2001-2005 Project Information
The ACI Kumkol Base is an example of Remote Site Start up and subsequent development and growth. The physical camp was delivered by train to Kyzylorda Kazakhstan; truck loaded and hauled 250 kilometers north to the Kumkol Oilfield. After assembly the base went into immediate
service.
The initial project was an oil field gathering system designed to feed a Central Processing Facility. After the start of construction and much consultation the original multi line, multi launcher, multi catcher design evolved into a network gathering system feeding the CPF through a riser manifold which accommodated the pigging program and future expansion.
Having successfully completed the first project ACI assembled a prefabricated shop to facilitate work during the upcoming winter program.
Kumkol's main CPF began to undergo Phase 1 of an ongoing upgrading program. Arctic participated from the beginning delivering a new overhead pipe rack from the concrete foundations to the completed piping. In Phase II and IIA a 6.5 meter high pipe rack was constructed to carry lines from 2" to 20" gathering raw product and moving the refined mediums between heaters, low level separators, high level separators, a pumping system, drain tanks and a new flare stack. During this phase a new heater was also installed. Arctic also transported (using late model Kenworths) the steel, pressure vessels and heaters for installation.
On a continuous basis while the CPF Upgrading Project was ongoing Hurricane Hydrocarbons (now Petro Kazakhstan Kumkol Resources) aggressively pursued an infield program which saw the laying of pipelines from four inch (4") to twelve inch (12") as oil and water collectors, feeders and injectors.
These lines connected BKNS water knock out facilities with wellheads, group stations and Mini Free Water Knockout Facilities which were themselves simultaneously under construction and upgrading. ACI built lines in every size and completed upgrades on the BKNS, a Mini FWKO and several Group Stations.
In the winter of 2002/03 The ACI Kumkol operation had five projects under construction with staff working out of three camps, two functioning as remote satellites to the Kumkol Base:
- Arctic was the Main Contractor on Kumkol's first and only Gas Turbine Project which delivers gas to electric generation and now supplies the Hurricane field and feeds surplus to the domestic grid. The construction involved overhead racks and piping, control buildings, three turbines, onsite facilities, and electrical works at the Turbine site as well as six remote Separator sites with self contained skid mounted but on site assembled compressors.
- The CPF Tank Farm Expansion tied in a new section of the tank farm and called for the installation of a pumping system which fed feeds reservoir oil through new lines to feed the KAM Pipeline Kumkol Pumping Station which is the upstream facility on the 177 Kilometer Pipeline between the Kumkol CPF and the Dzshusaly Rail Terminal.
- Of the total 177 Kilometers of the Kumkol - Aryskum - Maibulak (KAM) 16" pipeline Arctic and two local contractors each constructed fifty nine (59) kilometers. Because of the logistics involved ACI employed a remote camp as the portion allotted was in two sections.
- As follow up to Hurricanes drilling and well overhauling program a self sufficient crew was maintained in the Aryskum field to install and upgrade well head equipment and run short mains to connect into the new connectors which created a network of group stations. The typical designed called for heater, separator and elevated storage tanks with control shacks. At this time the client was moving and reorganizing tanks and various sized heaters to optimize the field rehabilitation program which had seen new wells brought on stream and mature producers re equipped to address current production. Once again ACI routinely moved tanks, heaters and oversized tank skids from a manufacturing plant 290 kms away. Cranes to assemble, disassemble, load and unload the equipment was supplemented with Arctic 's own crane fleet.
- Three Heat Insulation crews worked all of the Arctic projects as well as several tendered contracts. The crews worked lines, vessels, valves and buildings at heights and in manholes. The use of aluminum, galvanized and enameled sheet metal was common place on single sites.
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The above work schedule was carried out during one of
the most severe winters in recent memory in the Kyzylorda
region with the month of January and February hovering
around minus 30 degrees Celsius continually. The effort
and energies of the working men and the support division
of the company providing transportation, housing, material
supply, support logistics from office management staff
to QA/QC documentation personnel melded into an impressive
working unit, not without obstacles but neither without
the ability to persevere. ACI as a company are proud of
the accomplishment; and we continue to provide Pipeline
Construction Services to PFD in the Tengiz Oil Field.
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