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Weir Bulletin 7
Contracts
Offshore contract for
Weir Gabbioneta
Weir Gabbioneta will supply of the filtered and de-aerated sea
various high integrity API pumps water. This particular installation,
for TOTAL’s new Floating located on the FPSO deck,
Production Storage and requires three rotating gimbal
Offloading (FPSO) vessel Pazflor, joints to support each skid. This
off the coast of Angola. The FPSO mounting design avoids distortion
will have a processing capacity of of the skid and potential
200,000 barrels of oil per day and misalignment of equipment as a
can store 1.9 million barrels of oil. result of FPSO deck movement
The oil will be processed via 49 caused by severe operating and
subsea wells including 25 weather conditions.
producers, 22 water injectors and Nicolo Gavotti, managing
High integrity API pumps
2 natural gas injectors. director, said “We are proud to
The order includes units for the have won this important offshore
sulphate removal process. All contract. It is a very good example
wetted parts utilise super duplex of our excellent systems
stainless steel in order to assure engineering capabilities that we
the maximum reliability against continually deliver to our
corrosion due to chloride content customers.”
Weir Minerals Australia secure order
Well equipped vessel
Weir SPM Aberdeen successfully Services was created by Fracture
completed a bid tender for over Technologies in 2008 and
£300,000 to supply flow control secured a five year contract for
equipment for a new fracturing fracturing BP owned wells in the
vessel, the MC Island Patriot. North Sea. The vessel will be
The vessel is being modified by equipped with Weir SPM TWS
Stimwell Services in Esberg, 2250 pump units, creating one of
Denmark and is due to be the best equipped fracturing
commissioned in 2010. Stimwell vessels in the world.
High pressure paste pumps
China’s Northern Engineering CITIC Pacific Mining with China
Largest ever order for
and Technology Corporation Metallurgical Corporation as the
(NETC) placed an order for over lead contractor for the
Specialty Pumps
A$5m with Weir Minerals development of the project.
Australia, to supply high The pumps are critical Weir Power contract is a major success for Weir
pressure paste pumps for the equipment in the process and Specialty Pumps and provides the
US$3.5 billion Sino Iron project moving thickened magnetite Industrial’s Specialty Pumps momentum to be successful in this
in Western Australia. slurry from the concentrator at business in Salt Lake City have been high growth region.”
NETC, a design institute in the mine site to the port facility. awarded their largest ever order to The contract was awarded due to
China, has a contract to design The pump operating provide pumps for a water supply global recognition of the Weir brand
and construct an iron ore requirements specified by PSI project in the Middle East. The and the reputation of Weir Specialty
processing plant and chose China were beyond the existing multi-million dollar order includes Pumps to successfully deliver pump
Warman high pressure slurry pump design meaning that single-stage double suction pumps packages within a rapid delivery
pumps because of their proven design had to be upgraded by that will equip 14 separate pump schedule. The dedication and hard
track record in high density, the Artarmon Pump Technology stations to supply clean water to the work of the international sales team
high pressure slurry applications. Centre to meet the working region. has focused on growing the
The project is owned by China’s pressure. Tamer Qandil, director of business globally from the Salt Lake
international sales, said, “This City facility.
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