Water Injection System Design & Selection

Nov 3

Water Injection SRU — The design of water injection systems is a key aspect of optimizing the economic return of any development. This is particularly true of systems that are placed on floating production systems, where weight, space and power requirements may be limited.

Water Injection Design

Viking provides expert advice to many deepwater assets regarding the layout of their water injection systems, including aspects such as the feasibility of commingled seawater and produced water injection, options for seawater lift, filtration technologies, sulfate removal, low salinity seawater injection, oxygen removal, process arrangement and injection pump selection.

Such considerations are based around the physical constraints of each project, the relationship between capital and operational expenditure for each option, and the overall system reliability and field economics for the development.

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