Amarinth wins another order from Iraq Gates Contracting Company for bespoke API 610 VS4 pumps
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27 February 2023
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Amarinth
Amarinth, a world-leading,
net-zero designer and manufacturer of low lifecycle cost centrifugal pumps
and associated equipment, primarily for the offshore and onshore oil &
gas industries; nuclear and renewable energy generation; defence; desalination;
process and industrial markets, has won another order from Iraq Gates Contracting
Company, this time for two bespoke API 610 12th Edition VS4 vertical pumps
for the Rumaila oil field, Iraq.
This further order for Amarinth from Iraq Gates Contracting Company (IGCC)
is for two bespoke API 610 12th Edition VS4 vertical pumps with Plan 53B
seal support systems. The 3.5m long flare drain pumps are destined for
the Rumaila oil field, a super-giant oil field located 50km to the west
of the city of Basra, southern Iraq. The Rumaila field, managed by the
Rumaila Operating Organization (ROO), is estimated to contain 17 billion
barrels, the largest oil field ever discovered in Iraq and considered the
third largest oil field in the world.
IGCC came back to Amarinth following the company’s previous successful
delivery of ten API 610 OH1 condensate transfer pumps for the Rumaila field.
Space constraints in the tanks called for a particularly small support
plate of just 30 inches in length and so Amarinth designed a bespoke support
plate for the VS4 pumps with a special arrangement that still enables Plan
53B seal support systems to be mounted at the side of the pumps.
The motors, seal support systems, and instrumentation will be IECEx certified
and as with the previous order, the pumps will be inspected and witness
tested by Bureau Veritas and supplied with a full legalised Iraq documentation
package. The pumps are also required on an aggressive 25-week delivery
from drawing approval.
Oliver Brigginshaw, Managing Director of Amarinth, commented: “We are
delighted with this latest order of bespoke API 610 VS4 vertical pumps
from IGCC which underlines our on-going support and investment in Iraq.
With the orders from IGCC, and the other contracts we have fulfilled in
Iraq, we have developed an in-depth knowledge of the requirements of the
Rumaila Operating Organization enabling us to design bespoke pumping solutions
on short lead times that successfully meet their needs.”