By the OGJ Online Staff
HOUSTON, May 2 -- The Netherlands-based Twister BV Wednesday announced an agreement with the Norwegian FMC Kongsberg Subsea to introduce Twister gas dehydration technology to the subsea market.
Twister technology performs both gas dehydration and dewpointing in a unit with no moving parts and no emissions. Gas is conditioned to a state that does not require chemicals to prevent hydrate formations in the subsea infrastructure.
Martin Sorensen, technology manager of subsea processing at FMC Kongsberg Subsea, said, �The Twister device may become a crucial enabling technology for long subsea tiebacks, especially in deepwater.�
The technology can provide savings for both initial field development and operating expenditures, he said, adding the technology also makes untapped resources �technically and economically viable.�
The Twister technology is demonstrating gas dehydration at pilot installations in Holland and Nigeria.
Kees Tjeenk Willink, CEO and technical director of Twister BV, also announced at the Offshore Technology Conference that Sarawak Shell Berhad, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch/Shell, has bought Twister technology for use off Malaysia.
The Malaysia contract involves a new platform, the B11, which will feed to a liquefied natural gas plant, Willink said.
�This is the first commercial sale,� of Twister technology, Willink said.
The B11 field, 170 km off Bintulu, Sarawak, will be the fourth development to deliver gas to the MLNG-DUA plant under a production sharing contract between Petronas, Sarawak Shell Berhad, and Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd.
The B11 has a capacity of 600 MMscfd. Twister technology will be used on the B11 development in two trains, each comprising six Twister units less than 2 m in length. These units will remove both water and hydrocarbon liquids from the gas. Following simple gravity separation, the water will be removed from the hydrocarbon liquids before being exported with the gas.
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Twister BV Wednesday announced a cooperative agreement with FMC Kongsberg Subsea to introduce Twister gas dehydration technology to the subsea market.