PRODUCTION • PROCESSING • HANDLING
Fine Tubes has also been working closely with other supply chain partners to develop solutions related to the optimisation of existing and new wells. Te use of fibre optic sensing in intelligent well systems is well established, but technological issues still remain in successfully deploying this technology and generating industry standards. As a member of the Advanced Well Equipment Standards (AWES) group, Fine Tubes has taken an active role in the development of specifications and industry guidelines. New products include 1/8in armour for fibre sensing equipment as well as bespoke armouring of thermocouple and copper bundles.
IS THIS A TIME OF OPPORTUNITY FOR THE SUPPLY BASE? Most operators do not expect to see a return to historically high oil prices any time soon. Tey may well be right. But that does present opportunities for companies in the industry’s supply chain. As indicated above, the answer lies in being adaptive to changing industry needs, being responsive to
changing market conditions, and being open to new collaborations and partnerships. Trough the alliance of Fine Tubes and its sister
company, Superior Tube, both businesses have increased their capabilities, leading to significantly reduced lead times, an extended product portfolio and greater global reach. Now that both companies are collectively a unit of Ametek Specialty Metal Products, there are new opportunities for collaborations with other businesses within Ametek that target the oil and gas markets. But regardless of the positions individual companies in the supply chain take, the exploration of innovative, joint approaches to solving the needs of operators in a changing commercial landscape is where the successful future currently lies. l
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Mark Ayers is director, Oil & Gas Products at Fine Tubes.
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Fresh gasification innovations delivered A
leading manufacturer of high- performance filtration and separation technology has
secured spares orders worth US$5 million for Asia’s largest gasification projects. The deal will see Blue Ocean Monitoring expand its service offering globally with Ashtead providing asset management services and project support from its offices in Aberdeen, Houston and Singapore. Porvair Filtration Group began
working with South Korea’s POSCO E&C in 2011, and India’s Reliance Industries Ltd in 2013, providing advanced char filtration systems to both. Porvair has now supplied
performance-enhancing operational spares that are expected to be employed by Reliance and POSCO on-site in the near future, further heightening efficiency through durability, extension of operating life, and lowered costs. The filtration specialist is leading
innovations in gasification and sees its work with POSCO and Reliance as a demonstration of what can be
achieved in the production of synthetic natural gas (SNG) with products encompassing a range of high temperature filter elements and pulse jet blowdown systems.
outside of the USA – providing critical filtration of the syngas downstream of the gasifier and heat exchanger to remove the erosive and abrasive char that damages downstream equipment and processes. Following on from that success,
India’s largest private sector enterprise, Reliance Industries Limited, selected Porvair to design and build char filtration systems for its new pet coke gasification plant at Jamnagar, as part of the J3 expansion project. Reliance’s Jamnagar site is the
POSCO E&C, a division of multinational steel manufacturer POSCO, is building a coal gasification plant to produce SNG for powering its Gwangyang facility. The plant will incorporate Porvair’s hot gas filtration system – an established technology used to remove fly ash during the gasification process. In 2011, Porvair successfully
completed delivery of its initial POSCO contract, valued at in excess of US$10 million – the first CB&I E-Gas project
largest oil refining complex in the world, with an aggregate refining capacity of 1.3 million barrels of oil per day. The gasification facility – which is also the largest of its kind built in the world – is set to process petroleum coke and coal into synthesis gas using E-Gas technology licensed from Lummus Technology, the technology group of CB&I. l
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