Pipeline
Offshore production presents a host of unique pumping challenges as the hunt for oil and gas has led to deep and often violent seascapes. This has made production much more arduous and hazardous. Flowserve offers extensive products and services to satisfy the pumping needs and specific requirements of offshore platforms and floating production, storage and offloading facilities (FPSOs). These include:
- Pumps fully compliant with API 610
latest editions and customer specifications - Highly engineered, robust and reliable pumps adapted to offshore space and weight concerns, operating and environmental conditions
- Extended pump mean time between planned maintenance with authorized maintenance service wherever required
Meeting New Challenges
New exploration and extration processes require creative pumping solutions. Flowserve is in the forefront of subsea technology with the application of integrated multiphase pumping and seabed processing systems. In the evolving practice of multiphase pumping, Flowserve is the only manufacturer offering the safety and reliability of shaft seals to API 682.
Addressing new challenges is where Flowserve's extraordinary experience and capabilities in hydraulic design, submersible motor technology and materials science pays off in pumps that are at home in the depths of the ocean as they are in the bowels of the earth.
Production and Pipeline
Flowserve produces a complete line of performance-proven pumps for all offshore oil services. These include: submersible motor pumps for sea water lift ballast rig water services; process pumps to move and handle oil, gas, and water; high pressure pumps for sea water injection; high capacity, high pressure pumps for crude oil transportation; and utility and fire protection pumps.
Offshore pipelines are carrying an increasing amount of the world's oil and gas. Pumps for these services must be robust and unfailingly reliable. Flowserve offers pumps for every conceivable pipeline application as well as for storage and transfer, including special cargo stripper pumps for loading and unloading.
Modern product pipeline operation requires batch type transport of various refined products ranging from fuel oils to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), often at varying pressures. Crude oil transported from oil fields may contain sand, salt, water, scale and other erosive agents. Often high cost multistage pumps are used. These harsh conditions require engineering input to achieve best mechanical seal performance.
At Flowserve FSD ongoing R&D programs have resulted in proven products that meet these special needs:
- Dependable performance in unattended main and booster station service, often at remote locations
- Operation under high pressures and very high face speeds
- Ability to handle a wide array of fluids of varying specific gravities - from light hydrocarbons to viscous sulfurous crude oils
- High resistance to dirt and abrasives
- Reliable sealing and low leakage despite radical fluctuations in temperature
- Performance in intermittent service, with many stops and high pressure start-ups
