Umm Lulu an offshore oil field developed by a major chemicals and industrial materials company
A joint venture of one of the Middle East’s leading integrated energy companies, a major chemicals and industrial materials company, it is located in the Arabian Gulf 30 km north-west of Abu Dhabi, UAE.
The Umm Lulu field is being developed as part of the strategic initiative of one of the Middle East’s leading integrated energy companies to reach 1.75 million barrels of offshore crude oil production a day. A consortium of a major chemicals and industrial materials company and a leading global engineering and technology company for energy was awarded a package of $1.69 bn EPC contract for Umm Lulu Phase II.
Subsequently, Ion Exchange was awarded the contract by a major chemicals and industrial materials company and a leading global engineering and technology company for energy for the critical seawater filtration package required to provide injection water for the Umm Lulu production reservoir to augment crude oil production.
The produced water from the injection well is conveyed using a lift pump, filtered, de-aerated and transferred by booster and injection pumps to the remote injection well at the Well Head Tower (WHT) via Umm Lulu Riser Platform (ULRP).
The anticipated requirement for the water injection system is to provide 11,90,700 m³/h of water per day with stringent water quality specifications (98% particles less than 2 microns).
To achieve the desired water quality, Ion Exchange designed, engineered and constructed two trains of skid mounted units each with a capacity of 5,95,350 m³/h that could be transported on a barge consisting of continuous coarse filter, specially designed media filters and polishing fine filtration to meet the stringent quality requirements of injection water. The offshore sea water filtration package was successfully commissioned in December 2019.
Zero Liquid Discharge for a major chemicals and industrial materials company
A major chemicals and industrial materials company is a synthetic rubber manufacturing plant in Panipat, Haryana (Joint venture of one of India’s leading integrated oil and gas companies & a leading global trading and investment group, Japan & a major chemicals and industrial materials company). It is one of the few producers of styrene-butadiene rubber in India.
The supreme challenge faced by a major chemicals and industrial materials company was stark water scarcity as well as no consent to discharge the complex effluent produced.
Ion Exchange has set up and executed a 125 m³/hr Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) unit for a major chemicals and industrial materials company. The treatment integrates a radical oil removal system followed by biological treatment and a state-of-the-art membrane system which incorporates UF-RO and multi-effect evaporator to meet ZLD norms.
The operation and maintenance are also carried out by Ion Exchange. With these solutions, a major chemicals and industrial materials company was able to recover 91% of water with TDS <150 ppm. This water is used in cooling-tower makeup and various process applications thereby empowering a major chemicals and industrial materials company to reuse water while meeting the stringent Zero Liquid Discharge norms.
