3-phase-separation in a crude performance improved

Crude oil is a mixture of gas, water, oil, emulsion and several other impurities. To become a marketable product, the crude has to be processed with various methods. From the well, the crude is pumped to centralized plants. The separation process follows certain steps, as described below.

In older plants or plants with older systems, static separators are in use. This includes a row of big tanks for a batch-wise separation. After a batch of crude oil has been filled in one of the tanks, time and gravity work together to separate oil and water.

In each of these process steps Merus Rings improve the separation and help to get cleaner oil, cleaner water, less emulsion, faster throughput, less need of chemicals. This sounds to good to be true? Looking at the short video above you might have noticed, that the amount of emulsion has been reduced. After installing a Merus Ring the separation is facilitated and therefore needs less energy and time.

Speeding up the separation and improving all the related processes, has a direct impact on the costs. The calculations of the savings are mostly done by calculating the savings in service and chemicals. By tackling this bottleneck the whole process is improved which often increases the capacity of the whole plant. To calculate these savings is very difficult, so it has to be estimated individually for each case.