BP Inde Platform 49/23AT

Customer

Product

To design and supply a gas boosting system for offshore gas production, to reduce backpressure for satellite platforms thereby increasing production, which would also de-bottleneck BP's main compression station, allowing it to run at a higher suction pressure. (Running at 30 psi higher suction pressure could increase capacity of 23A's compression station by 160 mmscfd, allowing new fields to be brought online.)

Approach

Caltec designed and supplied the world's biggest jet pump yet nearly seven metres long and with 24-inch inlet and outlet lines. Caltec employed a novel design process to provide a selfadjusting nozzle system to optimise motive gas usage for varying flow conditions and maximise the volume of export gas.

Comments

Ian Andrews
Senior Production Engineer (SNS), BP Amoco, states:

"BP and its Co-Venturers are extremely pleased with the jet pump, which has achieved all its stated aims and continues to perform above expectations, thus further helping us to maintain and increase production from the North Sea wherever possible."

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