Vortex Flow Amplifier
Helping you make the most of your energy
- Vortex Flow Amplifier increases capacity in existing pipelines
- Delivers higher flow rates for the same pump energy
- Reduces pumping loads and lowers pumping opex
- Assures longer, more reliable pump life and higher uptime
- Reduces manpower and maintenance opex
The Vortex Flow Amplifier
- Has no moving parts
- Neither requires nor consumes energy
- Requires no maintenance
- Its fixed profile, mass-balanced design eliminates vibration
- Has inherent soft backflow characteristics
- Is fully compatible with pipeline batching and pigging operations
- Supports multi-phase flow
Petroleum Industry: Upstream Production
- Efficient production gathering
- Production capacity bottlenecks
- Energy intensive pumping over distance and gradients
- High transport capex, opex and manpower costs
- Water access and post production management
- Increased oil and water flow rates with no additional energy
- Supports multi-phase flow
- Supports Pigging Operations
- Increased existing line capacity, reduced bottlenecks
- Reduced pumping capex and opex
- Improved flow assurance across value chain
- Reduced unit operating costs and maximized netback
Midstream Oil Operations
- Optimize value chain and flow assurance
- Capacity bottlenecks across the system
- Energy intensive pumping over distance and gradients
- Costly Drag Reducing Agent (DRA) opex
- High transport capex and opex, costly manpower
- Better integrated and flexible oil, water and gas services
- Increase flow rates with no additional energy
- Increase existing line capacities, including multi-phase, reduce bottlenecks
- Reduce pumping capex and opex
- DRA’s no longer required, saving $mm’s
- Reduce transport costs – pipelines, rail and tankers
- Improve flow assurance across value chain
- Reduce unit operating costs and maximize netback
Midstream Water Operations
- Integrated water gathering and management
- Capacity bottlenecks across the system
- Energy intensive pumping over distance and gradients
- High transport capex and opex, costly manpower
- Integrated and flexible water management services
- Maximize disposal capability as assets mature
- Increase flow rates with no additional energy
- Increase existing line capacity, reduce bottlenecks
- Reduce pipeline transport capex and opex
- Improve flow assurance across value chain
- Higher well disposal capacity with no extra energy
- Reduce unit opex and support oil production
Oil Sands
- Energy intensive pumping over distance and gradients
- Pipeline capacity bottlenecks
- Tailings processing and management
- Water management
- High transport capex, opex and manpower costs
- Pipe wear and elbow capex, opex ad manpower costs
- Increase flow rates of high viscosity oils carrying abrasive loads with no additional energy
- Increased existing line capacity, reduced bottlenecks
- Reduced pumping capx and opex
- Reduced pipe wear and long term opex savings
- Improved flow assurance across value chain
- Reduced unit operating costs and maximized netback
Refinery Operations
- Safe, reliable and efficient capacity utilization
- Flow assurance for viscous, waxy and challenging fluids
- Optimized loading, terminal flow and discharge
- Unit cost control and reduction
- Higher flow rates through existing pipe and pump systems
- Higher flow assurance for all fluids especially waxy and viscous types
- Faster loading, inter-tank flow and discharge
- Easier viscous line startup and flow
- Fully piggable operations
- Reduced product giveaway and cross-contamination
- Higher efficiency operations
- Opex and unit cost reductions
- Higher capacity utilization
