Compressor controls coordinated for CO/sub 2/ line

Journal Article · Mon Jul 31 04:00:00 EDT 1972 · Oil Gas J.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6243322

Hasenfuss, F

The world's largest transmission system for gathering, compressing, and moving carbon dioxide to oil fields will have a coordinated compressor station and pipeline-control system. The Sacroc Unit carbon dioxide injection project, now commencing operation in Texas, will be controlled at 3 levels to assure that the gas remains in its supercritical state along the entire 220 mile pipeline and meets the demands of the oil field operators. The project calls for the transmission of 240 MMcfd of COD2U to aid in oil recovery from the W. Texas fields. Carbon dioxide stripped from natural gas at plants near the Mexican border will be piped north at 2,000 psia to do the job. The elaborate system includes 6 engine compressor stations along the pipeline. Fifteen natural gas powered engine compressors with a combined 81,500 hp of compression will perform gathering, compression, boosting, and injection. A micro- wave telemetry transmission line will exchange operating data and tie all statiparticipanthe predetermined program. (5) Graphic representation informations can be stored in assembly language on a disk for rawas elaborated by Prof. J.A. Czubek from Institute of Nuclear Physics in Cracow.

• Research Organization: Worthington CEI Inc
• OSTI ID: 6243322
• Journal Information: Oil Gas J.; (United States), Journal Name: Oil Gas J.; (United States) Vol. 70:31; ISSN OIGJA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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