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New life for Campos basin offshore platform

After 26 years operation coupled with the natural depletion of the field, the Cherne offshore platform operated by Petrobrás needed to upgrade the four existing Sulzer water injection pumps.

 

The goal was to increase injection flow without modifying the overall installation as major changes would result in significant loss of production during shutdown. The solution was to use the same pumps but fitted with new high flow hydraulics increasing throughput by 20 % at the same operating pressure. There was also a significant increase in efficiency allowing the existing electric motor to be retained. The retrofit also delivered lower operating vibration levels and an overall improvement in pump operation.

 

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