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Customized Contract
and Technology Applied
for the Zubair Oil Field in Iraq
A success story witnessing Nidec ASI’s capacity to provide
solutions which can meet the challenging and complex
requirements of the oil & gas market
Gianfranco Zocco
Nidec ASI
in 1949, this is a principal field both in the Middle
East and worldwide. Production is expected to
gradually increase during the coming 20-year
long exploitation term from the current amount of
0.2 million barrels-per-day to 1.0 million by 2035,
Termomeccanica Pompe’s customer was Eni Iraq,
a member of the consortium (Eni, Oxy, Kogas,
Missan Oil) redeveloping the field and building the
new plant, under the strict supervision of the South
Oil Company, part of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil and the
end user’s consultant.
Fig.1 – Zubair Field location Over the past decades, the A consolidated technology in this field
(from Wikipedia and Google exploitation of giant oil fields has entails induction motors fed by voltage-
Earth) seen the development of electric source inverters to drive machines such
drives with increasingly high power as pumps, compressors etc. at a variable
ratings, high efficiency, operational speed, increasingly rated 10÷20 MW
flexibility and high reliability able to and specifically designed for this kind of
meet the harshest environmental conditions.
A consolidated technology in this field entails application and environment
induction motors fed by voltage-source inverters to
drive machines such as pumps, compressors etc. The pumping units will be installed in three different
at a variable speed, increasingly rated 10÷20 MW sites (Hammar, Mishrif and Rafidya), almost
and specifically designed for this kind of application inaccessible areas, where the severest and harshest
and environment. environmental conditions entail the application of
This paper presents a success story witnessing stringent design regulations in order to ensure the
Nidec ASI’s capacity to provide solutions which can total reliability of the machinery. For such a high-
meet the challenging and complex requirements of performance task, Nidec ASI developed a specific,
the oil & gas market. edge-technology drive concept, and supplied the
In 2013 Termomeccanica Pompe was awarded Power Drive System (PDS) to Termomeccanica
the contract for the supply of 12 pumping units Pompe for their water injection pumps.
for the redevelopment of the Zubair (Az Zubayr) • Nidec ASI’s scope of supply consisted of:
Oil Field in Southern Iraq (figure 1). Discovered • total electric power of 110,4 MW;
• 12 PDS for water injection pump trains;
• full-load system, tested at the Nidec ASI
facilities in Monfalcone (Italy) and pumping unit
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