Pre-assembled hoses aid marginal recovery projects
The use of pre-assembled hose strings is making feasible production from offshore oil wells where the water/oil ratio is sufficiently high to make uneconomic the transport of the mixture to a distant refinery for processing. The pre-assembled hoses cut costs and time when used on marginal recovery processing barges (MRPBs), those barges equipped with processing equipment to separate and dispose of the water produced and concentrate the crude for transport by tanker. In the Far East, one MRPB equipped with an assembled hose network has been operating successfully for more than a year. It was towed to the well and deployed over an existing well in a matter of a few hours, using only an existing loading tower crane.
- OSTI ID:
- 5929928
- Journal Information:
- Ocean Ind.; (United States), Vol. 17:3
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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