Oil & Gas Case Studies

Rapid response impresses Saudi customer

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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.

STS seal and LabTecta ST ends steam leak hazard

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Steam leakage and spare part availability were causing problems for an oil and gas company in Belgium.
System Sentry® proves its worth in Ineos field trial

System Sentry proves its worth in INEOS field trial

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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.

AESSEAL achieves major savings for Middle East oil producer

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

Major savings follow installation of AESSEAL product

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

STS steam seal updates UK Ethylene plant

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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.

AESSEAL product stops hot oil pump leakage

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

AESSEAL lowers the temperature in Montana

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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.

AESSEAL system eliminates danger of hydrogen sulfide release

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

Full steam ahead for refinery after change to STS seals

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

Cartridge seal simplifies maintenance and improves reliability

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

6 times improvement in MTBF for Upstream water injection pump

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

Improved reliability for new process

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

Seal upgrades save over US $3.4million in seven years

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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.

Seal upgrade improves reliability and saves over US$81k

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

MagTecta improves cooling tower fan reliability

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

MagTecta improves gearbox reliability

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

Seal upgrade improves pump availability

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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.

Fast delivery, reliable solutions.

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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.

Offshore oil and gas company calls in AESSEAL for bearing protection

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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.

Lip seal upgrade for US petrochemical plant

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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.

Salt water spray contamination eliminated by bearing protection

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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.

New orders follow success of AESSEAL installation

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

Reliability upgrade eliminates unscheduled downtime

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

MTBF increases by 233%

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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.

Improved pump reliability for oil refinery

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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.

Increased reliability saves over 1,500,000 ZAR

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

Improving reliability, increasing efficiency

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

Preventing steam ingress into the bearing housing

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

AESSEAL help a Polyethylene plant save €144,000 in 30 months

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

Unbeatable lead times on bearing protection

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