A sour gas and oil processing plant in western Poland has recently been completed for a division of Polish Oil & Gas Co., according to contractor Propak Systems Ltd., Airdrie, Alta.
The 55-MMscfd processing facility will bring on production of a new oil and gas field located approximately 500 km west of Warsaw near Debno. The $85 million (Canadian) turnkey project was completed and placed in operation in March 2000.
Largest project
The plant will produce 8,300 b/d of oil, 400 b/d of stabilized condensate, 800 b/d of LPG, 130 tonnes/day of sulfur, and 45 MMscfd of residue gas. To maximize air quality, the sulfur plant uses technology that recovers 99.1% of H2S in the feed gas.
The main project equipment consists of 21 high-pressure wellsite line heaters, two field gathering and manifold systems, test separators, inlet oil treating and stabilization, H2S and CO2 gas removal, refrigeration-type LPG recovery, LPG mole sieve product treating, four-stage sulfur plant, steam boiler, water treating, product storage, loading and metering, storage tanks vapor-recovery system, firewater system, and a plant DCS and field SCADA systems.
This is a significant project for the Polish government in terms of cost and valuable products, said Propak in an announcement last month. "The total capital cost for this single project exceeds all other previous combined oil and gas processing projects in Poland," said the company.
The plant residue gas will be used in the first electrical power generating plant in Poland using natural gas instead of coal as the source of fuel.
The turnkey project was designed, engineered, and fabricated in Propak Systems' Airdrie, Alta., facilities using a skid modular concept. All of the individual pieces of equipment and skid modules were transported by truck from Airdrie to the Port of Houston, shipped from Houston to the Port of Szczecin, Poland, and then trucked to site for reassembly and final phases of construction.
The project shipment consisted of approximately 140 truckloads weighing a total of 2,000 tonnes with individual pieces as large as 25 m long and 100 tonnes.
