With the mighty Andes mountain range prohibiting access by road from Lima to site, transporting the equipment safely to site caused heads to scratch.

The optimal route of transporting the 18 air coolers and 9 scrubber vessels was a 5,000 km barge journey to the upper reaches of the Amazon river. Meeting the project schedule was critical, as the river is only navigable for a short duration after the wet season.  Any delay would push the plant start up back 12 months.

The air coolers were delivered in modular form, to provide better protection during the long voyage from Jord’s Asian based fabrication centre.  Close attention was paid to corrosion protection of the coolers and scrubbers, given the many months of ocean and river travel, between workshop and site.

The high pressure scrubbers vessels used a combination of internals; multi-cyclones for solids removal and vane packs for liquids.  Maximum flexibility was incorporated into the designs, to handle 28 operating cases over four phases of the gas plants expected design life.