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Cables for the wellhead, the pipeline and the refinery.
Instrumentation, control, and power cables built to stand up to hydrocarbons, drilling mud, fire and explosive atmospheres, carrying a Kerpen name with more than a century in oil and gas.
100+ YearsKerpen in Oil & Gas
Overview
Oil and gas is one of the toughest places a cable can work. On rigs, well pads, pipelines and refineries it has to carry measurement data, control signals and power while exposed to crude oil, drilling mud, chemicals, heat, salt spray and fire risk, often in hazardous areas where safety cannot be compromised.
Elegar Kerpen builds instrumentation, control, and power cables for upstream, midstream and downstream projects at our Chakan plant in Pune. We bring the Kerpen name, with more than a century in oil and gas cables, and every construction can be adapted to your project specification.
Value chain
Oil and gas moves through three stages, and each one puts a different load on a cable. We supply instrumentation, control, and power cables across all three, so one project can be sourced from one plant.
Exploration and production
Finding new hydrocarbon fields, then developing them and bringing oil and gas to the surface, onshore and offshore.
Cables usedInstrumentation, control, power, fire survival
Transportation and storage
Moving crude oil and natural gas from the field to the refinery and to market, safely and without interruption.
Cables usedInstrumentation, fieldbus, VFD, Multi-layer Sheath (ALNYC)
Refining and petrochemicals
Processing crude oil into fuels and turning feedstocks into chemicals, polymers and plastics.
Cables usedMulti-layer Sheath (ALNYC), thermocouple, fire survival, control
Cable range
The ranges that appear on most oil and gas cable schedules. Each is built to your conductor size, core or pair count, screen, armour and sheath.
Screened pairs and triads for DCS, SIS and IS circuits.
ExploreLead-free barrier sheath that keeps hydrocarbons out.
ExploreMulti-core cables for MCCs, valves and interlocks.
ExploreXLPE armoured LV cables for pumps and motors.
ExploreKeep ESD and fire & gas circuits alive in a fire.
ExploreAccurate temperature signals from furnaces and heaters.
ExploreDigital links between field devices and control.
ExploreScreened cables for pump and compressor drives.
ExploreWhat they face
Oil and gas sites combine chemical, thermal, mechanical and electrical stress in the same cable run. Our constructions are designed around six of them.
Crude, fuels, aromatic solvents, acids and alkalis attack ordinary sheaths and creep into the core. Barrier sheaths and resistant compounds keep them out.
Oil-based drilling fluids swell and crack general-purpose sheaths. Mud-resistant compounds, of the kind specified under NEK TS 606, hold their shape and strength on rigs.
Zone 1 and Zone 2 areas need cables selected to IEC 60079-14, with armour for mechanical protection and blue-sheathed cables to mark intrinsically safe circuits.
Flame-retardant constructions slow fire spread along trays, fire-resistant ones keep safety circuits running, and low-smoke, halogen-free sheaths protect people and equipment.
Drives, motors and power cables run alongside 4–20 mA and fieldbus signals. Twisted pairs with individual and overall screens keep readings accurate.
Desert heat, arctic cold, UV, salt spray, crushing and rodents. Armour and UV-stable, cold-flexible sheaths keep the cable intact for its full design life.
