Loadbank manufacturing and testing company, Crestchic, is power testing the gas turbines on a new Apache Corporation oil and gas platform in the North Sea.
Frazer Milligan of Apache Corporation said this of the innovative project: “As the turbines provide power to the entire gas field via a power ring main system – it was crucial that we ensure they can cope with the intense power loads expected.”
For this purpose, Crestchic is providing resistive loadbanks at 11kV to test two gas turbines, each providing 15 MVA to power the new platform.
