The Oil & Gas industry is one of the most important industries in the world. From the plastic we use to package our food and essential items, the fuel to run our vehicles and how we heat our homes, these are all produced from the Oil & Gas industry.

Sealing competence for the oil and gas industry is reflected in: Upstream, Midstream, Subsea, Oil sand, Pipeline Pumps etc.

Upstream:Sealing for water and gas injection High pressures, varying purity and solids concentration of the media are among the greatest challenges in sealing injection pumps and compressors.

Midstream:Sealing solutions for multiphase applications Multiphase pumps can pump mixtures containing oil, water, and gas and transport them over long distances in a single pipeline to separation. Therefore, separation of the oil from the gas and associated flaring of the off-gas is not required near the well head. The pumps are used on- and offshore as well as subsea. The pump types most frequently used are twin screw and helicoaxial pumps, whose seals must simultaneously seal off liquid and gas.

Subsea:Deepsea conveying equipment on the sea floor currently extracts oil at depths down to 3,000 meters. This oil is then pumped directly onto ships or on land via underwater pipelines. High pressures, low temperatures and the fluctuating composition of the media pumped characterize the conditions for sealing systems in multiphase pumps.

Oil sand:Oil sand mining Extraction of deep oil sand deposits via insitu mining is growing in importance. Established processes to accomplish this are CSS (Cyclic Steam Stimulation) and SAGD (Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage), which involve liquefying the bituminous oil mass by injecting hot steam so that it can be pumped with multiphase pumps. The eccentric screw and twin screw pumps used for this task are placed under enormous loads as are their seals.

Pipeline Pumps are basically employed for transporting crude oil through piping (pipelines) from the area of production or tank farm to refineries. The fundamental duty of a pipeline pump is to transport fuel that provides many benefits over the haulage including helping relieve port congestion, consuming less energy during transfer as the process is far more efficient.

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