CASE STUDY Water Plants | Pipelines

Hayter Oil Satellite - High Water Volume Separation
Alberta

Project Capital Cost - $2.8 MM

The Mandate. The client needed to install field based facilities for removal of bulk water from the oil emulsion produced in the Hayter field and to provide additional water injection facilities.

The Solution. GRB engineered and managed procurement and construction of this project, which contained three major components:

1. Installation of a SKUD water separator.
   
   The SKUD is a 54" diameter by 55' long pressure vessel of proprietary design operating in a flooded condition and designed to remove bulk water from the oil emulsion. Approx. 50% of the inlet water is withdrawn off the bottom of the vessel and has a water quality of better than 400 ppm oil in the water. The remaining oil emulsion (approximately 4% oil) exits the top of the vessel and is pipelined to the Hayter Battery for processing in the unused Free Water Knock-Out.
   
   
2. Installation of two water injection pumps.
   
   The water removed at the SKUD site is directly injected through new electrically driven pumps to new water injection wells. The two injection pumps, 900 BHP each, are multistage horizontal centrifugal pumps. Power distribution and Motor Control Center equipment, as required by the pumps, was also installed.
   
   
3. Installed new pipelines (8" and 12") and line loops (10" and 12") to and from the SKUD location to reduce pressure drops in the field and allow production rates to increase.