Hamworthy Technology & Products - Oil Separation, Water Treatment and Sand Management

Hamworthy is a leading provider of products and services to the upstream oil and gas industry. We have a strong commitment to innovation, integrity, safety and environmental sustainability.

We offer products and solutions within the range of upstream oil separation, produced water treatment, sand management and gas recovery and treatment. Our product portfolio within oil separation, produced water treatment and sand management includes:

• VIEC
• LOWACC
• ILMS
• Separators
• Produced water treatment
• Sand management
• Puritech fine filter
• Laboratory services
• CFD

Hamworthy's Technology and Products aim to be the world's leading technology partner, delivering unique products, which when combined will revolutionize the oil and gas processing industry. We thrive on the challenge of using our collective minds to 'enAibel' production of oil and gas in an efficient, responsible, intelligent and environmentally friendly way.

VIEC - VESSEL INTERNAL ELECTROSTATIC COALESCER

The Vessel Internal Electrostatic Coalescer (VIEC) will solve your emulsion and water in oil problems. The VIEC can be installed inside the first- or second-stage separator, and thereby enhance speed and efficiency of the separation process. Specifically designed to tolerate 100% water and gas, VIEC will contribute to more cost-effective and environmentally friendly production by enabling increased production capacity, reducing heat requirements and the need for demulsifiers.

LOWACC - LOW WATER CONTENT COALESCER

Our Low Water Content Coalescer (LOWACC) is designed to operate downstream of the VIEC to knock out the last traces of water. With the same robust design as VIEC, this enables one-stage separation and enhances heavy oil separation. The LOWACC is designed to be used in both high and low pressure separators, and is particularly good for separators with difficult separation or heavy emulsions. Due to longer retention time in the electrostatic field combined with di-electrophoresis effect, LOWACC can give you export quality of oil (0.5%) without any further treatment.

ILMS - INDUCTIVE LEVEL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM

The Inductive Level Measurement System (ILMS) is a unique level profiler. It clearly determines the transition from water to oil, and measures the oil content in through the water phase. It also detects sand depositions. The ILMS can measure both vertically and horizontally, and it can be installed in several places throughout the vessel, using the same 2in nozzles to penetrate the pressure vessel with cables, and it is very robust to phenomena such as scaling.

SEPARATORS

Separators have been designed and fabricated by Hamworthy for many years, and in the past five years we have delivered more than twenty separators. With our own proprietary electrostatic internals included, we are particularly good at designing separators for heavy or difficult separable oil, as well as for applications with produced water and sand problems.

PURITECH FINE FILTER

The Puritech fine filter is a water injection filter with pre-determined filtration efficiency, trouble free operation with a minimum of downtime and manpower requirements. It employs high-quality filter cartridges which are reconditioned with sulphuric acid.

Puritech fine filter is:

• Fully automatic, turndown 0%-100%, no rotating parts, no sand particles carry over
• Changeable filtration efficiency
• Especially well suited upstream sulphate removal membranes

SEPARATION DE-BOTTLENECKING

If your separator does not perform according to your expectations, Hamworthy - can perform studies involving one or more of the services described below.

CFD - COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

Our CFD group supports our laboratory and ongoing projects with analyses of the separation processes. This gives us a unique possibility to know what happens inside the separator, making it possible to design the most cost-effective separators for our customers.

LABORATORY SERVICES

Fluid characterization is of great importance for understanding the aspects of petroleum processing. To fill the void between university petroleum research and operational decisions, we have formed a laboratory to perform applied science within the field of oil separation technology.

With our experience and hands on approach to operational problems and challenges, we intend to meet the requirements for relevant petroleum tests and ultimately improve the predictability of separation phenomena. We offer customized or standard experiments both in our laboratory, and offshore with our mobile test separator.