Hundreds of Subsea Projects with Thousands of Pumps Moving Forward Despite
Shrinking Oil Prices
The recent plunge in oil prices has caused some subsea projects to be canceled
or delayed but there are more than 100 projects moving forward. The subsea
vessel industry is currently expanding at 7%/yr. Over 54 percent of the active
fleet has been delivered over the past eight years. There are also an additional
115 vessels under construction. The status of projects is continually
reported in
Oil, Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects
published by the McIlvaine Company.
Pump companies play a critical role in the movement of working fluids and
product. Their subsea activities are analyzed in
Pumps World Market.
A number of large pump orders have been recently awarded. Lewa has won a
€30-million ($41.6-million) order for 40 process diaphragm pumps for two large
gas fields offshore Saudi Arabia. The development project is designed to process
70 MMcm/d (2.5 bcf/d) of ethane, propane, butane, and natural gas from the two
fields, producing on average around 50 MMcm (1.8 bcf) of market-ready gas.
However, peak demand could reach 86 MMcm (3 bcf).
The Lewa pump systems will be installed on 13 wellhead and two tie-in (drilling
and export) platforms and will work at operating pressures of 140 to 500-plus
bar (2,030 to 7,252 psi) to inject monoethylene glycol (MEG) and sulfur solvent.
The MEG will circulate continuously between the platforms and the glycol
regeneration units in the onshore preparation facilities, reducing the risk of
hydrates in the two subsea pipelines.
One issue is that the sulfur content of the two gas fields is at a significantly
higher concentration than in other areas, and starts to solidify at high
temperatures. To prevent blockage of the pipeline and ensure reliable transport
on land, a solvent for the sulfur must be injected continuously and reliably.
Sulzer Pumps Ltd and FMC Technologies, Inc. have an exclusive collaboration
agreement to further leverage leading-edge technology including world-class
pumps from Sulzer Pumps, pump services, and subsea systems and advanced
permanent magnet motor technology from FMC Technologies. Over the last
several years, Sulzer Pumps and FMC Technologies have developed, built and
qualified a new, high-speed helico-axial multiphase subsea boosting unit based
on Sulzer Pumps' topside pump designs.
ANDRITZ completed an order from two Chinese shipyards, Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding,
Shanghai, and China Merchants Heavy Industry, Shenzhen, with twelve submersible
motor pumps for use on jack-up rigs. The submersible motor pumps (multi-stage
centrifugal pumps in combination with maintenance-free submersible motors) pump
the raw water for the drilling platform from a depth of ten to 20 meters below
sea level.
Flowserve has won orders for water injection and liquid transfer pumps for Sabah
Shell Petroleum’s Malikai oil field project, 110 km (68 mi) offshore Sabah,
Malaysia.
The order comprises pumps for seawater lift, firewater, drain caisson, flare
knockout drum, circulation, and sump services.
Flowserve will provide four variable-speed drive barrel pumps constructed from
super duplex stainless; two WIK (BB5) multi-stage double-case diffuser pumps
supplying high-pressure deoxygenated water for well injection; and two HSO (BB5)
multi-stage, double-case volute pumps to transport crude from the field to the
KBB processing facility. Additionally, the company will provide six WUC
(VS6) vertical, double-case, multi-stage pumps, six Pleuger super duplex
submersible pumps, and six HPX (OH2) single-stage API process pumps.
Subsea Production Alliance,
combines Aker Solutions' offerings in subsea production and processing with
Baker Hughes' strengths in well completions and artificial lift. The
alliance will steer subsea well management planning away from heavy workover
systems to light intervention, with easier access to subsea trees. As for
boosting subsea recovery, the alliance can offer a wide range of single or
multi-phase pump solutions combined with different types of intelligent
completion and artificial lift solutions. The alliance would work on
technologies including subsea-optimized downhole electric submersible pumps;
integration of ESPs into subsea well jumpers for single-well boost or dual-boost
applications, potentially in existing brownfield wells; medium-cost light
intervention risers deployed from a rig, and ultimately riserless intervention;
and on ways of lifting oil longer distances to platforms.
For more information, click on:
N049 Oil,
Gas, Shale and Refining Markets and Projects
Pharmaceutical Companies to Raise Cartridge Purchases to $2.1 Billion in 2015
Next year pharmaceutical companies will spend more than $2.1 billion for liquid
cartridges. This is the latest forecast in Cartridge
Filters: World Market
published by the McIlvaine Company. (www.mcilvainecompany.com)
Pharmaceutical Cartridge Revenue ($ Millions)
|
Subject |
2015 |
|
Total |
2,155
|
|
Carbon |
129
|
|
Membrane |
1,078
|
|
Metal |
43
|
|
Non-Woven |
819
|
|
String Wound |
86
|
Cartridges are used both to purify water needed in pharmaceutical plants and to
separate product from liquids during manufacture. The smallest
particles are removed with membrane cartridges. This market will be in
excess of $1 billion next year. Non-woven cartridges remove particles as
small as a few microns but are not as efficient as membranes. Metal
cartridges are used for high temperature filtration.
The largest growth is coming in Asia where there is a construction boom centered
on generic drug manufacture. The major drug companies of the world are
building generic production facilities in China, India and other Asian
countries.
There are four trends driving the rapid growth in the Asian market:
·
Increasing ability to pay for drugs
·
Low per capita expenditures in the past
·
New focus on health care
·
Tighter restrictions forcing more cartridge expenditures per unit of production
There is growth in Latin America as well.
The Chilean pharmaceutical market is increasing at a compound annual growth rate
of more than 10 percent. This rate is expected to continue over the next
five years. Chile's pharmaceutical landscape is small but highly
competitive. The pharmaceutical market is dominated by prescription drugs,
with a smaller share of the market for nonprescription, over-the-counter
medicines.
For more information
Cartridge Filters: World Market,
click on:
http://home.mcilvainecompany.com/index.php/markets/2-uncategorised/117-n024
Headlines for Utility E-Alert –October 24, 2014
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