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Teesside plant sees new Breagh gas facilities
 The landscape at the UK's Teesside gas processing plant is changing with the installation of huge new slug catchers and a separator to handle production from the North Sea Breagh gas field development
A new pipeline carrying gas from the Breagh development is being tied into the Teesside Gas Processing Plant and part of the operations was the installation of 1,000 tonnes of new equipment including four 250 tonne 110-foot (33.5 metre) long slug catchers and a 60-foot (18.23 m) long 50 tonne process separator – all of which were built in South Korea.
The new Breagh equipment was delivered from South Korea to the Able UK yard on Teesside from where the new units were loaded on to heavy transport vehicles and moved into the gas plant where they have been lifted into place.
Slug catchers will used to remove and store hydrocarbon liquid and monoethylene glycol slugs which will occasionally be brought ashore through the new wet gas pipeline serving Breagh, explained Ian Clifford, operations director of the px group which is responsible for operations and maintenance at the Teesside plant.
This new equipment represents a £450 million upgrade to the TGPP and Andy Heppel, chief executive of Teesside Gas Processing, which owns the plant, said the installation of the new equipment is a landmark in the Breagh development. He said: “This was a major milestone in the overall Breagh project achieved safely by a large team including Amec, Abnormal Load Engineering and px.”
Operated by RWE Dea in partnership with Sterling Resources, the Breagh project involves landing gas via a new approximately 100 km (62 mile) long 20-inch gas export line from the Breagh Alpha platform, to Cotham Sands, in Redcar in the UK North East, and then via a 10 km (6.2 mile) 10-inch onshore line into the Teesside Gas Processing Plant at Seal Sands, which is owned by Teesside Gas and Liquids Processing.
Breagh received development approval in July last year and a second phase of development, using a second platform, Breagh Bravo, will tie in more wells east of the field, which is due to see development approval early this year.
First gas from Breagh is due mid-year.
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