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OMAN : GlassPoint Solar wins MENA oil field contract
Publish Date : 10-Aug-2011
GlassPoint Solar wins its first MENA contract, with Oman\'s 60% government-owned partnership with the Shell Group, Petroleum Development Oman. GlassPoint Solar\'s solar technology will help to extract the last few drops of oil from oil fields, replacing natural gas.
The technology is a huge advance, protecting the moving parts of the solar system from dirt, dust, sand, and humidity, extending the life and lowering the cost of depreciating equipment. The proposed installation in Oman will be in a glasshouse structure like the California installation, enclosing their single transit trough (STT) technology inside the protection of a glasshouse structure, but it will be on a far more gigantic scale.
Twenty seven times larger than the system installed in California, the solar installation in the Sultanate will span more than four acres, and will steadily hiss out 11 tons per hour of super-high pressure steam (at 1,450 psi)at super-hot temperatures at 312˚C – 562˚F.
Dr Syham Bentouati, the Corporate Technology Advisor to Oman\'s government said, GlassPoint\'s solar steam generators have the potential to release valuable natural gas for use in higher-value applications within the Sultanate.
GlassPoint Solar has broken the solar thermal cost barrier, making it possible to produce steam with solar at a lower price than natural gas, by protecting its lightweight sun-tracking reflective mirrors inside a glass building.
