About

» We are a small, efficient process engineering consulting company specializing in natural gas processing, oil & gas production, and oil & gas transportation.

SERVICES:

  • Conceptual Studies
  • Project Engineering
  • Capacity and Debottlenecking Studies
  • Process Optimization
  • Process Safety Management (PSM)
  • Pipeline Simulation and System Optimization
  • Fractionation Consulting
  • Heat Transfer Consulting

» Our fractionation consultant has over thirty-five (35) years of column design, simulation, and troubleshooting experience.

» Our heat transfer consultant has thirty (30) years of heat exchanger and fired heater design and troubleshooting experience

EXPERIENCE:

On-shore and Off-shore

  • Natural gas plants
  • C2 recovery
  • C3 recovery
  • Dew point control
  • Nitrogen rejection
  • Helium recovery
  • NGL fractionation
  • Gas and product treating systems
  • Amine units
  • Glycol units
  • Molecular sieve dehydration
  • Membrane units
  • Caustic systems
  • Oil & gas gathering and production systems
  • Off-shore drilling and production platforms
  • FPSO topsides
  • Oil & gas pipelines
  • Compressor and pumpingstations
  • Product storage terminals
  • Emerging technologies
  • Compressed natural gas(CNG)
  • Gas-to-liquids (GTL)
  • Process Safety
  • Processs hazards analysis
  • Flare and relief studies
» We have also been called upon to provide refining and fractionation consulting services for:

  • Crude units
  • Vacuum units
  • FCC main fractionators
  • Coker fractionators
  • Alkylation units (sulfuric)
  • Butamer units
  • Petrochemicals plants
» We have a very diverse background in the design, simulation, rating, and troubleshooting of the following equipment:

  • Distillation Columns/Fractionators
  • Compressors: Centrifugal, Reciprocating, Screw
  • Turbo-expanders
  • Heat Exchangers:Plate-Fin, Shell & Tube, Double-pipe, AirCoolers, Fired Heaters
  • Pumps: Centrifugal,Positive Displacement
  • Steam and Gas Turbines
  • Reactors
  • Pipelines
  • Process piping
PROFILES:
  • Kent Pennybaker (PDF)
    President, Consulting Process Engineer
  • Tom Ruddy (PDF)
    VP, Consulting Process Engineer
  • Dave Soderstrom (PDF)
    Consulting Process Engineer
  • Reed Knobbe (PDF)
    Consulting Process Engineer
  • Heidi Casper (PDF)
    Consulting Process Engineer
  • Dan Forbes (PDF)
    Fractionation Consultant
  • Robin McGlynn (PDF)
    Heat Transfer Consultant
  • Wendy Berg
    Office Manager
» We use the following process simulation software in conjunction with our own in-house software to assist us in the design and rating of plant processing equipment: