Advanced pump and valve solutions meeting offshore market demands

Oil Review Middle East hears from Trillium Flow Technologies experts about the company’s innovative solutions for the offshore environment.

Oil Review Middle East: Thank you for joining us today. Ensuring energy security is crucial during the global energy transition. With oil and gas accounting for 55% of global energy, the industry is increasingly using floating production systems to tap into new and existing offshore reserves. How is Trillium Flow Technologies contributing to meeting these demands?

Sam Eccles, pump product director: Trillium Flow Technologies has extensive experience and a diverse portfolio of engineered pumps and valves tailored for FPSO and FLNG unit operators. We offer innovative, reliable, efficient, and safe solutions.

Oil Review Middle East: What makes your pump solutions unique for offshore applications?

Sam Eccles: Trillium offers flexible, tailored pump solutions through our Gabbioneta Pumps and Termomeccanica Pompe brands, available in numerous configurations and materials like Super Duplex that meet NACE MR0175 / ISO 15156 and NORSOK M-650 standards. Our solutions feature skids with Anti-Vibration Mountings (AVMs) and Three-Point Gimbal Mountings to handle ship and deck movements. We use Finite Elements Analysis for design and conduct extensive in-house testing to guarantee reliability. Additionally, our oil and gas pump solutions include a complete vibration monitoring system with a dedicated human-machine interface per API 670 standards to prevent malfunctions and failures.

Oil Review Middle East: Sebastien, can you tell us about Trillium's engineered valve solutions for the offshore environment?

Sebastien Vermeulen, valve product manager: Sure. Through our Sarasin-RSBD brand, we recently designed a robust and efficient block-forged pilot-operated pressure relief valve (POPRV) without tubing to withstand the high pressure (up to 643 barg) on the gas compression units of a customer’s new FPSO platform design. This solution uses technology proven in the nuclear market, ensuring the highest pressure and capacity while maintaining reliability, safety, and cost-effectiveness. This resulted in a 60% reduction in the total cost of ownership of the valves in question.

Oil Review Middle East: David, what control valve solutions do you offer for the oil and gas market?

David Shaw, control & isolation valves applications manager: Trillium offers for instance tailored choke valve solutions through our Blakeborough brand, leveraging decades of experience and field feedback. Each application, such as production, water injection, gas lift, gas injection, and gas blowdown, is uniquely addressed to ensure optimal performance and minimal maintenance. Our choke valves can meet ASME B16.34 and API6A standards, guaranteed by rigorous in-house testing. Our innovative X-Stream trim solution, used in high-pressure drop services like water injection where sand or contamination is present, is more resistant to blockage than other multistage trims and is available in erosion-resistant solid Tungsten Carbide for extended service life.

Oil Review Middle East: Can you also tell us about the solutions provided by the Red Point brand?

Jizke Van Dura (business development manager): Absolutely. Trillium provides a range of non-commodity and fast-track delivery solutions for offshore applications through our Red Point brand. This includes ball, gate, globe, check, and double block and bleed valves with compact designs for space-saving or the API 6A monogram for wellhead and other applications. For a customer who was looking for a 3-way ball valve to divert an incoming flow of 120m³ evenly between two outlets for one of their FPSO project, Red Point showcased its expertise by proposing a 3-way globe valve instead for a more accurate flow diversion, also designing an adjustable lock on the stem to accommodate for possible changes in flow conditions. The valve was developed via CFD software and underwent physical flow tests to demonstrate its functionality and efficiency.

Oil Review Middle East: That's fascinating. Thank you, Sam, Sebastien, David, and Jizke for sharing how Trillium Flow Technologies is advancing offshore solutions.