A Co-Ordination Study Of Protection System For Mala Oil Fields In Block 5a

ABSTRACT

Oil Industry has become the most important part of Sudan Economy and is playing the main role for country incomes. White Nile Petroleum Operating Company (WNPOC) is one of the Oil Operating Companies which has been producing crude oil since 2006; one of its running fields is Mala fields which comprise the following sub fields:

• Mala Main,

• Mala North,

• Mala East and

• Mala South East.

When these fields were commissioned and started-up, there appeared continuous power outages in the Electrical Distribution System. One of the causes of these outages is due to unsatisfactory performance of protective devices.