CREATION OF CRYOGENIC COMPLEX FOR LIQUID NITROGEN MANUFACTURE AND STORAGE IN «SURGUTNEFTEGAS»

Abstract

The growing demand in liquid nitrogen by oil and gas producing companies at present is observed. Efficient and safe air separation plants are necessary for its production. «Red Mountain Energy Corp.» supplies the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) markets with a great variety of liquid air separation plants made on the base of low pressure thermodynamic cycles. In the CIS eight plants of this type were put into operation by the company. Circuit design optimization and application of advanced engineering developments provide high efficiency and safety level of cryogenic equipment. It is paid much attention to the adaptation of standard engineering design to the conditions of specific manufactures and customers' demands. Such method is revealed in the fulfilling of a project for «Surgutneftegas» company in which the cryogenic complex for liquid nitrogen production and storage has been made and put into operation. The complex project was developed in close cooperation of the following companies' specialists that let take into consideration manufacture conditions and find the most efficient for its conditions engineering and technological solutions. As a result an air separation complex was designed and built on a turnkey basis in the shortest terms and it was successfully put into operation.