Transformer oil case stories

The partnership between Nynas and Jordan’s National Electric Power Company goes back to the 1970s. Some of the company’s transformers are still running on the Nynas oil used to fill them up almost 40 years ago – with maintained performance.

For more than two decades, Wilson Transformer Company has been working with Nynas to provide top performing transformer solutions to customers in Australia and around the world.

Operating 72,000 km of high voltage electricity lines is no small task, and high-quality transformer oils are vital for success.

Hyosung, the Korean maker of power transformers, finds naphthenics to be the key to stability, reliability and the global market.

With its global network, Nynas meets the strict requirements that the transformer manufacturer Končar Power Transformers Ltd has for reliable deliveries all over the world.

Vasile's transformer customers in Argentina's chilly and electricity-hungry south know well the cold-climate benefits of Nynas naphthenic oils.

Technological advances have made it possible to pump oil and gas from offshore fields once considered too difficult or remote to be developed. This requires high-capacity equipment that is powered by specialised subsea transformers, which in turn depend on Nynas’ insulating oils.

Voltage spikes of up to 1.8 million volts streak across the test room in a millionth of a second. The source is an impulse generator and the location is the Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen Research Centre in Regensburg, Germany.

Ukrainian transformer manufacturer ZTR boasts clients from all over the world; some of which are at altitudes of up to two kilometres.

Standing off the Belgian coast is a unique wind farm called Belwind. It lies farther offshore and sits in deeper waters than any other in existence.