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a number of enquiries around center last year at Jandakot, near feld expansion, additional add-on Perth, on the same site as its service wells.” One example is Balder 3 center set up the previous year. for ExxonMobil in the Norwegian “This allows us do training and sector, where the company is development for our own people adding six more wells, as well as and for our customers.” refurbishing and upgrading the GE is investing in new facilities

Opoerations controls. worldwide. Last year, it opened Christie said that Angola had a $40 million extension to its been very busy in 2012, in terms substantial service facility in Macae, of deployment. The formation of Brazil. A two-phase redevelopment a new joint venture, GE-GLS Oil is under way at the company’s & Gas Angola, was announced Bridge of Don facility in Scotland. at the conference. As part of the An expansion to its machine shop agreement, the companies are in Montrose, Scotland, will open planning an initial investment shortly, allowing it to build and test of $175 million to build a new master valve blocks. Also in the manufacturing facility in Soyo, in UK, there is ongoing investment in

Angola’s Zaire province, that will Nailsea and a new projects offce supply subsea equipment to the has been opened in Bristol.

oil & gas industry in Angola. The new manufacturing facility will Technology updates start operating in two years. GE GE Oil & Gas, which currently committed to recruiting and training employs around 37,000 people in

Angolans for the project and a fairly more than 100 countries, expects to extensive hiring program is now continue growing. It had under way. Projects coming up in US$15.2 billion in revenues in

Angola include Chevron’s Lianzi 2012, and carried out over and a second phase of ExxonMobil’s 90 product launches. Technology

Kizomba satellites. solutions announced at the show Christie also saw a continued included GE Oil & Gas’s Artifcial high level of activity in Western Lift business-frst motor cooling

Australia. There are clearly mega system, designed to meet the also launched a new, higher- projects out there now – Chevron challenges of deeper wells and effciency electric submersible

Gorgon, Inpex Ichtys, and a smaller hotter environments. The system motor that simplifes installation. project – Apache Julimar – awarded provides lower motor temperatures Currently in fnal feld trials in last year. In Australia, the challenge and employs a unique design that North America, the new motor is is to fnd human resources to staff helps remove certain pressure and designed to deliver more power and the projects. To help overcome this size constraints, making it easier to higher effciencies than existing problem, GE established a learning install. The Artifcial Lift business motors. With its overall length

Virtual fow metering of calculating the fow rates through actual and predicted fows to improve enters reality a system based on the existing the overall accuracy.

Dean Arnison, subsea controls instrumentation, knowledge of the Virtual fow measurement has business leader at GE Oil & Gas subsea facility and the properties of the fuid. an attraction in that the prediction systems group, revealed that GE as This is made possible with the use of solution is relatively insensitive a group is working on virtual fow correlations that relate the fow rate to the loss of one or two physical metering with a feld specifc package to the pressure and temperature drop measurements across a multi-well developed last year being installed by through the system. Although in some feld. In other high integrity industry an operator ready for frst gas in mid- instances virtual fow metering can sectors such high availability systems 2013. For its virtual fow measurement be considered as an alternative to are described as having ‘graceful capability GE is moving towards physical metering it is often applied degradation’ properties.

commercialisation later this year with more successfully as a complementary “Our strategy is to go-to-market a generic version of the feld-specifc technology – where the different as One GE, building on the strength pilot installation. measurement principles of each and expertise of our unique solutions Virtual fow metering is a method method can be used to cross-correlate and product portfolio positioning to

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