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LATEST NEWS ON NEA GROUP
NEAC on an Investigative
Mission in Chad
In Chad, six NEA compressors of
size 63 and 130 are processing
carrier gas from their own oil
resources which is used in their
own power production plant. After
five years of operation, a piston
damage in one of its machines
made NEA suddenly aware of communication
problems. Harry
Lankenau and Timo Kitschen
travelled to the customer, one of the
world's leading oil and gas producers,
in order to get an idea on the
spot picture of the problem. It was
quickly clear that the factory required
commercial as well as technological
support. While Harry
Lankenau interviewed the technicians,
Timo Kitschen dealt with the
purchasing and materials dispatchers
and took a stock inventory of
spare parts for input in their SAP
system.
Shortly after their return, they received
a tremendous series of
orders: a package valued at around
half a million EUR, which contains
an extensive root cause analysis,
spare parts, an overhaul of two
machines as well as on site training
for 10 technicians. After completing
their training in January 2009, three
of the customers' technicians will
have the chance to put their theoretical
training into practice on each
of the overhauled machines.
Follow-up Contract for
Compressor System at the
Largest Underground Field
in Europe
Now that the final NEA compressor
from three machines has been successfully
taken into operations
since October this year for filling of
natural gas into the third storage
cavern with 230 bar discharge
pressure at the cavern field of Epe,
the German energy supplier surprised
NEA Deutschland in
November of this year with a followup
contract.
In cooperation with this gas supplier
an innovative compressor
system concept for the second construction
stage of the gas storage
cavern has been prepared. Whilst
the first cavern facilitates over a
working gas volume of approximately
130 million m³ of natural gas
and approximately 150,000 m³
natural gas per hour feeding and up
to 300,000 m³ per hour flushing, the
total for the second cavern is to be
increased in total to a working gas
volume with 240 million m³.
The advantage of the new compressor
is that close to 80% of its
wear parts are identical with those
of the currently utilized machines,
even though the volume flow has
been increased by 50%. From this
the construction of a 320-scale sixcrank
compressor with 500 kN rod
load was created. The economic
complete concept was also hereby
taken into consideration in the
energy production as well as in the
optimal design for the compressor
drive.
NEA Italia on the
Overtaking Lane
In addition to the positive results of
NEA Italia in 2008, one of the most
interesting orders has been placed
by an important company, which
operates as the EPC contractor in
the Middle East, with its center in
Sharjah (UAE) for a GTP, Gas
Treatment Plant, at Jihar.
The scope of supply includes two
recycle compressors of size 320,
three gas compressors of size 500
and three more ones of size 30 for
auxiliary gas services and spare
parts.
Due to the structure of this EPC
contractor, the engineering portion
of this project will be very detailed,
requiring intensive effort on the part
of the technical department of NEA
Italia.
NEA's Biggest Hydrogen
Compressors for Petrobras
Petrobras, in accordance with its
modernization and expansion plans
for its refining activities, is promoting
the implementation of the
Abreu e Lima Refinery which has
two Diesel HDT (hydro-treatment)
units. The bid for the engineering
and construction of the new units
was performed amongst Petrobras'
Engineering Dept, while the main
equipment was directly acquired by
the Materials Dept.
Within this context, in March 2008
Petrobras' Materials sector issued
an international invitation, giving
birth to the process of acquisition
and later receipt and analysis of the
proposals for compressors to
operate at this plant.
As soon as the technical analysis
and commercial discussion stages
were concluded, on Aug. 1st , 2008
NEA América do Sul received the
authorization for supplying the
compressors.