Oil & Gas

The standard OEM labyrinth seal on a pump at an oil refinery in Hamburg was failing on average every six months.

A 12-week delay on the commissioning of a new oil and gas plant in Kuwait was avoided when AESSEAL was able to step in to replace a defective competitor’s seal at short notice.

Lack of cooling with the existing system, improper installation and faulty alignment was causing a seal at a biofuel plant in Belgium to fail every one to two weeks, and sometimes after as little as one day.

The ability to source and supply a replacement seal in just two weeks has opened the door for further contracts between AESSEAL^® and the Aramco Oil and Gas operation in Saudi Arabia.

Steam leakage and spare part availability were causing problems for an oil and gas company in Belgium.

Engineers at the petrochemicals manufacturer INEOS have given the seal of approval to the AESSEAL® monitoring device System Sentry® following a field trial at the company’s plant in Hull in the east of England.

An oil and gas company in the Middle East is saving more than $600,000 a year following the installation of an AESSEAL^® product.

A petrochemical company based in the Middle East was having problems with persistent and costly seal failures.

AESSEAL stepped in when a mission critical general purpose steam turbine at a UK Ethylene production facility developed leaks and the original OEM seal housing was no longer available. We updated the 40-year-old turbine with a modern non contacting STS mechanical seal within two weeks.

A large oil and gas company in north Africa contacted AESSEAL to look at a sealing issue on its hot oil pumps.

At an oil refinery a labyrinth seal failed and it was not possible to get a replacement, they called on AESSEAL for help.

A company in Montana was having trouble with an unreliable seal on a debutanizer reboiler pump. The problems were being caused by an inner seal cooler.

A system installed at a US refinery has helped to eliminate a risk to personnel caused by the periodic release of hydrogen sulfide

An oil and gas refinery in northern England was experiencing poor reliability of its steam turbine.

Pump repair specialist, Production Pump in the USA were looking to improve pump reliability in the Oil and Gas Industry.

An upstream oil and gas company in Oman were having reliability issues with the sealing of their dual mode pumps.

A refinery in Canada were commissioning a new lipids coprocessing initiative where renewable feedstock is injected into the cracker.

A company in the Oil and Gas industry in Qatar were dissatisfied with the reliability of the mechanical seal used in crude export and oil/water booster pumps.

A major oil and gas customer in Oman was experiencing continuous leakage from the gland packing used on their export booster pumps.

A gas processing facility in the USA were having constant problems with the bearings on their cooling tower fans.

A gas processing facility in the USA was experiencing water ingress and oil leakage into one of its gearboxes.

On a molten sulphur pumping operation, at one of the world’s leading producers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Qatar, there was the need for continuous availability on three pumps.

During start-up of a new plant in South Africa, the customer had repeated problems with a mechanical seal that repeatedly failed. With start-up of the plant imminent, the customer required a reliable solution delivered quickly.

Following a series of failures using competitor bearing seals and labyrinth seals, AESSEAL were appointed to focus on a more reliable method of dealing their pumps.

A petrochemical plant in the USA was experiencing problems with oil leaking from the vertical input shafts of their pumps and called upon AESSEAL to help out with a solution.

Following a consultation with AESSEAL, a customer in Korea wanted to test the durability and performance of a MagTecta™ on their grease lubricated electric motors which rotate at 1,800rpm in a salt water spray environment.

A competitor seal at the petrochemicals company SI Group India in Mumbai was giving trouble.

An oil refinery in the USA was experiencing excessive seal failures with some even leaking straight from start up.

Seadrift Coke L.P., a Texas based stand-alone coker, was experiencing repeat seal failures on a hot oil pump, leading to unscheduled downtime every six months.

A major oil refinery in South Africa had an unreliable mechanical seal on a cooler water pump. Despite competitors trying a number of different seal support system configurations, the seal was failing approximately every 6 to 9 months.

With an unreliable pump seal, major South African refinery turned to AESSEAL for assistance.

A leading refinery in the UK was having trouble with seal leakage from existing carbon box technology on their 150#, 600# steam turbines.

A UK based Oil Refinery was having repeated failures on a Coppus 24 Steam Turbine.

Replacing labyrinth seals with MagTecta on 8 lobe blowers increases MTBF to over 400%.

A major global Oil & Gas exploration and production company was being left vulnerable.