Shell taps Centrilift for seabed boosting systems
Offshore staff
CLAREMORE, Oklahoma --Shell has awarded Centrilift a contract for two deepwater seabed production boosting systems. One project is in the Gulf of Mexico and the other is offshore Brazil.
Shell's GoM Perdido development plan calls for five electrical submersible pumping (ESP) systems in seabed vertical booster stations. Centrilift will supply the equipment and will design, qualify, and test the system. Each system will include a liquid/gas separator. The vertical boosters will handle production from Great White, Silvertip, and Tobago fields tied back to the Perdido spar host. The spar will be in a record 2,438 m (8,000 ft) of water.
Off Brazil, Shell's BC-10 project will have six ESP vertical booster stations set about 8 km (5 mi) from the host FPSO. Centrilift again will supply design, qualification, and test services. Four of the system will include liquid/gas separators and the other two will use multiphase fluid pumps. BC-10 is in Campos basin water depths of 1,600-1,905 m (5,250-6,250 ft).
01/05/2007