Compressor technology – a key to efficient gas transport.
Methods and measurement tools have been developed by StatoilHydro.
Capacity at the Kårstø gas processing plant north of Stavanger has been expanded by 20 per cent, with a new and larger export compressor installed.
This 40 megawatt unit represents the veritable 'heart muscle' in the transport system which sends dry (sales) gas from the plant through the Europipe II line to continental Europe.
In connection with the installation, guarantee tests were carried out for the first time on a compressor in the actual production facility.
The result has been a new measurement tool and an innovative methodology, with unique tools for optimum operation of the plant and efficient energy use.
