Sea Marconi monitors the strategic electric power networks of the GCC oil Countries

Wednesday February 13th, 2013

Just a few minutes ago, the first samples arrived, taken from the transformers in the Persian Gulf, thanks to the three-year agreement signed between Sea Marconi and CEGELEC Saudi. The agreement relates to the diagnostic coverage of about 100 pieces of equipment(power transformers, shunt reactors, auxiliary transformers, tap changers, earthing transformers) operating in the GCC Countries: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Arab Emirates Oman.This prestigious task has been allocated to Sea Marconi after an international tender that has seen Sea Marconi prevailing thanks to 45 years of experience collected in the largest private and independent data bank in the sector, the accreditationwith international value, the full compliance with international norms (IEC, CIGRE etc.), the independence with respect to manufacturers of oil and electrical equipment and the use of BAT/BEP proprietary techniques.Thus, Sea Marconi is the exclusive partner for the Life Cycle Management – LCM of the electrical equipment with insulating fluids, fundamental elements for the correct operation of high voltage interconnection networks in the Gulf Countries.

In particular, the services offered provide the analysis and diagnosis (Deosvision) of the insulating oil and the equipment, with the identification of functional or environmental criticalities (i.e. spent thermal life, thermal or electric defects, degradation of the fluid, presence or degradation of additives etc.) and the relevant countermeasures.

Sea Marconi is able to offer a unique specialistic consultancy in the sector, since it implements the most advanced normative state of the art and has an international accreditation reflecting in all the phases in the provision of the service: sampling, analysis of the fluid (and relevant measurement uncertainty), study of the trend, anamnesis, evaluation of signs and symptoms, each time compared with the data stored in the largest worldwide data bank in this field. All this supports the users of electrical equipment fleets for the most correct management of the life cycle management LCM in terms of environmental, technical, economic and social sustainability.