Achieving At Source Cleaning for the First Time

While feeding the centrifuge with a port slop pump, surging of fluid was observed, which meant it was not possible to achieve a stable flowrate, to overcome this a back pressure was introduced on the slop water return line.

This was the first time our client had a fully functioning slops system on board their FPSO allowing them to treat slops at source. Our inspection results post installation found all valves and functions to be working correctly. By implementing such a system enabled our client to realise long term commercial and environmental benefits. All works were carried out on time, without any LTIs and within budget.

• Improved wastewater treatment
• Reduced wastewater environmental and commercial burdens
• Future recommendations for continued improvement
• Zero LTIs

Our client, a UK operator, required their slops units to be operational prior to seeing first oil. To achieve this meant working to a compressed timeframe and delivering a solution that would enable all slops to be cleaned “at source”, which had previously not been thought possible.