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Customer focus in improving Iraq market
With some of the world’s largest proven oil reserves, Iraq has been a focus for E & P majors since improvements in the security situation. Weir has supported oilfield developments there since 2009 with a services operation and continues to grow the business in 2012. Weir’s award from BP of a multimillion
dollar maintenance contract for gas turbines and pumps is the latest illustration of the levels of investment being made in the country.
Having worked from temporary accomodation initially, a permanent Weir service operation is being established in the Basrah region, capable of carrying out
rotating equipment overhauls, valve repairs and compressor and turbine overhauls and maintenance. The facility is expanding to provide oilfield equipment servicing capability similar to Weir’s other Middle East repair facilities. Allied to the service expansion, a recruitment and training plan is underway to develop the local workforce. “Weir is becoming recognised as a complete service solutions provider for the oil and gas sector in the Basrah region”, says N.K. Ramesh, Weir Deputy General Manager for Iraq, “with our commitment to the development of Iraqi manpower, the current local headcount will rapidly increase as we seek to develop our service operations.”
Record year for Middle East service operations
A buoyant Gulf market for drilling and pressure control equipment, combined
with Weir’s rapidly expanding Iraq operation contributed to a record year for input at Weir Engineering Services, Dubai. The operation was boosted by a significant increase in blowout preventer repairs and recertification and manifold overhauls and manufacture. Drilling related equipment is subject to API standards and Weir is also the authorised repair facility for Hydril Blowout Preventers (BOPs). These standards ensure that Weir supplies a top quality product, despite often tight deadlines required by the operators. Success is based upon the close working
relationship with the end user, fast response, turnaround and a reputation for quality in the market place.
Weir Minerals Africa ships first locally fabricated dense media cyclones
A successful strategy of localising production at Weir Minerals Africa took its latest step as it shipped its first orders of the innovative Cavex®
ceramic
dense media cyclones. The production of the cyclones, from the Cavex®
range, follows only three months after the production of the first Cavex®
cyclone was initially ceramic tiled DM cyclones
in the CVXA range. All these cyclones were locally produced in South Africa. The Cavex®
developed in response to industry concerns relating to cyclone wear and reduced efficiencies in grinding circuits. Typical feed designs are 75˚ and 180˚ involutes. Existing designs were prone to wear near the inlet as a result of turbulence and coarse particle scouring. Recent order successes included two 500CVXA cyclones to Petra Cullinan diamond mine, one 650CVXT for the new dense media separation plant at Okorusu Fluorspar in Namibia as well as eight 500CVXT cyclones and five 400CVXT cyclones for the Phola coal fine classification circuit in the Highveld coal
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The Cavex CVXT showing the ceramic tile lining
field in South Africa. The Cavex®
classification cyclones
have earned a prominent place in the world market and, based on the success of this technology a strategic decision was taken to enter the coal market with a premium brand Cavex®
DM cyclone
for coal applications. The coal sector is seen as an exciting new growth area for cyclones which traditionally only focused on hard rock mining. The entire CVTX range is locally fabricated to produce larger size cyclones in South Africa as well.
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