Installation of Amarinth designed and built 18m long API 610 VS4 pumps for Armada Madura FPSO

Installation of Amarinth designed and builds 18m long API 610 VS4 pumps for Armada Madura FPSO

Amarinth engineers have spent the last week in Singapore assisting with installation and commissioning of two 18m long API 610 VS4 pumps into the FPSO Armada Sterling V.

The FPSO will be positioned in the KG-DWN 98/2 field, approximately 22 km off the east coast of Kakinada, India. The vessel is designed to produce up to 90,000 barrels of oil per day (BOPD) and have a 1.3-million-barrel storage facility. It will be equipped to handle the monsoon conditions prevalent at the field.

The order was for six API 610 VS4 pumps, two are pour point depressant pumps that are 18m in length and the other four are methanol lift pumps that are 10m long. All pumps have PT100 temperature sensors that have been designed and built along the length of the pumps to monitor the temperature of each bearing individually. For each pump, the temperature sensors are terminated in a top surface junction box. The wiring is then fed to a control box through a unique armoured umbilical arrangement to on an independent instrument skid for each pump. All the pumps and associated wiring and instrumentation are rated for ATEX Zone 0.

The 18m long pumps incorporate a supporting system of brackets that Amarinth has designed which attaches each pump to its tank during installation ensuring that as the pump is lowered into the tank it remains perfectly aligned, reducing vibration and wear during operation.