Crude Oil Pump Technology
With dwindling oil reserves it has become economically feasible to tap oil fields which less than ten years ago would not have been commercially viable. Crude oil production is now taking place in some of the most remote locations on the globe and under the harshest of conditions both on land and at sea. Getting the crude out of the ground is a major challenge but the work is only beginning once it is brought to the surface – the raw product must then be transported over great distances via a complex network of pipeline, intermediate pumping stations, treated and refined into the various petroleum products our modern life depends upon.
This is a high energy process and energy is not cheap, especially in remote oil producing locations which are more the norm today.
Modern oil production must take account of cost with far tighter margins than the 1970’s when only reliability and high availability of the production operation were required. Today, modern oil producers must ensure they are using energy efficient extraction and processing methods and are subject to the most stringent emissions and environmental controls that the industry has ever encountered in its history. This economic and regulatory environment is only going to become harder for production companies with the imminent introduction of carbon control regimes on a global basis as well as targeting specific industries, the oil industry is at the top of that list!
Oil producers are relying more than ever on established and trusted partners to provide fluid handling systems that deliver real Total Savings of Ownership (TSO) and provide reliable solutions which increase production and investment returns while operating in the hardest environments, both physical and economic. This demands a solution provider which is capable of delivering multiple fluid handling systems and ancillary support during installation and operation wherever the equipment is being used today.
