Just so you know what Nitrogen28 Jan 2019 14:15
is capable of.
Cantarell is one of the world’s largest oil fields that is located in the sea. At the same time, it is Mexico’s most important crude oil supplier, with around one third of Mexico’s total production output of crude oil derived from this one field. Some experts, however, have suggested that in some years in the future, the oil reserves here may be completely exhausted; this is where nitrogen has come to the fore as a solution in postponing this juncture and maximising the return from the field’s reserves.
To raise the pressure in the field and ensure the flow of oil, large amounts of nitrogen must be pumped in, to which end a Linde complex of no less than five ASUs has met – and continues to meet – this demand. In the first year of nitrogen injection, Linde explained to gasworld, the flow rate rose by 60% after nitrogen was pumped in. Could there be a better example of nitrogen’s value in the oil and gas sector?