Amarinth wins $4m orders from Petrofac in the Middle East 27 April 2010

Petrofac has ordered $4 million worth of specialist centrifugal pumps and associated equipment for the massive ASAB Full Field Development project in Abu Dhabi, from Amarinth for delivery by June.

The main EPC contractors order is to supply 33 VS4 vertical, and eight OH2 horizontal pumps, some with Amarinth Protect System seal support systems and others with the company's in-pump gulley sucker arrangement, together valued at $3m.

The ASAB project, the biggest on-shore project ever awarded in the region, is to upgrade existing facilities, enabling the operator Abu Dhabi Company for Oil Operations (ADCO) to increase production capacity to a peak rate of 720,000 barrels per day of stabilised crude oil.

The pumps will operate in demanding and harsh conditions, including covering low NPSH duties.

Prior to this order, Amarinth secured a smaller order from Petrofac on the same project for six API 610 OH2 pumps, for use in pumping produced and potable water.

Petrofac has also ordered 15 API 610 VS4 vertical sump pumps for use on a Sonatrac project in the El-Merk field in Algeria. Again, these pumps will operate in harsh conditions requiring low NPSH and this time will have to withstand high operating temperature extremes that can reach 315°C in an upset condition, which is very rare for a vertical sump pump.

Brian Tinham

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