Multiphase pumping is around the world for about the last 20 years. There was a "careful" start, mostly with smaller pumps, obviously to minimize a commercial risk with this new technology. Power installed ranged below 300 kW, with exceptions to be found in heavy crude oil applications. However within research projects power consumption went up even to about 1000 kW installed (1). In the mid-nineteen nineties, the power requirement gradually started to increase, and meanwhile has peaked even higher than 2000 kW. Similar to the power development, twin-screw pump capacities increased to 2500 m3/h, this in "oil terms" comes close to 400,000 barrels per day of equivalent flow of oil, water and gas.
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