GE's compressor control technology helps Saudi Aramco improve productivity, plant efficiency.

Saudi Aramco, the national oil and gas company in Saudi Arabia, is a fully integrated, global petroleum enterprise and a world leader in ...

Saudi Aramco, the national oil and gas company in Saudi Arabia, is a fully integrated, global petroleum enterprise and a world leader in the exploration, production & refining business. The company manages proven conventional reserves of 260 billion barrels of oil and manages the fourth largest gas reserves in the world, 263 trillion cubic feet. Saudi Aramco's Haradh gas/oil separation plant were facing challenges with an ageing compressor control system, they turned to GE's Measurement and Control business, building upon GE’s past experience of providing turbine and generator controls for the company.As the world leader in the production of petroleum-based energy, Engineers at Saudi Aramco hold themselves to the highest standards of excellence and have very specific requirements when it comes to compressor control and protection. Haradh GOSP-1 is a critical plant for Saudi Aramco, and its three motor-driven compressors play a vital role by maintaining the compression of the gas after it is separated from the oil. The previous compressor control system used programmable logical controllers, which GE replaced with Mark VIe technology, along with GE’s OptiComp compressor control algorithms and remote control capability from the plant’s existing distributed control system. Also capabilities such as anti-surge, motor limit, pressure control, discharge pressure and pressure override control were incorporated into the new package significantly improving productivity and plant efficiency. GE also saved significant plant space by building a single platform to control all three compressors, two high-pressure compressors running in parallel and one low-pressure compressor running in series. DOWNLOAD VALVE SOLUTIONS APP. WANT TO PROMOTE YOUR PRODUCT? FEEDBACK @anand_rkrishnan