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31st MEETING OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL COUNCIL

On this July 25, the 31st meeting of the Scientific and Technical Council (hereinafter – STC) was held. The agenda of the meeting was devoted to the “Construction and operation of energy facilities in oil and gas fields”.

Representatives of INNIO, EnergoTechService, Ariel International Corporation and ZINGA presented their projects at the meeting.

Regional Manager for Russia and CIS at INNIO, Andrey Nazarov, told about the main global trends of distributed generation: “The development of alternative energy sources and the introduction of new information storage technologies alter the structure of the electric power industry around the world. What decisions are the future? Distributed energy is a response to modern challenges”. Andrey Nazarov also mentioned gas engines as an element of predictable local energy, which allows full control of costs and reduction of the production cost.

Modern challenges of energy supply in the oil and gas industry (geological risks in the development of new fields, increase in the energy intensity of production at aging fields, reduction of world oil prices under financial and technological sanctions, etc.) require strategic decisions from oil and gas companies – the use of new approaches and technologies, financial models and organizational mechanisms. What changes in the strategies of oil and gas companies have already been successfully applied? What are at the implementation stage? The emergence of which breakthrough technologies can we expect in the near future? Alexandr Svergin, expert of energy supply of the Russian oil industry, Honored Power Engineer of the Russian Federation, Director of the leading company in the distributed power industry of Russia, EnergoTechService, shared his expert opinion on these issues.

Sergey Lukyanov, Project Engineer at Ariel International Corporation, stressed in his speech that “the current level of technology development allows almost full use of the extracted hydrocarbon raw materials and, in particular, of associated petroleum gas (APG)”. Most of the technologies require significant compression of gas and, therefore, installations for its compression. Ariel Corporation, as the world’s leading manufacturer of reciprocating compressors for gas and oil industries, produces compressors with a capacity of 30 kW to 8000 kW at a pressure of up to 538 Bar. About a third of the produced compressors (about 10 thousand units) are used to compress associated petroleum gas. He also spoke about the history of the creation of Ariel as a recognized leader in the global compressor industry, about the company’s products and the main areas of its application. However, most of the presentation was devoted to practical cases in which Ariel reciprocating compressors were used.

Head of the Service Department, Maxim Manokhin, spoke on behalf of EnergoTechService about “Service and repair of energy and technological equipment in oil and gas fields.” In his speech, he said that no-failure operation of gas-piston, gas-turbine or diesel units operating as part of an electric or compressor station is largely determined by the timeliness and completeness of their maintenance. He also mentioned how the Service Department of EnergoTechService organizes maintenance of its facilities and facilities of its customers, what the main difficulties in carrying out repairs on the field are and what modern solutions have already come to the rescue of service engineers.

Igor Vlasov, Sales Manager in Russia and CIS countries at Cummins Generator Technologies, and Jan Love, Regional Manager in Italy, Greece, countries of the Adriatic, Eastern Europe and Russia at Cummins Generator Technologies, told that, in the oil and gas industry, electric machines are widely used: transformers, engines and generators are used at all stages of the production cycle – from exploration and production to transportation and processing of hydrocarbons. It was noted that the local generation of electric energy depends not only on the stable operation of the drives (gas-piston, diesel and gas-turbine engines), but also on synchronous generators that transform their mechanical energy into electrical energy. Cummins Generator Technologies develops and manufactures a series of STAMFORD® and AvK® alternators with power from 2 to 10,000 kVA. Recognized worldwide for their quality, STAMFORD® and AvK® alternators are the benchmark for strength, reliability and versatility.

At the end of the meeting, Irina Stulova, Deputy General Director of ZINGA LLC (official representative of Zinga trademark in Russia) presented a system of anti-corrosion and cathodic protection using ZINGA materials. Zinga materials are produced in Belgium. The main idea in the creation of materials was the development of a unique product of a new generation, which at the same time combines the analogue of hot galvanization, paints, performing the role of cathodic protection. Together with scientists of the Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium), the company managed to create a know-how in the field of protection of metals from corrosion – ZINGA thin film system. The world experience of research has proved that it is possible to provide cathodic protection of the base metal only if the zinc content in the finished coating is not less than 94%. ZINGA is 96% zinc in a dry film on the metal surface. There are no analogues in the world.

Each speaker’s speech was accompanied by active discussions and questions.


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