France’s Saft, designer and manufacturer of high-tech industrial batteries, has been awarded around $10mn contract by engineering firm Kentz to supply its Sunica.plus batteries for solar powered systems at Qatar Petroleum’s Dukhan oilfield.
Over the next two years, some 40,000 of the nickel-based Sunica.plus batteries will be deployed at around 775 wells across the oilfield, where they will provide energy storage and backup power for wellhead industrial control systems and corrosion protection systems.
Kentz is currently working on a $190mn dollar contract for Qatar Petroleum to provide a dedicated Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) network infrastructure to monitor the 775 wellheads in the Dukhan oilfield from designated stations.
Kentz’s scope of work also includes the prevention of external corrosion damage to the oilfield’s well casings by installing an impressed current cathodic protection system.
“The SCADA network and the corrosion protection systems will be powered by solar photovoltaic (PV) panels working in combination with the Sunica.plus batteries to provide the essential energy storage and backup power to ensure their total continuity of operation,” Saft said in a statement.
Xavier Delacroix, general manager of Saft’s industrial battery group division, said: “Kentz’s decision to select them for this very prestigious project for Qatar Petroleum’s Dukhan oilfield is further confirmation that Sunica.plus is the ideal choice for remote, hard to access installations where absolute reliability is essential and routine maintenance is time-consuming and expensive.”
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