INDONESIA – NORWAY: STRATEGIC

PARTNERSHIP IN BUSINESS
Flare Gas Recovery
Wärtsilä Oil & Gas Systems
27 -Nov 2012
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WÄRTSILÄ GAS RECOVERY SYSTEMS

Wärtsilä Gas Recovery Systems (GRS) is an Business unit

within Wärtsilä Oil & Gas Systems. Our business idea is to:

Develop and supply systems reducing emissions to air

from oil, gas and petrochemical installations.

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 THE BALANCING ACT

Flare Gas/ VOC Product Output

Input

Long Term Depletion Load Distribution

Design Capacity?

Short term
operational changes

Buffering Balancing
 ZERO FLARING BUILDING BLOCKS
Flare Ignition System

Recovery Utilization

LNG production

Flare Gas Recovery

Gas Reformer Wärtsilä DF Field Power
V GASLIFTPower
Wärtsilä Power
LP GAS GD engine Generation

Pure water
Flare Gas

LPG Production production

GAS LIFT :
TEP-B (TEMANA PLATFORM B) PILOT PROJECT

Back-up gas lift

Offshore Commissioning
LP
of LRC system in June
60-70°C Ram pump
2000 barrels/day 6/7 bar 20/48 bar
Fluid
2010
Net profit 30.000 Euro / day
separator
GAS LIFTED
WELLS (es: Weatherford)
40/70 bar Immediate
HP results shown
G
20 bar
for 2 months
as

to
in
je
ct
ed
operation
m NATURAL FLOW WELLS Prod. Process
at
rix
G
LP Gas
6/19 bar
as
lif
t
An increase of A recovery of 1.8
60-70°C
10% in crude mmscfd of LLP
LP Wells production gas
• Based on a study from our Italian partner alberto poloni srl
• there are about 90 platforms eligible for EOR using gas-lift technology and
that could benefit from LLP gas recovery (similar to Temana B) in East
Malaysia.
• The gas is mostly vented and very often not even flared
• Increase in oil production can represent 20% increase.
• The gas that could be recovered from Temana field alone is about 50
MMSCFD.
 GASREFORMER BLOCK SCHEME

Heavier than methane hydrocarbons are transformed into CO2, H2 and

CH4 with a catalyst and steam from the engine exhaust gas boiler

Flare Gas

400 °C 40 °C
Heat
Heating Reformer Condens C1 +
exchanger
. CO2,
H2

Vaporizer

Water
GASREFORMER 8MW PILOT FOR
CNOC

• Lab Testing Q4 2012

• Preparations for shipping Q1 2013
• Commissioning Q2 2013

3498 mm

9000 mm

Weight 23 343 kg 2438 mm

THE MICROGAZ SOLUTION

1. In activated Carbon, methane becomes a “Virtual Liquid” at low pressures and

ambient temperatures1
2. Result: 3 to 8x more gas per tank2

Ambient
Temperatures
Enable =>
Lower-cost
Storage

Activated Carbon Supercritical Absorption

1. Van der Waals forces in nano-porous micro-lattice structure of activated carbon, force methane into a dense fluid
(“supercritical adsorption”) due to inter-molecular forced pairing of CH4 molecules in ≃0.6 - 6nm fractal nano-pores.
2. 3x to 8x more gas vs. standard CNG tanks, at the same pressure, up to 35 barg
THE MICROGAZ SOLUTION

1. Storage Tanks = safe, durable, any shape, any size1

2. Storage Capacity = 120 to 180 v/v2

Tank Safety, Stability

Flexibility & Durability
Enabling =>
Lower Regulatory & Insurance
Cost, Low OPEX &
expected 10 yr.
amortization

2-burner; 2 cf
(example)
1 burner; 1 cf
(example)
1. EXAMPLE: Basic Tank = 1 cf x 150 v/v = 150 scf - up to 35 bar (500 psi)
2. depending on carbon quality, pressure, cost & performance trade-offs, ambient temperature, etc.
 WÄRTSILÄ

PUTTING WASTE TO WORK

Bjørn Hartveit
Business Development Manager
Wärtsilä Oil & Gas Systems AS
bhartveit@hamworthy.com
+47 61139687