Pump Station VFD Replacements

Replacement of discontinued equipment at multiple pump stations.

Pembina Pipeline Corporation | Alberta, Canada | 2017-2018

Minimized station down time throughconstructability sequencing

Collaborative and integratedproject team

Simultaneously executed aPLC hardware and PLC programs upgrades

Challenges

  • 孵化was retained by Pembina Pipeline Corporation (Pembina) to replace a number of discontinued Liquid Cooled Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) with Air Cooled VFDs at multiple pump stations on a Northeastern Alberta pipeline system.
  • 孵化first conducted pre-FEED evaluation of viable replacement or upgrade options for each of the six facilities.
  • Conducted a risk analysis of the outage time required to change the equipment.

Solutions

  • Recommendations were made based on a detailed technical assessment and considerations for cost, reliability, operability and constructability.
  • Collaboration allowed the new equipment to be installed with minimum shutdown time and minimum disruption to the pipeline operation.
  • Designed new electrical buildings at three of the sites.

Highlights

  • The level of collaboration was very high between Hatch, Pembina engineering and operations teams, site construction contractors, and the commissioning group.
  • A parallel project to upgrade the station PLC hardware and PLC programs was successfully executed simultaneously with the VFD Replacement project, which added another dimension of complexity to the overall execution..

Services & technologies provided

Midstream Oil & Gas

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