Awarded Orders

One of Pfizer’s strategic partners for the expansion is BCD, a leading process engineering solutions company based in Cork, which has been delivering high-purity process solutions to pharmaceutical, biotech, food and beverage, and chemical customers all over the world, since 1983.

With specific expertise in Product Formulation, Clean in Place, Clean Utilities and Thermal Treatment, BDC’s engineers are at the forefront of the development of innovative process, mechanical and automation solutions.

The process solutions for Pfizer are being constructed as Modular Skids and have a high demand for Guided Wave Radar Transmitters for level measurement duties.

As Magnetrol’s partner for sales & service in the UK and Ireland, ABLE has recently received orders for a significant number of the Model Eclipse 705 Guided Wave Radar Transmitter. The variant selected is the enhanced variant with a 304 stainless steel housing and AL-6XN stainless steel probe, specifically designed for hygienic applications. Furthermore, the instrument meets the needs and requirements for the wetted and non-wetted materials, process connections and surface finishes of hygienic industries.

In order to carry out moisture testing of the resin and filament printing materials, Laser Lines required a moisture specific analyser with good correlation to Karl Fischer titration. Laser Lines contacted ABLE in this regard and were introduced to the Computrac Vapor Pro XL. With excellent repeatability, precision, flexibility and an advanced user interface but without the need for toxic chemicals, the Vapor Pro provides the latest in moisture specific analysis technology.

After consultation and demonstration, Laser Lines selected the new Autosampler variant of the Vapor Pro which facilitates automated moisture analysis with the ability to test up to 16 samples with individual test profiles. However, it was the associated safety aspect of the Autosampler that appealed to Laser Lines; the construction of the Autosampler means that operators are unable to handle the ejected heated vials until they have cooled down to room temperature.

SGI re-injects one third of produced sour gas back into the Tengiz reservoir at extremely high pressures to maintain reservoir pressure. The injection compressor is like no other compressor in the world and represents the state of the art in sour gas injection technology. SGI enables about 25% of total TCO oil production as well as pressure maintenance to reservoir.

ABLE supplied myriad instrumentation to the original SGP Project back in 2006/7, including 35 Ultrasonic Clamp-on Flow Meters for both liquid and gas applications. This expansion doubled the production of existing processing facilities. ABLE scope also included Russian technical documentation including Metrology & GOST approvals.

Having provided sterling service for 16 years, certain meters on the sour gas service needed replacing. ABLE were contracted in this regard and supplied several dual channel meters built into cradles, ready to drop into the existing hazardous area enclosures.

When TCO’s Future Growth Project (FGP) was approved in 2018, ABLE were commissioned to supply over £14M worth of instrumentation, the legacy of our recognition as a proven supply & service partner to SGP.

FGP represented major plant expansion. The project uses sour gas injection technology, successfully developed and proven during TCO’s previous expansion in 2008, to increase Tengiz crude oil production capacity by about 12 million tonnes per year/260,000 barrels per day to about 39 million tonnes per year/850,000 barrels per day –  equivalent to current total North Sea output.

The Scott, Telford and Rochelle fields are tied into the platform. The Scott and Telford fields continue to produce through Scott. The Rochelle field reached COP in 2019. The CNOOC International strategy for Scott is to maximise recovery from the Scott and Telford fields in a safe and environmentally responsible manner, defer abandonment costs and attract third party or equity tieback developments.

The new rigid Telford water injection pipeline will be trenched by ploughing with the top of the pipeline approx. 0.6m below the seabed.

As part of the pipeline upgrade, CNOOC expressed a requirement for accurate and precise  injection of scale inhibitor into the line. ABLE were contracted to supply a dosing skid with three stainless steel Rheonik RHM015 Coriolis Mass Flow Meters each with ½” process connections. The meters were designed for 221barg at 10 litres/hr with a minimal pressure drop of 0.1 bar. Accuracy was verified at 0.2% of rate.

Morgan’s products and systems are used in high temperature industrial processing of metals, petrochemicals, cement, ceramics and glass, and by manufacturers of equipment for aerospace, automotive, marine and domestic applications. Their core strength is the ability to address individual customer challenges, using proven materials and applications expertise to design, manufacture and install optimum thermal solutions.

When Morgan undertook the test furnace upgrade/rebuild at the Bromborough Site, they decided to install a superior quality, high temperature surveillance camera to monitor the process. As suppliers of Canty’s process vision technology, ABLE were approached to resolve the application. ABLE recommended Canty’s ExtremeTemp Furnace Camera, rated for temperatures up to 1930°C.

The camera was duly purchased and will be located horizontally (or angled downwards slightly to minimise the accumulation of any airborne debris)  at the right-hand rear corner of the furnace chamber providing a 65° viewing angle. Normal operating temperature is around 1000-1100 °C and a typical furnace run is around 2 hours. The camera will have a dual instrument air feed: one to cool the electronics and one to maintain a positive pressure in the lens tube to ensure no furnace debris can adhere to and block the lens tip.

There also exists a potential interest in looking at glass fibre width measurement on the manufacturing side. Canty already provide this measurement for one of Morgan’s major competitors in Europe and budgetary costs have been advised. Watch this space!

They are proud of their first-class reputation for the services that they offer within all areas of engineering and consultancy. This reputation is based on their collaborative ways of working, highly experienced staff, value engineering and innovation, alongside detailed design and ‘best practise’ solutions.

One specialist area of operation is the provision of chemical dosing systems for purchase or hire. Working closely with the Coal Authority to provide a bespoke and collaborative design utilising Hydrogen Peroxide dosing for the control of Hydrogen Sulphide in air, the Dissolved Oxygen control loop will mitigate the risk of odour release from this amazing new biological water treatment process.

Vital to verifying the efficiency of the dosing process is accurate and repeatable monitoring of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) down to single digit ppb levels, and, being aware of the stellar reputation of the Jerome J605, Leada contacted ABLE to arrange a site demonstration of the analyser. Having successfully put the Jerome through its paces, Leada ordered a fixed monitoring variant of the Jerome installed in a thermostatically controlled IP67 environmental housing. Whilst bespoke in some respects, the system was similar to those previously supplied to Thames Water, United Utilities, Tideway Tunnel and Southern Water.

The commercial vehicle industry is facing major challenges. Future vehicles are expected to be ever more autonomous, networked and emission-free in operation. MAN Truck reviewing are seizing this opportunity to consistently realign all operational aspects of the company.

To that end, MAN are digitising their workshop processes and are using iPads to distribute jobs to their vehicle technicians, complete vehicle inspection checklists, supporting photographs, repair notes and reference to technical documents. They have some workshops that primarily repair and maintain customer vehicles in the petrochemical haulage sector so the iPads at these locations need to comply with the relevant intrinsically safe standards.

During discussions with MAN regarding the above requirement, ABLE recommended the Attexo IPAD Mini 6 intrinsically safe version, suitable for the Zone 1 demands of the petrochemical industry – MAN subsequently purchased 29 units. New in from Atexxo Manufacturing, the Apple iPad Mini 6th generation is originally manufactured by Apple, then converted and certified according to ATEX, IECEx and UKCA by Atexxo. Importantly, this removes the necessity for the customer to source the iPad and then obtain 3rd party installation, which is both timely and costly. The Atexxo case takes the most popular tablet in the world into the most challenging conditions whilst also allowing immediate upload to a network through WiFi or 5G.

Maran Ship Supplies PTE are part of the Angelicoussis Group which has a well-established track record dating back to 1947 when Antonis I. Angelicoussis founded the business. The group is based in Singapore.

The company’s stated mission is to provide world class shipping services to its clients across the LNG, tanker and dry bulk markets, in a safe, reliable and sustainable manner, whilst embracing the energy transition through innovative solutions for zero carbon vessels. The group currently has 143 vessels with a deadweight ton (DWT) capacity of 23,297,822 and a Cubic Meter (CBM) freight volume of 10,422,863.

Maran decided to equip a significant number of their vessels with cameras as part of an asset management equipment upgrade and with safety being paramount the devices had to be explosion proof. When consulted ABLE recommended the Cordex ToughPIX Intrinsically Safe Digital Camera from its extensive canon of ATEX asset management & field comms equipment.

The all new, highly robust CorDEX ToughPIX captures high quality digital images safely in Zone 1 and Zone 2 hazardous (explosive) areas. Whether in daylight, low light or even total darkness the auto adjusting CMOS sensor coupled with best-in-class LED flash, means that the ToughPIX will always deliver the required image.