telford fields in a safe and environmentally responsible manner, defer abandonment costs and attract third party or equity tieback developments.

The new rigid Telford water injection pipeline will be trenched by ploughing with the top of the pipeline approx. 0.6m below the seabed.

As part of the pipeline upgrade, CNOOC expressed a requirement for accurate and precise  injection of scale inhibitor into the line. ABLE were contracted to supply a dosing skid with three stainless steel Rheonik RHM015 Coriolis Mass Flow Meters each with ½” process connections. The meters were designed for 221barg at 10 litres/hr with a minimal pressure drop of 0.1 bar. Accuracy was verified at 0.2% of rate.

Morgan’s products and systems are used in high temperature industrial processing of metals, petrochemicals, cement, ceramics and glass, and by manufacturers of equipment for aerospace, automotive, marine and domestic applications. Their core strength is the ability to address individual customer challenges, using proven materials and applications expertise to design, manufacture and install optimum thermal solutions.

When Morgan undertook the test furnace upgrade/rebuild at the Bromborough Site, they decided to install a superior quality, high temperature surveillance camera to monitor the process. As suppliers of Canty’s process vision technology, ABLE were approached to resolve the application. ABLE recommended Canty’s ExtremeTemp Furnace Camera, rated for temperatures up to 1930°C.

The camera was duly purchased and will be located horizontally (or angled downwards slightly to minimise the accumulation of any airborne debris)  at the right-hand rear corner of the furnace chamber providing a 65° viewing angle. Normal operating temperature is around 1000-1100 °C and a typical furnace run is around 2 hours. The camera will have a dual instrument air feed: one to cool the electronics and one to maintain a positive pressure in the lens tube to ensure no furnace debris can adhere to and block the lens tip.

There also exists a potential interest in looking at glass fibre width measurement on the manufacturing side. Canty already provide this measurement for one of Morgan’s major competitors in Europe and budgetary costs have been advised. Watch this space!