Hazardous area certification available.

IMBU compressor analytics can be packaged in enclosures and with barriers that allow its use in hazardous areas. IMBU offers certified solutions complying e.g. with Peso, Kosha, Customs Union, Atex, and CSA.

IMBU typically uses the STAHL 8265 series enclosures with barriers in order to provide an intrinsically safe signal. In order to make installation on-site as easy as possible, IMBU can use EXe break-out boxes: a multi-core cable comes out of the EXd box and enters the EXe box where it is further distributed to individual sensors. IMBU typically includes a pole-mount together with the EXd enclosure in order to allow fast and easy installation on-site.

Supporting Seplat oil pipeline operations with remote pump analytics.

Seplat operates several oil pipelines. They use both centrifugal and plunger pumps. As they suffered several expensive gearbox failures, leading to extensive downtime and costly repairs, they requested IMBU to investigate the root-causes.

As part of the investigation, IMBU installed its remote pump analytics package, using high frequency sampled crank-angle referenced accelerometers and pressure sensors. Soon after, IMBU found several root-causes, which had led to these gearbox failures. As a result, Seplat has implemented several improvement measures in its pipeline operations.

Since 2013, IMBU supports Zhaikmunai LLP with condition & performance analytics on Ariel and MyCom compressors.

As so many oil and gas operators, Zhaikmunai operations are remotely located. To be physically present on-site takes a few days of travel. Back in 2013, Zhaikmunai, therefore, chose to partner with IMBU to work on a permanent “digital presence” in the Chinarevskoye oil-field. The continuous availability of condition- and performance data created a base, for ZKM and IMBU, to stay in sync on a permanent basis, jointly working on finding issues early and further optimizing compressor availability.

As an early adopter, Zhaikmunai operations have strongly benefitted from this approach leading to the improved overall availability of their Ariel gas-compressors (CAT engine driven) of 97+%.

Zhaikmunai is a showcase of how remote oil-and-gas operations can substantially benefit from the “digital presence” of IMBU, providing continuous support in optimizing operational efficiency.