Culzean is a UK offshore facility located in the North Sea, 140 miles off the coast of Aberdeen. The gas condensate field can meet up to 5% of the United Kingdom’s gas demand. Our engineers commissioned three Siemens STG300 Gas Turbine Generators on the Culzean Platform. Commissioning services for the three GTGs included both onshore static testing of the generators and the subsequent offshore dynamic commissioning.

At Gradient Power Ltd. we come across many interesting projects requiring bespoke design and implementation. The Generator Control Panels upgrade at Boots Plc. in Nottingham was one such project. Our engineers conducted a site survey, recommissioned the control panels with modern upgrades of the excitation and protection systems, completed a new connection agreement with the Distribution Network Operator and carried out power quality measurements to calculate an optimal operating power factor for the generators.

Taking a lead commissioning role in substation projects is always a rewarding experience, requiring a proactive whole-system approach and collaboration with a number of different interested parties. Our engineer helped to deliver a major expansion project at Urenco UK, which is a nuclear enrichment facility in Cheshire important to the UK’s nuclear power industry. The project included a new 132kV mesh corner, one Gridyard transformer and two brand new 11kV substations.