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The Xinjiang Oilfield 600kW electromagnetic heater project supports a newly built oil transfer station in Xinjiang Karamay. The site operates in an outdoor desert oilfield environment with strong wind, sand, snow, and a large seasonal temperature swing. The process medium is water-cut crude oil from multiple production streams, requiring reliable heating before downstream transfer and separation.
XGTHERMAL supplied a skid-mounted explosion-proof electromagnetic induction heating package for crude oil pre-treatment. The equipment is designed to reduce viscosity, mitigate wax-deposition risk, and stabilize the inlet condition of downstream separation processes while supporting unattended station operation through standard industrial communication.
Public Disclosure Note: this case keeps the engineering logic visible while avoiding unnecessary internal operating parameters from the project data sheet.
The oil transfer station needed a compact heating system that could handle variable crude properties and harsh outdoor exposure without compromising hazardous-area safety.
XGTHERMAL delivered an integrated skid-mounted explosion-proof electromagnetic induction heating package with low-surface-load design, staged protection, and industrial communication.
For crude oil transfer stations in cold regions, the heating task is not simply to add power. The heater must deliver enough heat to reduce viscosity and support flow assurance while avoiding excessive local surface temperature that may accelerate fouling, coking, or asphaltene deposition.
The selected explosion-proof electromagnetic induction route allows the process medium to be heated through an isolated heat-transfer structure. Compared with field-assembled heating loops, the skid-mounted package gives the project team a more predictable installation boundary and a cleaner commissioning path.
The heating body, skid piping, valves, instruments, explosion-proof control cabinet, insulation, winterization interfaces, and electrical connection details are integrated before delivery. On site, the station team mainly connects process flanges, power supply, and communication interfaces.
This approach reduces scattered field work in a desert environment and helps the owner shorten installation and commissioning time. The design also reserves bypass and maintenance access so that heater inspection can be planned with less disturbance to the main production process.
The system uses PLC-based control and SCR stepless power regulation to match heating output with outlet-temperature demand. Temperature, pressure, flow, leakage, electrical status, and shell-temperature signals are used by the protection logic, and a protected shutdown requires manual reset before restart.
Through MODBUS-RTU communication, operating data, alarm status, and remote monitoring signals can be connected to the station DCS/SCADA environment. This supports unattended operation while keeping local HMI control available for inspection, commissioning, and maintenance.
After commissioning, the package supports stable heating of water-cut crude oil, reduces viscosity-related flow problems, and helps stabilize downstream separation feed conditions. The high-efficiency electric heating route and integrated skid design also reduce the routine workload normally associated with dispersed heating infrastructure.
The same design logic can be applied to oil transfer stations, gathering stations, crude oil pre-treatment, anti-wax flow assurance, and oil-gas-water mixed media heating in other cold or remote oilfield environments.
A directly relevant product family for high-safety crude oil gathering, transfer-station heating, and hazardous-area electromagnetic heating duty.
