11 Emerson Process Management
Emerson Process Management’s Essential Asset Monitoring solutions are the industry’s first family of integrated wireless application solutions for equipment monitoring. The pre-engineered monitoring and analysis solutions embed process and equipment knowledge into a wide range of applications and use existing wired and new wireless instruments to form a network for continuous automated expert monitoring.
Integrated solutions are available for pumps, blowers, compressors, heat exchangers, fired heaters, corrosion, and cooling towers. The new 24/7 online monitoring solutions reduce monitoring costs through pre-engineering savings and wireless efficiency.
Whereas wired continuous monitoring is traditionally afforded for only the most expensive and critical assets, the lower costs of Essential Asset Monitoring solutions enable expanded asset oversight.
The pre-engineered solutions are scalable. Users simply choose the number and type of applications that monitor threats specific to their facility. Their resulting solution will include a wireless field network communicating data from monitoring instruments to AMS Suite operator graphics and maintenance screens, and to host systems and data applications.
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12 Etihad Rail
Etihad Rail’s wagons were carefully manufactured and designed based on several studies and integrated research efforts conducted in collaboration with Etihad Rail’s different suppliers, leading the company to adopt some of the most advanced rail technologies available in the world.
The rail project will change the face of transportation in the UAE, playing a significant role in building a sustainable economy by promoting growth in various business sectors, providing jobs for the local workforce, and contributing to environmental preservation, since one fully loaded train produces 70-80% less CO2 emissions than that of the trucks required to transport the same tonnage. The wagons were designed with the highest available safety standards to accommodate the core purpose of Stage One, the transport of granulated sulphur.
The wagons’ top-hatch covers for loading maintain the purity of the sulphur at 99.9%. Furthermore, train transport allows for a capacity of up to 22,000 tonnes of sulphur per day. It would take 360 trucks to transport the equivalent tonnage.
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13 Expro
Expro Meters supply the PassiveSONAR and ActiveSONAR meter. The combination of the two technologies serves the vast majority of upstream and midstream applications.
PassiveSONAR is suited for high liquid loading multiphase flows, typical of black oil and low pressure gas wells. ActiveSONAR, the second generation clamp-on SONAR meter, is well suited for gas and gas condensate wells with heavy schedule pipes.
Both meters are available in sizes from 2-inches to over 30-inches in diameter. SONAR meters have been tested at independent, NIST traceable calibration facilities to an accuracy of +/-2% in liquid and gas flows.
Expro has also developed the Total Production Surveillance system for flow measurement of black oil and gas condensate production wells. Employing SONAR clamp-on flow metering technology, the TPS system utilises a combination of PVT models and multiphase flow correlations to report gas, oil and water flow rates.
SONAR meters are also ideally suited for measuring the flow rate of injection wells. Accurate determination of injection rates enables operators to optimise their fields real time, maximising production while collecting high quality empirical data to update reservoir models.
Measuring water injection rates for water flood or pressure support, CO2 rates for carbon capture, injection gas for gas lift injections are well defined applications for SONAR meters.
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14 FEI
FEI has delivered a QEMSCAN WellSite analysis system to provide rapid onsite analysis of drill cores in oil and gas drilling operations. Core analysis is an essential component of formation evaluation used by geologists and engineers to determine the production potential of a well and to manage drilling and completion operations.
Having this capability at the well site enables reduction of analytical turnaround from several days or weeks to just a few hours (after the cores are retrieved from the core barrels or sidewall coring tools). The automated-mineralogy capability provided by the QEMSCAN WellSite solution increases the speed and accuracy of our core analysis.
In addition to microscopic mineralogy information, it can also provide two-dimensional porosity measurements and textural detail for lithological classification, which is valuable characterisation information.
With the QEMSCAN WellSite system, we can movethat advanced analytical capability right to the drill site, significantly reducing the time it takes to get the information to the people who need it most.
Near real-time decisions are important for our customers to optimise their drilling and completion designs, especially in high rig-cost environments, such as deepwater operations.
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15 Ferguson Group
IceBlue Refrigeration Offshore, part of the Ferguson Group, a specialist in providing refrigeration and freezer solutions for offshore food transportation and storage has developed a 6m dual zone refrigerated/chiller container.
The 6m dual zone refrigerated/chiller container was manufactured to DNV 2.7-1/EN12079 for the offshore energy sector.
The new product offers a flexible solution, in one container, for transporting a range of perishable foodstuff that requires specific storage conditions.
The unit is capable of providing cooling in either a single or dual zone compartment simultaneously in a -30°c to +20°c ambient temperature range. The IceBlue 6m dual zone refrigerated/chiller container provides temperature control for transportation and storage, suitable for use in a range of climatic conditions.
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16 General Electric
GE Oil & Gas Global Services offers monitoring & diagnostics, customer training programmes, and innovative solutions such as the Oregen system, which recovers waste heat from gas turbine exhaust and converts it into electric energy; GE’s Filter House technology, which is a multistage air filtration system specifically designed for gas turbines operating in harsh environments; and GE’s Power Crystal kit, which safely enhances power output.
GE Oil & Gas Measurement & Controls business highlights its solutions for condition monitoring, both portable and continuous, of rotating machinery through its proven Bently Nevada product line.
It includes the System 1 condition monitoring and diagnostics platform as well as wireless monitoring, motor monitoring and in situ scanning, diagnostic and surveillance system and portable vibration analysers to offer a truly integrated condition monitoring solution for customers.
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17 GlassPoint
California based GlassPoint continues to make headway in Oman. GlassPoint’s Enclosed Trough (ET) technology was heralded as the first new solar thermal technology in decades.
Specifically designed for rugged oilfield environments, the GlassPoint solution encloses the solar technology in a unique glasshouse structure to deliver durable, low-cost solar steam in industrial environments.
GlassPoint steam generators directly raise steam using standard oilfield boiler feedwater, eliminating ‘reboilers’ and expensive deionising units required by older solar system designs. GlassPoint says its new technology raises steam with solar energy and delivers steam at a fraction of the cost of gas-fired steam. Solar-generated steam can deliver up to 80% of total annual EOR project needs, reducing the amount of natural gas used by 80%.
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18 Hydro
Hydro, the largest independent pump rebuilder with a global network of service centres, provides engineering solutions and value-added services to improve equipment reliability and reduce overall life cycle costs. Engineering expertise is the foundation of our business.
From its inception in 1969, Hydro has maintained a strong focus on engineering as an essential part of the repair process, providing hands-on engineering support in the field and on the shop floor. Our engineers and technical staff have extensive experience in the Oil & Gas industry and with a broad spectrum of API Oilfield equipment and rotating equipment.
Hydro recently opened its Middle East Headquarters in Technopark, Dubai. The facility is custom built with capabilities such as 2 Overhead Cranes | Jib Cranes | CNC Machines | Vertical Boring | Horizontal Boring | Lathes | Welding | Furnace | Hydro-static Testing | Dynamic Balancing | Drilling | Milling | Fabrication | Vertical Assembling Pit | Band saws | Grit Blasting etc.
Our activities include: Manufacture, Repair and Re-manufacture for API 5CT, 6A, 7-1, 16A, 16C Oilfield Equipment and Downhole products | Pump Service, Overhaul, Rebuild , Overhaul, Re-rates, Upgrades | Parts for Pumps, Compressors and Steam Turbines | Field Service including Installation, Commissioning and Laser Alignment | Health Audit on Pumps
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19 Petrofac
Despite E&P spending reviews across much of the GCC energy business, one firm has continued to outstrip the competition to once again top the Oil & Gas Middle East Top EPC Contractors Annual List. In the period between June 2012 and May 2013 alone, Petrofac won $7.15 billion worth of regional projects, the firm has also announced further major wins in Oman and Abu Dhabi in 2013.
Large contract awards have continued for the EPC powerhouse. In April of this year the company announced Petrofac Emirates, its joint venture with Mubadala Petroleum, has been awarded a contract by Zakum Development Company (ZADCO) for the Upper Zakum. That partnership has proved a canny bit of business for the international player, seeing the firm continue to gain market share on the lucrative and highly profitable UAE upstream market.
The UZ750 contract is worth approximately $3.7 billion and has been secured by Petrofac Emirates in consortium with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd (DSME).
Petrofac Emirates’ share of the contract is valued at $2.9 billion. In June, Petrofac added to its global operations and maintenance portfolio with the announcement of a new agreement, worth $50 million, with Oman Oil Company Exploration and Production LLC (OOCEP).
The contract, for an initial period of three years, will see Petrofac deliver operations and maintenance at two new production facilities on behalf of OOCEP, the upstream subsidiary of Oman Oil Company, the national oil company of Oman.
These projects are OOCEP’s new Musandam Gas Plant in Bukha, Musandam, which comprises an onshore plant and utilities for receiving well fluids from offshore platforms in the West Bukha field; and the Abu Tubul onshore development in central Oman, which comprises multiple production wells, connected via a gathering and trunk line system to a gas processing plant. Both production facilities are currently under construction.
In April 2013 Petrofac won the EPIC contract for ADMA-OPCO’s Satah Al Razboot (SARB) package 3 project, offshore Abu Dhabi. The $500 million competitively tendered contract is thought to have commenced already for an April 2016 delivery.
The SARB Project is a high priority and new field development off the northwest coast of Abu Dhabi.
Drilling will be conducted from two artificial islands with the well fluid sent by subsea pipeline to a facility on Zirku Island for processing, storage and export. Under the terms of the contract Petrofac will deliver 200km of subsea pipelines for well fluid, water injection, gas injection, flare and export, along with 3km of onshore pipeline and 55km of subsea power and communication cables.
Regional success hasn’t been confined to the UAE and Oman. In December 2012 the company two engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) packages for Saudi Aramco’s Jazan Refinery and Terminal project.
When complete, the refinery will produce around 400,000 barrels of oil per day and have associated terminal facilities on the Red Sea near Jazan in the south west of Saudi Arabia.
The combined value of the EPC contracts is around $1.4 billion.
Petrofac’s Saudi Arabia office will lead the project management delivery of the work scope which covers tank farms in the north and south areas of the development.
In a statement Ayman Asfari, Petrofac’s group chief executive commented: “We have made a good start to the year, with positive progress across our portfolio of active projects, which remains in excellent shape. We have secured a number of important new contract awards in the year to date and we continue to see many new and attractive opportunities.
“Our strategy for long-term sustainable growth is based on three key drivers: expanding our existing business into new geographies; developing our leading EPC offering offshore; and delivering on our plans for Integrated Energy Services.”
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20 Samsung Engineering
Samsung Engineering continues its top flight status in 2013 thanks to a dynamic performance in Iraq, and its continuing major project haul in the Gulf. Samsung Engineering began the year well with a massive contract award from Gazprom Neft for the $879 million contract covering EPC for the Gas Separation Plant (GSP) on a lump sum turnkey basis in Iraq.
Samsung Engineering will be responsible for building the 200 MM SCFD central processing facility within 35 months. The plant is to be located at the Badra oil field in Wasit province in south eastern Iraq.
This facility will produce 170,000 barrels of oil per day by 2017 as part of the oil development plan by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil.
“With our expertise in GSP projects, we will make sure to maximise client satisfaction and contribute to the development of Iraqi society,” said Steve Fludder, senior executive vice president of Marketing at Samsung Engineering, speaking at the time.
The largest leading EPC player in Iraq, Samsung Engineering is also executing the West Qurna Phase 2 project awarded by Lukoil in 2012.
On the back of strong upstream orders, Samsung Engineering was able to confirm continuous growth through 2012, posting annual profit climb of 23%.
2012 highlights include the formation of AMEC Samsung Oil and Gas LLC (ASOG), a joint venture that will bring together AMEC’s world-renowned design engineering capability and extensive experience in offshore projects with Samsung’s leading project management expertise and shipbuilding technology.
2012 was marked by record new orders of $11.3 billion.
Samsung Engineering announced it had been awarded the Yanbu refinery expansion project from Luberef (Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining Company) in the fourth quarter of 2012. SE’s element of the project is valued at $871 million.
