Equipment

Oil Processing

SPEC engineers and fabricates heater treaters, electrostatic desalters and stabilisation systems that bring crude and condensate to storage or export specification.

Three-phase outlet separator and condensate stabilizer vessels on their skids
Project reference

LPG Production Facility at Umutu Delta State, Nigeria 2009

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Crude and condensate must reach storage or export on specification.

Capabilities

Design and Fabrication Features

Thermal treatment

Heat applied to reduce viscosity and weaken the emulsion so water can separate.

Electrostatic coalescing

An applied field merges fine water droplets into larger ones that settle out.

Stabilisation columns

Stripping light ends to bring true vapour pressure within the export limit.

Desalting

Wash water and coalescing to bring salt content down to refinery or export limits.

Sour service design

Materials and detailing selected for high H₂S crude, as on the Ain Sifni development.

Inspection and testing

Manufacture, inspection, testing, surface preparation and coating under SPEC's quality management system.

Modular delivery

Trains can be assembled and tested before shipment where required by project scope, reducing site installation work.

Commissioning and start-up

Where included in scope, field engineers support commissioning, start-up and performance testing.

Skid-mounted units

Heater treaters, desalters and stabiliser columns supplied on skids with piping, instrumentation and access platforms.

Applications

Where These Systems Are Used

Early production facility

Treatment, metering and utilities for early production, as on the 10,000 BOPD Ain Sifni Phase 1 facility handling high-H₂S sour crude.

Finished pressure vessel mounted on its skid at SPEC's Jebel Ali facility

Central processing

Large treatment trains gathering from multiple wells, where desalting duty is set by the export or refinery salt limit.

Illustrative render of a stabiliser column within a treatment train

Refinery

Crude desalting ahead of the atmospheric column, and vacuum distillation duty as supplied to Frontier Company in Iraq.

Gasoline production complex at Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Project experience

See Our Solutions In Action

Oil treatment and crude and condensate stabilisation supplied for early production and gas processing facilities.

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Welders working on a pressure vessel at SPEC's Jebel Ali fabrication facility

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