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 PROFILES:
  • Kent Pennybaker (PDF) - President, Consulting Process Engineer
  • Scott Wolverton (PDF) - Vice-President, Consulting Process Engineer
  • Tom Ruddy (PDF) - Consulting Process Engineer
  • Dan Forbes (PDF) - Fractionation Consultant
  • Robin McGlynn (PDF) - Heat Transfer Consultant
» 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 (30) years of column design, simulation, and troubleshooting experience.

» Our heat transfer consultant has twenty-five (25) 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 pumping stations
  •  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, Air Coolers, Fired Heaters
  •  Pumps: Centrifugal, Positive Displacement
  •  Steam and Gas Turbines
  •  Reactors
  •  Pipelines
  •  Process piping
 

» 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:

 

 

 

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