Sealing for water and gas injection
High pressures of up to 600 bar (8,700 psi), varying purity and solids concentration of the media are among the greatest challenges in sealing injection pumps and compressors.
When it comes to water injection, our portfolio ranges from single mechanical seals to dual seals with barrier fluid systems. Special face and construction materials, represent state-of-the-art technology.
Numerous operators use our robust DGS seals in their gas injection compressors. We also supply perfectly configured seal management systems (SMSs) to safeguard optimal operation of the gas-lubricated sealing system.

An offshore plant in the North Sea has been fitted with an oversized clamshell expansion joint from Inconel 625. The expansion joint encases and protects a damaged bellows (DN 2000) of a turbine.
Operating conditions: p = 1 bar (14.5 PSI); t = 450 °C (842 °F).
A new developed pump seal from EagleBurgmann for dynamic pressures up to 600 bar, provided for a FPSO in the Tupi oil field off the Brazilian coast. The triple seal, type SHVF-D11/100-KB1 is applied in a CO2 injection pump. Medium: supercritical carbon dioxide.
Operating conditions: p = 481 bar (6,975 PSI); t = 40 °C ... 70 °C (104 °F ... 158 °F); n = 3,600 min-1.
StatoilHydro's Brage platform in Norway uses an EagleBurgmann SHFV-D4/160-E1-A3 as a dual seal in an AkerKvaerner water injection pump.
Operating conditions: p = 44 bar (638 PSI); t = 7 °C ... 80 °C (45 °F ... 176 °F); n = 3,585 min-1.
Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia uses a high pressure compressor seal, type PDGS/185-TA-U.
Operating conditions: p = 30 bar (435 PSI); t = -30 °C ... 130 °C (-22 °F ... 266 °F); n = 5,523 min-1.
Since 2005, PEMEX (Petróleos Mexicanos) has been using the EagleBurgmann DGS20/170-TA3-U together with the 13-SMS-2-DGS20 supply system in a Dresser Rand suction gas compressor.
Operating conditions: p ... 36 bar (522 PSI); t = 50 °C ... 130 °C (122 °F ... 266 °F); n = 8,295 min-1.
Dual seal type SHF-D2/202-E2, installed in the world's largest water injection pump from Sulzer Pumps on a BP offshore platform in the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan (AIOC project).
Operating conditions: p = 9 ... 31 bar (131 ... 450 PSI); t = 18 °C ... 32 °C (64 °F ... 90 °F); n = 4,800 min-1.
SHFV-D3/140-E3 dual seal with SPN120 supply system, installed in a water injection pump from Sulzer Pumps at PDO (Petroleum Development Oman) in Oman.
Operating conditions: p = 17 ... 22 bar (247 ... 319 PSI); t = 30 °C ... 80 °C (86 °F ... 176 °F); n = 4,700 min-1.
Compressors of Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia are equipped with a PDGS2/130-ZT3-U.
Operating conditions: p ... 50 bar (725 PSI); t = -20 °C ... 177 °C (-4 °F ... 351 °F); n = 15,800 min-1.
Eighteen magnetic couplings type MAKH66-110-3/43-00 are applied on the PRA1 platform off the coast of Brazil to seal a centrifugal pump from Sulzer (ZF 25200) in a buffer fluid system at 90 bar for supplying the mechanical seal of a crude oil pump. Since 2005, the couplings have lived up to their low maintenance design in a location that is difficult to access. Medium: ISO VG 46 barrier fluid
Operating conditions: p = 90 bar (1,305 PSI); t = 70 °C (158 °F); n = 3,500 min-1.
EagleBurgmann supplied numerous diaphragm couplings of type 74 are applied as joint between motor, gear box and compressor.
Operating condition: power = 241 ... 7,656 kW, n = 2,950 ... 11,281 min-1.
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