vacon case study: pumping oil in fujairah, uae

VACON CASE STUDY PUMPING OIL IN FUJAIRAH, UAE

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PUMPING OIL IN FUJAIRAH, UAE

CLIENT NAME: ENOC and Audex Pte LtdSEGMENT: Oil & GasPRODUCTS USED: VACON® NXP Common DC busLOCATION: Fujairah, UAE

VACON CASE STUDY PUMPING OIL IN FUJAIRAH, UAE

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KEY FACTS OF CLIENT: • ENOC (Emirates National Oil Company) is wholly owned by the Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD) and provides the energy behind Dubai’s phenomenal growth.• The end customer was Horizon Terminals Ltd, a subsidiary of ENOC.

VACON CASE STUDY PUMPING OIL IN FUJAIRAH, UAE

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CHALLENGE: • Fujairah has a strategically significant location in the Outer Gulf, along the Gulf of Oman, and has become a regional hub for the international oil and gas trading business.• Emirates National Oil Company recently commissioned a new distribution terminal near the Port of Fujairah.• In an open, international competitive bidding process, ENOC and Audex Pte Ltd in Singapore – the main engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the new distribution terminal – selected Vacon as the AC drives supplier for the oil pumps used in ship loading.

VACON CASE STUDY PUMPING OIL IN FUJAIRAH, UAE

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SOLUTION:• VACON® NXP Common DC bus provides Active Front End units with a total power of 6 MW.• AFE units control five centrifugal cargo pumps and two heavy fuel oil PD pumps with constant torque.• Low harmonic AFE units eliminate the need for over-sizing in the upstream feed transformers and diesel generators, leading to substantial cost savings.• A non-standard Common DC bus with redundant AFE feeders ensures a high degree of redundancy, availability and flexibility for maintenance and operations.

VACON CASE STUDY PUMPING OIL IN FUJAIRAH, UAE

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SOLUTION:• VACON® AC drives improve process control at the oil terminal, maintaining a constant discharge flow, irrespective of the varying oil levels in the tank.• The drives were delivered in Fujairah in 2012 and commissioned in May/June 2013.• Scope for servicing included technical support, engineering, testing, installation supervision, site testing and final commissioning, and coordination with both the EPC contractor and the pump vendor.

VACON CASE STUDY PUMPING OIL IN FUJAIRAH, UAE

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TESTIMONIAL:“We have been very pleased working with Vacon. Timely engineering and technical support during both the bidding and the project phases, on-time-delivery and a good quality product ensure that we can hand over a world-class terminal to ENOC.”

Mr MurugesanGeneral Manager,Audex Fujairah LL FZE

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