MULTIPHASE PUMP
3 4
2 2
1 1
EXISTING EXPORT
PIPELINE
DOWNHOLE PUMP
y In dummy well
y At mud line
Well fluid
SMUBS - Subsea Multiphase Booster Station for Draugen field, Drive fluid
AS Norske Shell
Multi-Booster;
A twin-screw Pumping Principle
• Multiphase boosting
• Shell, Draugen
(1 × 750 kW Water Turbine)
• Shell / Statoil, ELSMUBS
(1 × Electric Motor 1 MW)
• Statoil, Lufeng
(5 × Electric Motor 400kW)
• BP, ETAP
(2 × 900 kW Water Turbine)
• Mobil, Topacio
(2 × 860 kW Electric Motor)
• Norsk Hydro, Troll C Pilot
(1+1 × 1.600 kW Electric Motor)
BP ETAPS FIELD
History of Subsea Processing
Technical:
1200 hrs tests (submerged)
• Nuovo Pignone centrifugal
compressor
• 8 stage
• 850 kW
• 16 000 rpm
• Maag epicyclic gear
• Loher motor of
• 6.6 kV
• 1800 rpm
Testing included operation
as wet gas compressor BOET SUBSEA SEPARATOR -
INSTALLED ON ARGYLL FIELD
AT ITS END OF LIFE
Electric Power Supply
Oil Out VASP UNIT (Vertical Annular Subsea Separation)
Gas Scrubber
Gas Out LIQUIDS OUT
Wellhead
Fluids In
Inlet
Hdyrocyclone
Separator
Joints GAS OUT
Pump
Motor
TANGENTIAL
Liquid
INLET
Sump
Sand
Cyclone
Scf/
Bbl/day 1000’s Oil Gas Lift day
Produced Gas Gas
50 10 million
45 9 million
40 8 million
35 7 million
30 6 million
25 5 million
20 4 million
15 3 million
10 2 million
5 1 million
Note pre VASPS oil production of 35,000 0 0
bbls / day with gas Lift. After VASPS 44,000 Pre VASPS With VASPS
bbl / day with no need for gas lift
TROLL PILOT - UPDATE
•
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Operational 17 May 2000
• During Operation some 80% of the Water in the Oil Stream is Removed
• Late in 2000 the Equipment experienced some Mechanical Problems, this was not
to do with the Fundamentals of the Process.
- Separator with Novel Inlet Device (semi-Cyclone) which reduces Momentum in the
Wellstream gradually such that it Prevents the Formation of small Droplets which
would Reduce the Efficiency of the Separation Process.
- Control of the Oil / Water Interface. Monitoring based on Nucleonics and Electric
Sensors Control the Speed of the Injection Pump.
UPRDATE - PHASE 2
To pipeline
TT
PT
LT
PT PT
Multiphase
3-phase booster pump
separator
PT
FT PT
To water
injection
Produced water wells
injection pumps
9 200
000
BLOCK 16
40
60
10
12
0
00
00
80
PERPETUA
0
BLOCK 3
140
BLOCK 4
KIAME
0
VIOLETA
9 180 000
LIRIO
LIR1 VLT1 ANT1
160
BLOCK 32
CRA1
TULIPA HORTENSIA
0
ORQ1
CRA ANTURIO
HOR1
ZNA1
JAS1
UP-MIOC
00
DAL2
ACA1
GIR1
DAL4
DAL1 CML1
DAL5
DALIA
CAMELIA ACA1
UPPER CRM1
BLOCK 17
GAL1
20 km
Reservoir Burial Thickness Temp. Pressure
data (m) (m) ( ) (bara)
Upper Miocene
1100 10 ? 30 64 200
(UM1,UM2,UM3)
O9 & O9w
2000 40 ? 60 110 350
(Acacia)
MIOCENE Î Í OLIGOCENE
Subsea Gas/Liquid Separation « Conventional » Development
Single production line Dual line production loop
XT XT XT XT
P 10
XT XT XT
XT XT
XT XT XT XT
P 20 P 40
XT XT
XT XT XT XT
XT XT XT XT
P 30
XT XT
PAZFLOR DEVELOPMENT