May 4, 2024 · 29 min · 13 segments
An audio reading of the feature articles from the May 2024 issue of Gas Compression Magazine. This month's features include: ESG Quarterly Call Out: Renewables And ESG Drive Expansion At SSS Clutch…
Danny FelberHost
The rise of renewable energy has eaten into the business of many companies along the oil and gas supply chain, but not SSS clutch.
The company is in a period of expansion, fueled largely by pipeline operators seeking to electrify their networks.
We have been supplying clutches for dual drive units for more than 20 years, said James Neves, managing director of SSS Gears Limited, the manufacturing center for SSS Clutch.
Now with the environmental, social, and governance push giving more impetus to electrification and the use of renewable energy, pipeline operators are switching to electric drive.
They may be willing to change to electric drive, but some are realizing the wisdom of retaining the existing gas engine or gas turbine for redundancy.
Neves noted that dual-drive gas pipeline compressors installed by Energy Transfer are and its subsidiary dual-drive technologies have been paramount in keeping pipelines in the southern United States operational during extreme events such as the February 2021 ice storm in Texas.
The flexibility in the two prime movers is a must in the power industry and the increasing renewable power base.
In addition to energy transfer gas plants, SSS clutches will now be used on compressor sets owned by Howard Energy, TC Energy, Enbridge, and others who want to implement dual-drives.
The growing popularity of dual drive is showing up in the horsepower involved, where units used to always be below 5,000 horsepower for gas gathering and interconnecting pipelines.
Neves noted that some projects now are for dual drive units on main pipelines of up to 20,000 horsepower.
As utilities gain confidence with dual drive on smaller gas engines, they are adding them to larger gas turbine-driven pipeline compressors that require larger clutches.
Original equipment manufacturers like Baker Hughes, Solar Turbines, and Siemens Energy have also designed dual drive packages for large pipelines.
One end is driven by a motor, step-up gear, and clutch, and the other end is driven by a Siemens Energy SGT100 gas turbine and clutch.
Both dual-driven compressor sets will be installed in one compressor station to serve the 117-mile, 30-inch pipeline looping.
Electricity will be provided by Tennessee Valley Authority using renewable energy.
This is an expansion of Enbridge's existing East Tennessee natural gas system and will provide natural gas to serve a power station that will replace the Kingston coal plant.
These 2,000-horsepower Waukesha engine-driven compressors were reconfigured with new bases and had a clutch and electric motor added between the engine and compressor.
These reconfigured dual-driven compressor packages function as mobile units on skids that can be moved from one wellhead to another as part of the company's rental fleet.
Howard Energy Partners has been working on new pipeline construction projects to supply natural gas to Mexico from the Eagle Ford region.
The rise of renewable energy has eaten into the business of many companies along the oil and gas supply chain, but not SSS clutch.
The company is in a period of expansion, fueled largely by pipeline operators seeking to electrify their networks.
We have been supplying clutches for dual drive units for more than 20 years, said James Neves, managing director of SSS Gears Limited, the manufacturing center for SSS Clutch.
Now with the environmental, social, and governance push giving more impetus to electrification and the use of renewable energy, pipeline operators are switching to electric drive.
They may be willing to change to electric drive, but some are realizing the wisdom of retaining the existing gas engine or gas turbine for redundancy.
Neves noted that dual-drive gas pipeline compressors installed by Energy Transfer are and its subsidiary dual-drive technologies have been paramount in keeping pipelines in the southern United States operational during extreme events such as the February 2021 ice storm in Texas.
The flexibility in the two prime movers is a must in the power industry and the increasing renewable power base.
In addition to energy transfer gas plants, SSS clutches will now be used on compressor sets owned by Howard Energy, TC Energy, Enbridge, and others who want to implement dual-drives.
The growing popularity of dual drive is showing up in the horsepower involved, where units used to always be below 5,000 horsepower for gas gathering and interconnecting pipelines.
Neves noted that some projects now are for dual drive units on main pipelines of up to 20,000 horsepower.
As utilities gain confidence with dual drive on smaller gas engines, they are adding them to larger gas turbine-driven pipeline compressors that require larger clutches.
Original equipment manufacturers like Baker Hughes, Solar Turbines, and Siemens Energy have also designed dual drive packages for large pipelines.
One end is driven by a motor, step-up gear, and clutch, and the other end is driven by a Siemens Energy SGT100 gas turbine and clutch.
Both dual-driven compressor sets will be installed in one compressor station to serve the 117-mile, 30-inch pipeline looping.
Electricity will be provided by Tennessee Valley Authority using renewable energy.
This is an expansion of Enbridge's existing East Tennessee natural gas system and will provide natural gas to serve a power station that will replace the Kingston coal plant.
These 2,000-horsepower Waukesha engine-driven compressors were reconfigured with new bases and had a clutch and electric motor added between the engine and compressor.
These reconfigured dual-driven compressor packages function as mobile units on skids that can be moved from one wellhead to another as part of the company's rental fleet.
Howard Energy Partners has been working on new pipeline construction projects to supply natural gas to Mexico from the Eagle Ford region.
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