DSME awards CLOV water treatment package

April 1, 2011
VWS Westgarth is to provide seawater treatment equipment for Total’s CLOV FPSO in block 17 offshore Angola.

Offshore staff

EAST KILBRIDE, UK – VWS Westgarth is to provide seawater treatment equipment for Total’s CLOV FPSO in block 17 offshore Angola.

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, which is assembling the hull in South Korea, requested an ultrafiltration system and a sulfate removal package (SRP). Both are due to be delivered next January.

They will be installed on the vessel’s topsides to treat seawater for subsea well injection. The ultrafiltration unit – the pre-treatment step to the SRP – will have a capacity to treat 391,288 b/d of water (66,208 cu m/d), while the SRP will treat up to 374,230 b/d (59,496 cu m/d).

According to VWS Westgarth, ultrafiltration equipment leads to a significant reduction in weight/footprint and improved water quality, compared with multi-media seawater filtration technology.

The SRP removes sulfates and other divalent ions from injection water, using Dow Filmtec membranes. Removal of the ions lessens build-up of barium sulfate and strontium sulfate scale in the reservoir, enhancing oil recovery.

04/01/2011