GlassPoint Solar, the leading supplier of solar energy to the oil and gas industry, says its Miraah project of Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has achieved a 55 per cent cost-saving compared to the pilot project.
In its recently published new cost-saving achievements, co-authored with PDO and presented at SolarPACES 2017, details how the companies have to date reduced costs by 55 per cent as the technology scales up from a 7MW pilot to Miraah project, a one-gigawatt solar thermal project under construction at the Amal oilfield. The savings resulted from the use of improved designs, enhanced tooling and increased workforce productivity in deploying its enclosed trough technology.
"GlassPoint's pilot project for PDO, which produces steam for oil production, has been operating successfully for more than four years. During this time, we worked closely with our partners at PDO to enhance the technology for oilfield deployment and improve overall cost efficiency as we scale by a factor of 100," said GlassPoint Acting CEO Ben Bierman.
GlassPoint's enclosed trough technology was designed to produce steam used in thermal enhanced oil recovery, a process typically fueled by burning natural gas. This solar thermal design takes parabolic trough collectors, or large curved mirrors, and puts them inside an agricultural greenhouse. The mirrors concentrate sunlight on a pipe filled with oilfield-grade water which boils directly into steam.
The paper details the ways GlassPoint has been able to simplify its solar collectors, which are suspended from thin wires from the greenhouse roof.
GlassPoint optimised the equipment and mirror manufacturing process, improving yield in the factory and mirror performance in the field.
The mirror material was reduced by 18 per cent to a little over 1 kg/m2, reducing material costs.
In its recently published new cost-saving achievements, co-authored with PDO and presented at SolarPACES 2017, details how the companies have to date reduced costs by 55 per cent as the technology scales up from a 7MW pilot to Miraah project, a one-gigawatt solar thermal project under construction at the Amal oilfield. The savings resulted from the use of improved designs, enhanced tooling and increased workforce productivity in deploying its enclosed trough technology.
"GlassPoint's pilot project for PDO, which produces steam for oil production, has been operating successfully for more than four years. During this time, we worked closely with our partners at PDO to enhance the technology for oilfield deployment and improve overall cost efficiency as we scale by a factor of 100," said GlassPoint Acting CEO Ben Bierman.
GlassPoint's enclosed trough technology was designed to produce steam used in thermal enhanced oil recovery, a process typically fueled by burning natural gas. This solar thermal design takes parabolic trough collectors, or large curved mirrors, and puts them inside an agricultural greenhouse. The mirrors concentrate sunlight on a pipe filled with oilfield-grade water which boils directly into steam.
The paper details the ways GlassPoint has been able to simplify its solar collectors, which are suspended from thin wires from the greenhouse roof.
GlassPoint optimised the equipment and mirror manufacturing process, improving yield in the factory and mirror performance in the field.
The mirror material was reduced by 18 per cent to a little over 1 kg/m2, reducing material costs.
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