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also upgraded the water injection facilities on sister field Ula on a similar basis in 1990. The new unit, together with HV motor driver, will be supplied in the autumn. Contact: The Weir Group Plc, 149 Newlands Road, Cathcart, Glasgow G44 4EX, UK. Tel: +44 141 637 7111; Fax: +44 141 637 2221.
Standards news One of 6 seawater injection pumps recently supplied for the White Tiger offshore oil platforms in Vietnam. Sulzer has just received a repeat order for these pumps.
ivision 0 International has received certification for its Byron Jackson line of submersible pumps from the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) . The MSHA certification applies to motors up to 450 kW, and qualifies these pumps for use in gassy environments unf16 million oil Offshore water derground. Carver Pump Companyu has and gas pump iqj e&ion orders received certification from Inorders tertek for compliance with the Weir Pumps has received orders IS09001 quality assurance standard. Sulzer (UK) Pumps has worth St3 million to provide Mono Pumps (South Africa) achieved further success in pumping equipment to boost has received IS0900 1 accreditawater injection in two North marketing its products to the tion for the manufacture of its oil and gas industry worldwide. Sea oil-fields. progressing cavity, rotary lobe All the units will be made Contracts totalling nearly and borehole pumps. from Weir’ s duplex stainless f16 million have recently been Woma Apparatebau of Gerwon for oil and gas production steel. Manufacturing will be many has been approved to facilities both on and off-shore carried out at Weir’s main IS09001 by Lloyd’s Register plant at Glasgow, with delivery and for refineries. Quality Assurance for the deThe off-shore projects in- later this year. sign, manufacture, sale and Foster Wheeler Wood Group clude three condensate booster service of its range of high has awarded Weir a contract to pumps for a gas production pressure water pumps and jetplatform in Indonesia; a repeat supply equipment for the Scott ting systems. order for six pumps for offshore field operated by Amerada Hess. The package comprises four Vietnam; two vertical injection booster Noise & vibration pumps for the Vigdis field in the units: single-stage North Sea Norwegian sector; 18 pumps, eight-stage low presseminars pumps for the Britannia gas sure injection pump, and twoproduction platform and four stage high pressure injection pumps for the Erskine project pumps. Diagnostic Instruments is runThe new units will run in in the British sector. ning a number of seminars on On-shore projects include parallel with seven injection noise and vibration analysis eight oil pipeline and booster pumps supplied by Weir in around the UK. Future semi1991. pumps for an oil production nars are planned at Plymouth The second contract, placed development in Colombia. (26th October) and Warrington The refinery contracts were by Aker Offshore Partner ASL (30th November). for two pumps with spare ready- on Behalf of BP Norge, is for the Entitled FlT analysis at to-install cartridges for Sweden supply of a multi-stage barrel work, the seminars focus on and twenty five pumps for the casing pump to increase pres- real life applications of noise Elf refinery at Milford Haven, sure in the BP Gyda field and vibration analysis. offshore Norway. UK A feature of the pump is its Contact: Anne &Sherry, DiagContact: Sulzer (UK) Pumps Ltd, high suction pressure (335 nostic Instruments Ltd., 264 West Manor Mill Lane, Leeds bar G), and it will operate Main Street, Whitburn, West LSll 8BR, UK. Tel: +44 1132 alongside other units supplied Lothian EH47 OLB, UK. Tel: +44 701244; Fax: + 44 1132 830023. by Weir in 1988 and 1992. Weir 1501 743031.
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