The field’s advanced floating production, storage, and offloading vessel is equipped with high-pressure gas compression, combined-cycle power generation, and more.
Thin-wall casings and shell bodies play a critical role in turbomachinery, but their susceptibility to imperfections and buckling raises leakage and failure risks.
The new infrastructure includes a new power line, main 138-Kv breaker, 100-MVA power transformer, and numerous capacitor banks to allow full-speed, full-load testing.
Using a proprietary mix of sand and other particles, the dust-ingestion testing aims to replicate how parts may withstand flight conditions in harsh operating environments.
The September/October 2025 issue covers steam turbine optimization, a pump-centric conversation with the Hydraulic Institute, hybrid grid technology for stabilization, and much more.