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28/11/2011
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Specialist centrifugal pumps manufacture Amarinth has delivered £750,000 worth of API 610 OH2 pumps to ZADCO on a lead-time 10 weeks quicker than its nearest competitor.
 The new pilot plant, for a planned larger installation, was commissioned by ZADCO on Zirku Island, 140km north-west of Abu Dhabi, and is the main industrial base for processing, storage and export of oil from Upper Zakum, Umm Al-Dalkh and Satah fields.
Oliver Brigginshaw, managing director of Amarinth, explains that ZADCO needed a produced water treatment system on a very short lead time to meet the plant's operating deadline.
The pumps for the filtration system required a low shear design so that the oil and water would not be emulsified, but the water was high in H2S. Hence, the pumps had to be manufactured in a high nickel alloy.
Amarinth used various exotic alloys, including Inconel alloy 825, and has since secured further orders from ZADCO to upgrade API 610 VS4 vertical pumps, which it supplied to the company in 2009, with state-of-the-art flow sensors and external flush lines.
The new sensors will ensure that the pump bearings do not run dry, a health and safety concern in such hazardous environments where a major pump failure can cause loss of life.
"This order opens up big opportunities for us in the region, which has already been underlined by the subsequent work we have just been awarded by ZADCO to upgrade the VS4 pumps," states Brigginshaw.
"Following the Satah Full Fill Project we are now focussed on the large SAS (Sahil, Asab and Shah) offshore Development Project and continue to target the specialised requirements of the oil and gas industry," he adds.
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Brian Tinham
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