
GAS PROCESSING
The following projects were carried out from concept through to commissioning, working closely with operations to expedite completion.
Apache Canada Ltd.
Consort
Design and Project Management of the installation of two 708 x 103 m3/d (25 MMscfd) refrige units at an existing facility. This project included upgrades to inlet separation, compression, major electrical systems, controls, utilities and LPG storage.
Apache Canada Ltd.
Lonepine West
Design and Project Management of the installation of a 708 x 103 m3/d (MMscfd) grassroots refrige plant in a landowner sensitive area. This project included significant noise abatement measures.
EnCana Corp.
Wild River
Design and Project Management of the installation of a 708 x 103 m3/d (25 MMscfd) refrige plant, compression and NGL storage.
Turbo Expansion Refrigeration
Rio Alto Exploration
Edson West
Replaced Expander wheel to increase capacity to 1,133 x 103 m3/d (40 MMscfd).
Apache Canada Ltd.
Leafland
Process optimization and troubleshooting on cryogenic plant.
Absorbtion
Rio Alto Exploration
Edson West
Added a third molecular sieve bed upstream of a cryogenic expander plant and updated control system to increase plant capacity to 1,133 x 103 m3/d (40 MMscfd).
Canadian Hunter Exploration
South Wapiti
Added a fifth bed to each of two parallel four-bed silica gel hydrocarbon recovery plants to increase overall plant capacity from 850 x 103 m3 to 11,330 x 103 m3/d (300 to 400 MMscfd).
Choke Refirgeration
Rio Alto Exploration
Resthaven
Design and installation of 510 x 103 m3/d (18 MMscfd) choke plant.
Sweetening
Monterey Exploration
Groundbirch
Design and regulatory of a 793 x 103 m3/d (28 MMscfd) gas conditioning plant with 2506 kW (3360 HP) compression, 190 LPM (50 GPM) MDEA (Ucarsol), amine sweetening, 986 kW (280 T) Mechanical Refrigeration, NGL storage and incineration.
Duvernay Oil Corp.
Sundown
Initially installed H2S scavenging system to prove reserves which was replaced with 141 LPM (37 GPM) MDEA (Ucarsol) amine sweetening, 1,119 kw (1,500 HP) compression, dehydration and incineration.
Duvernay Oil Corp.
Brassey
Design and installation of two process trains, 380 LPM (100 GPM) MDEA (Ucarsol) amine sweetening, having total capacity of 566 x 103 m3/d (20 MMscfd), 2,237 kw (3,000 HP) compression, 247 kw (70 T) Mechanical Refrigeration.
Highlights:
Duvernay Oil Corp.
Groundbirch Montney Gas Plant
-2,124 x 103 m3/d (75 MMscfd) capacity
-563 kW (160 tons) of refrigeration
-48 m3/d (300 bbl/d) liquids production
fractionation and storage.
-9,694 kW (13,000 HP) total compression
Duvernay Oil Corp.
Cecilia
-2,832 x 103 m3/d (100 MMscfd) capacity
-238 m3/d (1,500 bbl/d) liquids production fractionation & storage
-985 kW (280 tons) of refrigeration
-3,355 kW (4,500 HP) total compression

