Unique approach to the offshore gas disposal problem Castellon SALS (single anchor leg storage) production facilities

Conference · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979 · 11th Offshore Technol. Annu. Conf. Proc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5586761

Oneill, D A; Hoornenborg, B C

An underwater oil well operated by Shell Espana N.V. at a depth of 380 ft in the Castellon field, 40 mi offshore of Tarragona, Spain, produces about 10,000 bbl/day of oil containing 125 cu ft/bbl associated gas via an integrated production, storage, and offloading SALS system. (10th Offshore Technol. Annu. Conf. (Houston 5/8-10/78) Proc.) Closed incinerator unites, each of 1.2 million cu ft/day capacity, designed and built by Holec Gas Generators/Smit Ovens Nijmegen B.V. as a modification of its inert-gas generator concept, were mounted on the production tanker's poop. The incinerators, which can be built in capacities of up to 6 to 10 million cu ft/day, are based on stoichiometric gas combustion in Holec's patented ultramising burners, readily adapt to any gas-throughput variations, and can restrict the content of SO/sub 2/ and CO in the combustion gases to 1 to 10 and 10 to 1000 ppM, respectively. The system has been successfully operated since Aug. 1977.

• OSTI ID: 5586761
• Report Number(s): CONF-790444-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: 11th Offshore Technol. Annu. Conf. Proc.; (United States) Journal Volume: 2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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