Bury based cable safety seal manufacturer Roxtec has completed supplying a major project refurbishing one of the most advanced gas testing laboratories in the world for oil and gas giant Total.
Roxtec’s UK managing director Graham O’Hare said the Swedish owned firm has worked with Total E&P on the multi million pound refurbishment of a laboratory at the 220 acre St Fergus Gas Terminal based 60 miles north of Aberdeen. The terminal receives natural gas from 20 North Sea fields, which supply up to 30 per cent of the UK’s gas. The terminal’s laboratory facility tests and monitors the various gases coming through the pipeline.
Mr O’Hare said Roxtec has supplied special multi cable transit seals to the laboratory with each transit protecting up to 10 power or data cables.
“This was a tremendous deal to work on which managed to combine our experience in both the oil and gas industry and the specialised laboratory sector,” he said. “The seals will protect the cables at the point they enter the laboratory from a range of hazards including flooding, fire and explosion. This plays a key role in protecting the safety of the building, its assets and critically the people working in the laboratory in case of accident. Moreover the seals ensure that the services entering the laboratory structure are properly airtight and sealed. Roxtec’s transits and seals are a key component in maintaining both the EEx conformity of the process areas in the laboratory and the buildings safety case requirement of a gas tight seal of both negative and positive pressure environments.”
For further details on Roxtec’s seals contact graham.ohare@uk.roxtec.com Tel: 0161 761 5280 Visit: www.roxtec.com