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Weir Bulletin 13
Customer Focus
Putting customers in ‘Improvement Driving Seat’
Dewatering
pumps reduce
downtime
Weir Minerals supplied a variety of
dewatering pumps to De Beers’
Venetia mine, South Africa’s
largest producer of diamonds.
De Beers carried out a feasibility
study to determine dewatering
ratios following flooding at the
large open pit in November
2006, when the operation was
subject to excessive rainfall over a
short period of time.
The study revealed that it could
take up to 15 days to dewater the
open pit sufficiently in the event
of major flooding. Downtime on
this scale would create massive
production losses.
The existing dewatering
arrangement was not capable of
removing flood water at an
adequate rate and following
assessment De Beers purchased
Gerry Kavanagh of Weir congratulates Geoff English of Furmanite along with John McLeod
additional dewatering pumps
from Weir Minerals. The new
Weir support British
pump and pipeline installation
allow a dramatic decrease in
dewatering time.
Energy safety week
Johann Otto, service centre
manager, said “The pumps
selected were ideal because of the
high head and flow characteristics
important at Venetia due to the
Weir Power & priority, operating under strict aligned approach to health and depth of the pit. All of the units
Industrial regulations to achieve an award- safety. Weir promoted the Safestart are trailer mounted for optimum
recently participated in British winning approach to safety issues. concept, with health, safety, manoeuvrability allowing pumps
Energy’s safety week at Hinkley The safety week was an important environmental and quality experts to be transported easily around
Point power station in the UK. collaboration allowing Weir and available to support British Energy’s the mine.”
Safety is British Energy’s first British Energy to showcase their site safety awareness exercise.
Quick response
assists burning rig
Weir Oil & Gas in Australia assisted in the successful plugging of a burning oil
rig that had leaked thousands of barrels of oil into the Timor Sea over a 10
week period.
Weir SPM provided an emergency rental package of high pressure
temporary flow control equipment for a second drilling rig mobilised from
Singapore, to drill a relief well to stop the continual leak. The rental package
was mobilised within 48 hours of notification from the Henderson facility in
Perth, Western Australia, and was raced to Darwin where it was transported
by boat, along with other emergency equipment to support the rig.
The leak was plugged by experts, on their fifth attempt, by injecting
thousands of barrels of mud into the well. The Weir SPM equipment was
Weir SPM provided emergency package for burning rig in the Timor Sea
returned to Henderson ready for mobilisation on the next project.
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