Amarinth offers API 610 pumps for the West Qurna-2 enlargement project in Iraq

Amarinth has delivered two separate orders of API 610 pumps, collectively price £1.2 million, for the West Qurna-2 expansion venture in Iraq.
One of the Amarinth API 610 OH1 pumps with specialist Plan 53B seal assist system previous to cargo to Cannon Artes.
West Qurna-2, located approximately sixty five km north-west of the seaport city of Basra, is doubtless considered one of the world’s greatest onshore oilfields. The enlargement venture is predicted to increase the oilfield’s production capacity from the current 400,000 barrels oil per day (bpd) to 480,000 bpd, with a goal to realize a complete production capability of 800,000 bpd by 2025.
The first order, from Cannon Artes, was for seven tremendous duplex API 610 OH1 pumps. The bespoke designed pumps are for a low shear software and required specialist Plan 53B seal support methods incorporating air cooled seals and stainless-steel accumulators. All electrical objects had been IECEx certified to be used in an ATEX Zone 2 hazardous space. Despite the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic during the design and manufacture, delivery was achieved in the required time of simply 32-weeks from order.
weksler ea14 , from SICIM, was for 3 tremendous duplex API 610 OH3 vertical in-line pumps for produced water remedy. The massive pumps had impellers of over 500mm diameter and the casings, that weigh 1.5 tonnes, had been forged in a foundry in the UK. Plan 53B seal support methods had been designed to suit within a constrained footprint and because the pumps were destined for an ATEX Zone 2 space, the motors, seal support methods, and instrumentation had been IECEx certified. Witness testing and inspection was undertaken by Bureau Veritas and a full legalised Iraq documentation package deal was delivered with the pumps. Delivery was achieved on a short 38-weeks, despite the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic.
Oliver Brigginshaw, managing director of Amarinth, said: “We are delighted to have delivered these pumps to the West Qurna-2 expansion project, additional underlining our dedication to tasks in Iraq and the Middle East. We have efficiently delivered orders beforehand to Cannon Artes, but this was the primary order Amarinth has obtained from SICIM, and we sit up for undertaking additional business with them sooner or later.”
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