BHP Petroleum Pty. Ltd. has let two contracts valued at a combined 1.5 million to Peter Brotherhood Ltd., Peterborough, U.K., for a steam turbine and two gas compressors for installation on a floating production system (FPS) in the Timor Sea off Northern Australia.
BHP uses the converted oil tanker Jabiru Venture as an FPS to produce and store for tanker loading oil produced from Jabiru field.
Meantime, the Australian unit of Sonomatic Ltd., Warrington, U.K., completed for BHP ultrasonic corrosion monitoring surveys of the Jabiru Venture FPS and an FPS in nearby Challis field in the Timor Sea.
BHP last year appointed Sonomatic Pty. Ltd., Chatswood, N.S.W., to assess corrosion inspection needs for the Timor Sea facilities. Sonomatic used ultrasonic and imaging systems to examine pipes and structures for corrosion on both FPSs.
JABIRU PROJECT
BHP will use two Peter Brotherhood dual stage, two crank reciprocating compressors to inject gas at 2,000 psi for a gas lift program in the field.
The compressors will each be driven by a 630 kw electric motor powered by the Peter Brotherhood steam turbine, to be installed to handle the increased electric load on the Jabiru Venture.
One of the vessel's boilers was switched to gas fired from fuel oil fired operations in order to use Jabiru associated gas to raise steam for the 2,200 kw multistage steam turbine.
Peter Brotherhood is to supply the turboalternator as a complete package with integral condenser and complete control system.
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