Gas, Oil & Chemicals Services
Black & Veatch is a world leader in all aspects of natural gas processing –
from gas treating and sulfur recovery to NGL recovery and fractionation to LNG.
For more than 85 years, our Gas, Oil & Chemicals business, formerly The Pritchard
Corporation, has provided quality design, engineering, procurement and construction
(EPC) services, delivering to our clients safe and reliable facilities.
From feasibility studies to plant startup, the value you gain with Black & Veatch
is significant. Drawing on our broad and deep expertise, you can reduce your plant
life-cycle costs while gaining greater operating flexibility. If you are looking
for complete performance that delivers process design creativity, price and schedule
certainty as well as long-term value for your project, one company brings it all
together, Black & Veatch.
Our process expertise extends to every aspect of natural gas processing:
- Inlet Separation
- Condensate Stabilization
- Acid Gas Removal (chemical/physical solvents, membranes)
- Dehydration (glycol and solid bed)
- Sulfur Recovery (see below for more details)
- NGL Recovery (high ethane/propane recovery designs along with our patented PRO-MAX
technology)
- NGL Fractionation (high efficiency designs and creative revamp solutions)
- High CO2/Enhanced Oil Recovery (including low temperature CO2 fractionation)
- Natural Gas Liquefaction (see below for more details)
In sulfur recovery, the goal is always more – broader processing capability, greater
unit efficiency and maximum on-stream time. From our people to our processes to
our technologies, Black & Veatch delivers more, at every level:
- Lowest Life Cycle-Cost Facility
- Highest Operating Reliability
- Greatest Operating Flexibility
- Proven Process Performance
- Excellent Operating Plant References
- Ongoing Technical Support
Black & Veatch’s Gas, Oil & Chemicals (GOC) business is a world leader in
the design and construction of sulfur recovery units and related management facilities,
backed by a reputation for delivering long-term value to clients. Our design-to-construction
experience covers the complete range of sulfur recovery applications, including
gas/liquid treating systems, sour water strippers, and flue gas desulfurization
units. Total sulfur production of Black & Veatch-designed units now exceeds
40,000 ltpd. From conceptual process design to optimum selection and configuration,
we excel in developing process design packages that incorporate the best-fit technology
to meet our clients’ needs. Black & Veatch technology offerings include Conventional
Claus Units, CBA Units, BP Amoco Tail gas treating, Cansolv units, MAGG Degas units,
SWS.
Black & Veatch is a world leader in all aspects of natural gas processing –
from gas treating and sulfur recovery to NGL recovery and fractionation to LNG. Our
Gas, Oil & Chemicals business, formerly The Pritchard Corporation, provides
quality design, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services, delivering
to our clients safe and reliable facilities.
With Black & Veatch, you tap into project experience that ranges from 4 MM scfd
to over 180 MM scfd, in both domestic and foreign locations. Our PRICO LNG process
technology is ideal for producing LNG for peak shaving, vehicle fuel supply and
gas distribution systems.
Advantages of our PRICO LNG Process:
- Economy – The Lowest Capital Cost of All Competing Technologies
- Simplicity – Single Refrigeration System Needs Minimum Number of Equipment Iitems,
and has a Simplified Control System
- Flexibility – Permits Variation in Feed Gas Composition and Conditions, as well
as LNG Product
- Ease of Operation – Allows for Rapid Startup and Shutdown, and has Minimum Downtime
- Reliability – Proven Operation; Needs Fewer Operating Personnel
LNG import terminals are the link between the world’s natural gas reserves and the
growing need for economical and environmentally friendly energy. It is a link that
Black & Veatch has been building and strengthening since our involvement in
the first LNG terminal built in Korea. An industry pioneer, Black & Veatch was
also involved in one of the world’s first LNG facilities, in Algeria in the early
1960s. Since then, we have helped design and build numerous LNG related facilities.
Our technical and mechanical design expertise encompasses:
- LNG Storage Tanks
- LNG Unloading Systems
- Low Temperature Equipment and Materials
- Heat exchange equipment
- Low Temperature Instrumentation
- Low Temperature Insulation
- Cryogenic Piping
- LNG Pumping
- Boil-off Gas Systems
With Black & Veatch, you tap into direct experience gained from more than 14
terminal projects, ranging from 100 MM scfd sendout to over 2 BCFD sendout.
Black & Veatch is a Company of Firsts:
- First LNG Terminal in Korea
- First Terminal Integrating LNG Vaporization and Power Generation
- First Offshore LNG Terminal Design for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico
- First Terminal to get Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC) Permit in the
United States, Under Latest Regulations
Black & Veatch has been active in gasification since 1980. Black & Veatch
has experience in the conceptual design and assessment of a wide variety of coal,
petroleum coke, and residual oil gasification processes including production of
hydrogen, Fisher-Tropsch transportation fuels, methanol, ammonia, steam, and electricity.
Black & Veatch engineered and constructed the Coffeyville Coke Gasification
to Fertilizer Plant. Our gasification technology experience, combined with our extensive
engineering background in syngas processing, sulfur recovery, power generation and
material handling uniquely positions us to deliver:
- Objective Advice and Superior Consulting Services for Up¬front Analysis, Screening
and Project Planning
- World-Class Capabilities to Effectively Integrate Complex Process Configurations
Including Multiple Products
Our record covers technology assessments, feasibility studies, independent assessments,
technical advisory services, project designs and EPC for more than 30 gasification
clients, using various gasification technologies.
A biorefinery is a facility that integrates biomass (including cellulose materials)
conversion processes and equipment to produce fuels, power and chemicals from biomass.
The Black & Veatch biorefinery concept is based on a thermochemical conversion
platform and focuses on the gasification of biomass feedstocks and the catalytic
conversion of the syngas to high value products.
The biorefinery concept is analogous to today's petroleum refineries, which produce
multiple fuels and products from petroleum. However, biomass (examples are switchgrass
and corn stover) is renewable and better for the environment and national security
interests.
Black & Veatch’s biogasification program is developing and implementing a number
of processes to create items such as ethanol, methanol, syngas (low Btu fuel gas),
heat and power, synthetic natural gas, ammonia, fertilizer, hydrogen and mixed alcohols.