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Member news ABB to support Equinor to develop next generation autonomous oil and gas platforms ABB is to apply its Adaptive Execution™ methodology to help optimise the first unmanned processing platform for the Krafla field in the North Sea.
Adaptive Execution™ integrates expert teams, new technologies, agile processes, shared learnings and proven methodologies into a more evolved end-to-end solution, tied together with the digital ABB Ability™ platform. Equinor has employed ABB also to deliver automation solutions for the Krafla oil and gas field development, that is part of the co-ordinated development of the licenses Krafla, Fulla and North of Alvheim (NOA). The unmanned processing platform (UPP) at Krafla will be wholly remote controlled from an onshore control centre leveraging the market leading distributed control system ABB Ability™ System 800xA equipped with Select I/O. The ABB system will monitor and control multiple units including two unmanned wellhead platforms and a subsea production system. — Krafla platform Enabling sustainable unmanned operations for next generation oil platform
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ABB will create a digital twin to simulate, test and verify the advanced functions needed for unmanned operations on the control system, before being installed at site. Brandon Spencer, President of ABB Energy Industries commented: “The platform has been designed with the intention of having no people on board, with no helipad, and the only possible access via ship. Instead, a new generation of remotely based operators will sit onshore, with the ability to start operations at the touch of a button. It is critical, therefore that collectively we get the design right the first time around. Everything needs to be tested and verified before being installed offshore.” Applying its Adaptive Execution™ methodology, ABB will streamline the entire project execution experience, combining efficient modular design with standardised, repeatable processes. With no localised power source onsite, the new platform also offers environmental benefits. Drawing power from the power grid onshore, which is primarily hydroelectric, will help to reduce local emissions.
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Amarinth supplies API 610 VS4 and OH2 pumps to the ADNOC Bu Haseer full field project
Amarinth, a world-leading, net-zero designer and manufacturer of low lifecycle cost centrifugal pumps and associated equipment for offshore and onshore oil and gas industries; nuclear and renewable energy generation; desalination, process and industrial markets, has delivered two API 610 VS4 vertical pumps and two API 610 OH2 horizontal pumps to the ADNOC Bu Haseer full field development project. The Bu Haseer oil and gas field is located between Das and Zirku Islands, offshore Abu Dhabi, UAE. Bu Haseer is the first of five new offshore fields being developed which together are expected to produce approximately 1.5bn barrels of oil, while a further onshore area of 7,800 sq km, which is approximately double the size of Dubai, is currently under exploration and development. Bu Haseer is being developed in two phases, an early production system (EPS), which commenced operations in 2018, and the second the full field development (FFD) phase, which comes online in 2020. The API 610 VS4 vertical pumps were specified for hazardous open drains in a space restricted area and so Amarinth leveraged its expertise on other similar projects to develop a bespoke design where the super duplex vertical pumps could be split into sections for shipping and then assembled within the available space on site. The pumps were manufactured in super duplex stainless steel to handle the sour and toxic fluid, which includes high levels of mono ethylene glycol (MEG), hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and high chloride concentration.
