NEW ENERGY GC FT&C NL1035 NL1036 Municipal waste to aviation fuel in Nevada
When the plant begins commercial operations in 2020, it will convert approximately 175,000 tons of household garbage into more than 10.5 million gallons of fuel each year.
Jord’s scope comprises balance of plant for a steam driven gas compression train, a 500 tpd amine system for removal of H2S and CO2, a second gas treatment system for removal of NH3 and various piperacks and structures.
You surely have to go back to Marco Polo in the 13th century to find a journey as epic as this one. Jord chartered its own ship to transport all 2,500 tons of plant to site. The journey commenced at Jebel Ali port in the UAE. The ship berthed briefly in Malaysia to collect some air coolers before crossing the Pacific to Stockton Port, Los Angeles. Then the real fun started. 59 trucks, 19 of them police escorted, were driven a circuitous 1,500km route across three states to the site in Reno Nevada. Circuitous because the loads were too big to summit the Rocky Mountains.
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O&G TOPSIDES NL1042 Compelling design extends life of ageing gas fields
Dubbed SHARP, or Southern Hub Area Rationalisation project, Jord’s task is to replace redundant compression equipment from the Leman and Indefatigable fields – developed some 50 years ago – with a single set of low pressure compression equipment that will serve both fields.
The project has two main work scopes. A brownfield element will simplify existing manned hubs into unmanned platforms and a greenfield element will involve conversion of a jack up rig into a new compression platform.
Jord’s scope entails two modules on the jack up rig, designed to separate, compress and export 100 MMSCFD of natural gas. In the foreground is a 250 ton gas compression module. Behind it sits a 270 ton slug catcher module. A third 220 ton pig launcher module forms part of the brownfield scope. Various smaller modules complete the scope of supply. These include chemical injection, fuel gas and produced water treatment.
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O&G COMP NL1032 Onshore EPC compressor facility delivered in Oman
Located in a remote desert country of northwest Oman, the facility compresses natural gas from 40psig to 650psig. Three API-618 gas engine reciprocating compressors were selected for this service. Additional process systems included in the EPC contract were 2.2MW of power generation, fuel gas conditioning, instrument air compression and a 60 MMSCFD emergency flare system.
In addition to gas compression, the turnkey project involved considerable brownfield modifications and civil work. And also handling 120,000 BLPD of associated produced water. Two 5,000 bbl tanks and three 375kW centrifugal API-610 pumps were the centrepieces of this system.
To comply with Omani in-country value (ICV) regulations, local companies were used where practical for sourcing of components as well as for all site construction works.
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