Twister BV Introduces SwirlValve™ Technology
Posted: April 23, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Twister BV has successfully developed and tested the Twister SwirlValve™ – a new gas processing product which improves the separation of two-phase flow across a pressure reduction valve, such as a choke valve, Joule Thomson (JT) valve or control valve. This in turn significantly improves the liquid separation efficiency of downstream separators.
The improved separation performance of the Twister SwirlValve can be used to either increase the flow capacity of existing JT-LTS plants, or to reduce the pressure drop required for JT cooling, or to lower the hydrocarbon dew point and also to reduce glycol carry-over. SwirlValves can be applied for all Joule Thomson expansion gas flows.
SwirlValve technology will be effective in flow debottlenecking of existing separator trains, and/or reducing pressure drop in JT-LTS processes, whilst minimising liquid carry-over and/or gas carry under, reducing chemical losses and enabling significantly higher liquid recovery.
Successful Twister Commissioning in Nigeria
Posted: June 19, 2009 at 10:31 am
The second commercially-operated Twister® Supersonic Separator system has successfully started up in Nigeria at the onshore Okoloma Gas Plant. The Twister gas processing module is used for dewpointing 120 MMscfd of gas which is being supplied as fuel gas to the Shell Petroleum Development Company owned and operated 650 MW Afam V1 Power Plant. The […]
Twister BV Introduces SwirlValve™ Technology
Posted: April 23, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Twister BV has successfully developed and tested the Twister SwirlValve™ – a new gas processing product which improves the separation of two-phase flow across a pressure reduction valve, such as a choke valve, Joule Thomson (JT) valve or control valve. This in turn significantly improves the liquid separation efficiency of downstream separators.
The improved separation performance […]
Ecopetrol Selects Twister Technology for Gibraltar
Posted: September 30, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Twister technology has been selected by Ecopetrol to dehydrate and hydrocarbon dewpoint the gas at their new onshore gas processing plant in the Gibraltar field in Colombia. The contract for the construction and initial operation of the plant has been awarded to GAS GIBRALTAR SA, a partnership between GASMOCAM SA and Twister BV. This is […]
Twister presents paper at GPA 2008 Annual Conference at Grapevine, Texas
Posted: March 26, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Twister presented a paper at GPA 2008 Annual Conference at Grapevine, Texas on the 5th March 2008. The paper presented the latest results of a third party study which compared Twister versus Joule Thomson expansion (JT-LTS) for efficient NGL recovery. The paper also explains how Twister is able to outperform both […]
Separation Goes Supersonic
Posted: November 20, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Efficient separation from multiphase wells offers economic and environmental advantages.
Authors: Marco Betting and Hugh Epsom, Twister BV
Upgrades in cyclonic separation improved performance on the Shell-operated 11 platform offshore Sarawak on the Malaysian portion of the island of Borneo. Twister BV, launched in April 2001, installed its first commercial Supersonic Gas Conditioning Unit on the platform […]