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THE GREEN RIG FLARE GAS RECOVERY

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FLARE GAS RECOVERY

MEETS THE FUTURE

Flare gas recovery lies at the heart of a range of integrated, new emissions abatement technologies.

By Wendy Laursen he World Bank’s 2015 launch of the Zero Flar- ered gas for power.

ing by 2030 initiative saw fare gas recovery be- Advances are such that BW Offshore, for example, pre- come a standard part of many topside produc- dicts that the FPSO BW Opal will consume up to 66% tion processing systems. Regulations in places less energy than industry standard designs. The FPSO will like Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico and the North enter operation next year on Australia’s Barossa gas feld,

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Sea fortifed this voluntary commitment. Now with the and will include combined cycle gas turbines with waste industry heading towards zero-emission FPSOs, fare gas heat recovery, a closed fame fare system and a hydrocar- recovery is being integrated with more ambitious technol- bon cargo tank blanket system with vapor recovery.

ogy developments. The need for remote operation of equipment is driv-

While feld layout and the ability to re-inject or export ing developments. MAN Energy Solutions is providing recovered gas are still major determinants for how much remote process supervision for four HOFIM motor-com- gas is fared, the move towards greater topside energy ef- pressor systems being deployed at the Yggdrasil gas feld fciency, through developments such as electrifcation, is in Norway. Two of these compressor systems will be in- potentially reducing the other main factor: the use recov- stalled at the unmanned gas production platform Munin. 36 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM