Compressed starting air for the oil industry in Ukraine
Oil production companies explore and produce two main types of raw materials: oil and associated petroleum gas, as well as storing and transporting these products. Gas compressor stations are required in all processes that involve gas.
Gas compressor stations. are used for:
- transporting natural gas through main gas pipelines;
- gathering and transporting associated petroleum gas;
- compression of oil gases in gas lift oil production;
- compression of associated petroleum gas in gas processing plant (GPP) technology;
- gas injection in the development of gas condensate fields, etc.
The main element of a gas compressor station is a gas compressor unit. To start it, auxiliary equipment is used, namely a medium pressure air compressor (up to 40 bar), which starts the gas pumping unit by supplying it with compressed air.
For many years Compressors International Ltd. has been cooperating with the enterprises of oil producing industry of Ukraine and supplies medium pressure starting air compressors manufactured by J.P. Sauer & Sohn Maschinenbau GmbH (Germany), which have successfully proved to be reliable modern energy efficient equipment.
Sauer Compressors is a German group of companies with 15 international subsidiaries. The company has a 140-year history and more than 90 years of experience in air and gas compression technology.
Today the company focuses on the development, manufacture and sales of oil lubricated and non oil lubricated medium and high pressure compressors for commercial marine, naval (SAUER, HAUG, GIRODIN and EK) applications and has small medium and high pressure models.
The SAUER range includes medium and high pressure oil compressors for a wide range of applications, while HAUG includes oil-free hermetic gas-tight compressors. The GIRODIN and EK ranges are specialised compressors designed for the needs of the marine sector.
The modern reciprocating compressors for compression of air as well as a variety of gases reach pressures from 20 to 500 bar. In addition to standard products, customised solutions for each type of application are available for individual customers, OEMs, etc.
Our main customer in the field of oil production for many years has been the leader of the oil industry in Ukraine - UKRNAFTA. The most popular of medium and high pressure compressors, which is most used by Ukrainian oil producing sector is the BREEZE compressor model, which is a part of SAUER line.
The main advantages of medium pressure compressors SAUER model BREEZE:
- reliability and durability (declared
resource from the manufacturer up to 40 years of operation);
- modern design and advanced technical
innovations;
- energy efficiency and easy maintenance,
low specific energy consumption;
- air cooling with innovative cube cooler
arrangement between motor and compressor, increasing cooling between stages by
30% compared to conventional cooling solutions;
- 100% factory tested compressors, including
EN10204 Class 3.1 inspection certificate and factory helium leakage test;
- safe operation by service personnel, no
access to moving parts, hot surfaces out of normal reach;
- trouble-free operation even under extreme
operating conditions (ambient temperature up to +55 °C).
- modern control cabinet with
microprocessor liquid crystal controller and multilingual touch screen
monitor;
- professional service support and timely
maintenance, guaranteed availability of spare parts (25+ years)
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With a worldwide network of representatives and partners, Sauer Compressors is always close to its customers. In Ukraine in particular, this representative is Compressors International. Complementing the compressor range with high-quality accessories, engineering services, installation and maintenance concepts, Sauer Compressors offers complete system solutions up to complete turnkey installation.
Today, one of the main tasks of the Ukrainian oil industry is to modernize its compressor fleet and implement modern energy efficient solutions by replacing technically obsolete Soviet compressors with modern compressors, with full adaptation to the technological process, and as a consequence to improve the reliability of production and energy saving through the use of reliable productive and energy efficient equipment.
Given the fact that high and medium pressure equipment in the oil industry is critical for trouble-free and uninterrupted operation, Sauer Compressors' equipment is ideally suited for this purpose, as the company specializes in such solutions and produces compressors that are fully compliant with the international requirements of the oil industry.
Compressors International is the official dealer of Sauer Compressors in Ukraine. Our highly qualified specialists provide a full range of services in the field of compressor equipment: comprehensive audit of the customer, engineering with selection of the necessary equipment, direct delivery of equipment from the manufacturing plant, supervision of installation and commissioning, warranty and post-warranty service.
