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Termomeccanica Pumps Services – workshop view (left) & on site
intervention by local personnel (right)

This explains why ADNOC carefully considered while the third one will be driven by a variable
the extent to which bidders would maximize speed electric motor.
In-Country Value (ICV) in the delivery of the
project as part of the selection criteria for the One of the main reasons Termomeccanica was
award of the EPC contract. ICV is the mechanism awarded the contract for this job lies in its
ADNOC has integrated into its tender evaluation capacity to act as a true “system integrator”, i.e.
process to nurture new local and international in its capacity to manage the complex supply of
partnerships and business opportunities in additional auxiliary systems located outside the
support of the development of the nation’s main pump skids but key to their operations.
economy. In this case, such systems include:
• the API 614 lube oil system unit with API
ADNOC awarded the EPC contract to 661 forced air coolers;
Archirodon Construction (Overseas) Co. Ltd. in • the logic and control of the main parameters
2019. The scope of such contract includes the of the equipment, performed by a unit
development of oil producing wells, water control panel with its associated machine
injection wells, artificial lift wells, well-bays, let monitoring system;
down stations, water injection clusters and • a 24-pulse frequency converter in
other infrastructure required to sustain the accordance with Shell DEP specifications
production capacity of the field. that will modulate the speed of the electric
motor in order to supply the quantity of
Termomeccanica’s supply is related to said water needed by the customer;
water injection clusters and consists of 3 main • an oil cooled transformer (ONAN) with input
surface water injection pumping units with voltage to the primary winding of 33 kV.
related auxiliaries.
This further auxiliaries’ integration aims at
Each pump skid is composed of a horizontal ensuring the maximum flexibility and optimization
between bearings, radially split BB5-type pump of the water injection service at the field.
(TMP MESB model) in super-duplex material, an The design of the pumps and their auxiliary
electric motor and two auxiliary sealing systems systems – installed on and off the pump skids
plan 53B with forced air cooling, refilled by a – had to take into consideration operations of
single automatic top-up unit. Two of the pumps the pump at variable speed and under extreme
will be driven by a fixed speed electric motor external climate conditions, with temperatures

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