Installations Around the World
Select an area on the map above for further project information.
United Kingdom
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Flare gas Recovery | Optimised system to boost flare gas from 3 to 5.5barg |
| 2014 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Production Boosting | Carbon Steel body with Inconel weld overlay and Super Duplex silencers. Boosting 36mmscfd |
| 2013 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Flare gas Recovery | FPF1: LP flare gas recovery using SJP technology |
| 2013 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Separator Pressure Reduction | Lowered separator pressure using HP gas from compressor re-cycle gas to increase production. LP gas pressure was boosted by 5 bar and delivered gas back to LP compressor suction line. |
| 2012 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Avoided LP well back out in presence of HP wells. The production from LP well was boosted by 8 bar. |
| 2011 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Flare Gas Recovery | Recovered LP flash gas at 10.5 barg, discharged at 25.5 barg. |
| 2011 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Back-out Prevention | Allowed LP wells to produce at sustainable rates in presence of new HP well. |
| 2011 | Onshore | Wellcom® System | Pressure Boosting | Using gas from HP well as motive source, the backed out LP wells started to produce. A pressure boost of 7 bar was achieved. |
| 2010 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Separator Pressure Reduction | Lowered LP separator pressure using HP gas from compressor recycle gas to increase production. LP gas was boosted by 7.5 bar and delivered back to LP compressor suction line. |
| 2010 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Boost of up to 7.5bar using HP well as motive source. Caltec standard 10" rental unit |
| 2009 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Compressor Replacement | 1st stage compressor was replaced by a SJP using re-cycled gas from HP compressor to draw in LP gas flow from offshore platforms. A pressure boost of 110% was achieved, plus saving on the fuel gas and compressor maintenance costs. |
| 2008 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Back-out Prevention | HP wells were backing out incoming LP gas wells. Back-out of LP stream was minimised allowing the LP streams to produce with 25% pressure boost. |
| 2008 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Using HP well as the motive source for a SJP, the pressure of LP well was boosted by 100%. |
| 2007 | Offshore | New SJP Internals | Separator Pressure Reduction | Lowered LP separator pressure, using HP gas from the compressor re-cycle gas to increase production. |
| 2007 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Back-out Prevention | SJP allowed increased production and boosted the LP pressure by 15 bar. |
| 2006 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Slurry Transport | Slurry discharge with HP water as motive. Hardended Carbon Steel |
| 2006 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Boosted pressure of LP gas by 8 bar, with boosted gas used as fuel gas for compressors. |
| 2006 | Offshore | New SJP Internals | Pressure Boosting | New HP nozzle to boost pressure by 7 bar of back out LP wells. |
| 2006 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Gas SJP for maximizing production allowed the LP wells to continue production, utilising HP gas from the compressor as motive flow. |
| 2005 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Production Boosting | Three gas SJPs (10", 12" & 14") to operate using HP gas from the existing compression system for pressure/production boosting and lowering the backpressure on LP wells from different satellites. 20% production boost was achieved with backpressure reduction of 8 bar. Rewheeling of compressors was avoided. |
| 2005 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Production Boosting | Gas SJP used HP well for pressure and production boosting from three rapidly declining LP wells. Production gain was 110% and deliquification was also achieved. |
| 2005 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Two gas SJPs to kick start wells and to increase production from the LP wells. Pressure boost of 50% was achieved. |
| 2004 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Slurry Transport | Wellhead desanding cyclone used HP water to remove separated sand as a slurry. Hardened Carbon Steel |
| 2004 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Slurry Transport | Slurry discharge with HP water as motive. Hardended Carbon Steel |
| 2003 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Slurry Transport | Wellhead desanding cyclone used HP water to remove separated sand as a slurry. Hardened Carbon Steel |
| 2001 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Gas SJP used to increase LP gas pressure by 9 bar. |
| 2001 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | SJP boosted the pressure of gas received from nearby Shell wells by a factor of 44%, thus increasing oil and gas production and debottlenecked the existing compression train. Eliminated the need for a new 1st stage compressor and re-wheeling of the existing one. |
| 2000 | Offshore | Compact Separation | Under-balanced Drilling | I-SEP/HI-SEP compact separator used on offshore Platform for underbalanced drilling operation, with the operating pressure of up to 2000 psig - Design pressure 5,000 psig. System handled gas, liquids and drill cutting solids. Well was drilled in shorter time, with downstream chokes undamaged. |
| 2000 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Gas SJP used to increase LP gas pressure by 15 bar. |
| 1999 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Flare Gas Recovery | Gas SJP boosted the pressure of 15mmscfd of gas from Alba field by 115%, preventing flaring. |
| 1997 | Onshore | I-SEP | Gas-sand Separation | I-SEP for removal of sand from gas stream. |
| 1987 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Production Boosting | Two applications - achieved increases in gas production of 25% and 41%. Systems in use for 10 years without maintentance. SPE Paper 26684. |
Norway
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Offshore | Wx | Oil-water Separation | Wx technology based on I-SEP inline compact separation technology for lab and field trials to remove gas and bulk of water from oil. |
| 2007 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Separator Pressure Reduction | LP gas pressure was boosted by 83%, the operating pressure of the 2nd stage production separator was lowered. |
Denmark
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Offshore | Compact Separation | Metering | I-SEP/HI-SEP and metering system rated to ANSI 1500# for new satellite platform in the North Sea. |
Netherlands
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Offshore | New SJP Internals | Production Boosting | New nozzle and diffuser for existing SJP for new flow conditions. |
| 2013 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Using HP gas from compressor, boosted LP gas pressure by 160%, thus increasing gas production. |
| 2012 | Offshore | New SJP Internals | Production Boosting | New nozzle and diffuser for existing SJP, to cater for changing process conditions. |
| 2012 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Production Boosting | Powered by HP well; lowered LP wells pressure by 9 bar, thus increasing production and deliquifying the well. |
| 2011 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | One of Caltec’s standard rental units was moved from the HP well (which had declined pressure) to the compression station, using recycle gas (wasted and available energy). The unit was optimised for these new conditions and further lowered the operating pressure of all the LP gas leading to production gains and extended field life of the wells. |
| 2010 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Production Boosting | Compression gas on recycle – Caltec SJP installed to use this wasted energy to lower the back pressure of LP wells whilst still delivering the gas at the required delivery pressure; lead to significant production benefits, lower CAPEX and accelerated deployment. |
| 2009 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Back-out Prevention | HP gas well was backing out LP wells flowing into the same line. With SJP, the dead LP well produced 140,000 Nm³/d, using energy from HP well. The total production was fed directly to HP compression suction line, thus allowing LP compressor to be switched off, thus saving additional fuel gas. |
| 2008 | Offshore | New SJP Internals | Production Boosting | New internals for Gas SJP to allow increased production from the declining LP wells. Pressure was boosted by 10 bar under the new conditions. |
| 2007 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Production Boosting | Gas SJP for boosting production on the Ameland platform, utilising available HP compressor gas. This solution removed the need for 1st stage compressor. |
| 2006 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Production Boosting | Gas SJP was used to allow increased production from the declining LP wells, using new HP wells wasted energy as the motive flow. Up to 18 bar backpressure reduction on the LP well was achieved. |
| 2004 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Gas SJP used gas from a rapidly declining HP gas well to draw additional gas from a LP part of the reservoir and boosting the LP pressure by 100% With this configuration, the existing compression system was also de-bottlenecked. |
| 1998 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Gas SJP used to boost LP gas pressure by 40%. |
| 1996 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Gas SJP to boost LP gas pressure by 35%, using gas from a HP well. 316SS with NiSiC coating on nozzle and mixing tube. |
Mexico
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Vent Gas Recovery | Recovered 0.5mmscfd vent gas from storage tank, returned to process at 5barg. |
| 2013 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Vent Gas Recovery | Storage tank vent gas recovered & returned to process. |
Malaysia
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Offshore | New SJP Internals | Production Boosting | New nozzle and diffuser for existing SJP, to cater for changing process conditions. |
| 2012 | Offshore | Wellcom® System | Production Boosting | Used to boost production from LP multiphase wells, with booster pump for liquid phase separated by I-SEP. |
| 2012 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Back-out Prevention | Two SJPs (6" and 12") and a liquid pump for well revival and minimising LP wells production back out when a new HP well was brought on-line. 2500# HP connection with 900# discharge. |
| 2011 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Production Boosting | Used to boost pressure and production from LP manifold and bring 16 closed LP wells back into production. HP gas came from injection compressor used as motive flow. A pressure boost of up to 13 bar was achieved. |
| 2009 | Offshore | Wellcom® System | Well Revival | Using Wellcom® Oil system by which flow from multiphase HP well was used to bring in closed LP multiphase well. Lowered the flowing BHP of the LP well by 140 psi, thus maintaining & boosting production. |
| 2003 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Slurry Transport | Wellhead desanding cyclone used HP water to remove separated sand as a slurry. Hardened Carbon Steel. |
| 2003 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Slurry Transport | Wellhead desanding cyclone used HP water to remove separated sand as a slurry. Hardened Carbon Steel. |
| 2002 | Offshore | Wellcom® System | Pressure Boosting | Two systems on offshore platforms. Boosted production from existing oil wells by 35%, utilising Wellcom® systems with liquid pumps. Available HP lift gas was used as the motive flow. Pressure boost of up to 8 bar achieved. |
| 1997 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Separator Pressure Reduction | Used available booster pump to provide HP oil as the motive flow for the SJP to lower the separator pressure and to help to reduce back pressure on LP wells. |
Indonesia
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Offshore | New SJP Internals | Pressure Boosting | Wellcom® gas system for LP well pressure and production boosting. |
| 2012 | Offshore | Welcom® System | Production Boosting | Used to boost production from liquid loaded LP gas wells, using HP gas from Multiphase well. A pressure boost of 9 bar achieved, allowing LP wells to produce. |
| 2003 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Compressor Debottlenecking | Two gas SJPs for pressure boosting of 150% with drawing-in some of the LP gas and feeding it to the second stage compressor, thus debottlenecking 1st stage compressor. |
| 1998 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Separator Pressure Reduction | Used available booster pump to provide HP oil as the motive flow for the SJP to lower the separator pressure and to help to reduce back pressure on LP wells. |
Egypt
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Offshore | New SJP Internals | Back-out Prevention | Boosted production from LP wells. New internals for existing SJP. |
| 2013 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Boosted LP pressure using an HP well as motive source, as well as unloading 1000bbld/day liquids in the LP well. |
Saudi Arabia
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Production Boosting | Ten SJP skidded units: production boosting from multiple wells, aka Velocity Spool technology. |
Trinidad & Tobago
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Production Boosting | To boost LP wells from 895 psig to a discharge of 1010 psig using flow from HP wells. |
Oman
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Flare Gas Recovery | Two SJPs: using recycled gas from compression system – utilised wasted energy to remove the need for a 1st stage flash gas compressor. |
| 2009 | Onshore | Compact Separation | Metering | Compact separator to undertake gas-liquid separation for well test packages. |
Nigeria
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Onshore | Multiple | Complete Process | Complete processing and production boosting facility, using Caltec Inline separation and production boosting technology. |
| 2007 | Onshore | SJP (Liquid Gas) | Flare Gas Recovery | Liquid/gas SJPs for flare gas recovery applications using HP injection water as the motive source. |
| 2006 | Onshore | SJP (Liquid Gas) | Flare Gas Recovery | Skidded liquid/gas SJPs for flare gas recovery applications, using existing spare oil pump as the motive source. |
Gabon
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Onshore | I-SEP | Gas-liquid Separation | Compact inline separator to de-bottleneck the existing process train - Production is mature and the operating pressure has decreased considerably, which has resulted in the gas expanding and the existing trains not being able to handle all the production. Due to removal of this debottlenecking effect, an extra 1000 bbl/d of oil was recovered and also increased site flow rate capacity. |
United Arab Emirates
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Production Boosting | Two SJPs, using HP gas to reduce backpressure on the LP well. |
Iran
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Flare Gas Recovery | Allowed recovery of very low pressure gas and eliminated the need for a 1st stage compressor. SJP also saved on fuel gas and compressor maintenance requirements. |
Australia
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Slurry Transport | Slurry discharge with HP water as motive. Hardended Carbon Steel. |
United States
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Well Deliquification | Fast track production boosting gas SJP to maximise production, manufactured and supplied in six weeks. Backpressure reduction of 340psi was achieved on three subsea wells 27 miles away. A total of around 3bcf of gas, otherwise likely to be stranded and lost, was recovered. This approach also removed liquid built up in wells and also accumulated in the pipeline. |
| 2004 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Gas SJP for LP gas pressure boosting by 105% and debottlenecking the existing compression system, motive provided by compressor recycle gas. |
| 2003 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Production Boosting | Four gas SJPs for pressure/production boosting & deliquification of the LP string on a Dual String Wellhead; production gain was over 300%. |
Canada
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | LP pressure was boosted by 50% with gas SJP to meet the required pipeline pressure. |
| 2005 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Gas SJP for pressure boost of 45%. |
| 2003 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | FGas SJP increased LP well production by 25%. |
| 2003 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Gas SJP which increased LP well production by 35%. |
| 2001 | Offshore | Compact Separation | Under-balanced Drilling | I-SEP/HI-SEP compact separator for underbalanced drilling operation with ceramic lined internals and design pressure of 5000psig. Handled gas, liquids and drill cutting solids. |
Kazakhstan
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Vent Gas Recovery | Compressor seal/vent gas recovery system, enabling LP gas to be recovered using available HP motive gas. Five-fold pressure boosting achieved. |
| 2003 | Onshore | I-SEP | Gas-liquid Separation | I-SEP separator for removal of free/dissolved gas from oil, mud and H2S from water. |
Thailand
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Offshore | Surface Jet Pump | Production Boosting | SJP for boosting Oil Production via production separator. A pressure boost of 44% was achieved and the system also revived a dead well by lowering the imposed back pressure on the wellhead. |
France
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Onshore | I-SEP | Metering | Gas-liquid I-SEP separator for well testing. |
Brazil
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Onshore | I-SEP | Gas-liquid Separation | Compact system for use in well testing and pre conditioning for multiphase metering. |
Italy
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Onshore | Wellcom® System | Pressure Boosting | Two WELLCOM systems generated a pressure boost of up to 11 bar and 350bbl/d of additional oil while handling full multiphase flow from HP and LP wells. |
| 1996 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Oil production increased by 30% with a boost in pressure of 3 bar. |
| 1995 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Well Revival | Well de-liquification with SJP. Increased LP gas pressure up to 55% and associated production using a near-by HP gas well as the motive source. |
| 1995 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | Have used seven SJPs in onshore and offshore applications in gas production. In all cases payback was achieved in only a few weeks. |
South Africa
| Date | Location | Equipment | Application | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Onshore | Surface Jet Pump | Pressure Boosting | SJP used HP gas to boost the pressure of LP gas by 25%. |