Major project management from strategic planning, engineering, pre-construction organization and planning with landowners, regulators, vendors, and contractors (including bidding and contracting), to project execution, commissioning, and turnover to operations.
- Strategic planning for larger projects that reduced the expected costs for construction and operations.
- Environmental planning and controls for risk, emissions, and waste.
- Innovative process equipment designs when what was standard was not enough. One example is customized separators that also combined stabilizing for condensate to save cost and space without adding emissions.
- World-class facilities and pipelines that were basin ROI leaders.
- Culture changing to streamline cooperation among management, engineering, geophysics, environmental, safety, and field personnel—resulting in higher safety, cost savings and efficiency.
- Simplified equipment designs where possible. Equipment should be easy to operate, install, repair, and clean.
- Assisting negotiations with regulators, landowners, mineral owners, and other stakeholders in facilities and pipelines.
- Process modeling with BRE ProMax software.
- Modular and standardized designs and approaches to both facilities and pipelines. This greatly lowers costs by improving competitive bidding, inventory control, safety, and quality inspections.
- High efficiency wellsite facilities with separation, stabilization, vapor recovery, tankage, and enclosed flares.
- Disposal/Injection facilities and water pipelines for both fracturing and produced water. These may include water processing for additional use rather than injection.
- Midstream facilities for compression, dehydration, sweetening, and processing.
- Facility site selection and route planning for pipelines to reduce cost, erosion, and risk to and from landowners.
- Innovative pipeline designs and materials to improve ROI by reducing maintenance, risk, installation, procurement, and other costs. These may include composite materials or various steels as needed to fit specific challenges.
- Turnaround planning and methods for midstream and refining facilities.
- BRE ProMax process modeling (when clients provide access to ProMax) for:
- Efficient designs
- Trouble-shooting of facilities
- Hydrate control
- Emission control and calculations
- Line sizing
- Many other questions
- Improved automation and SCADA reporting.
- Management of contract engineers to control scope, costs, and time.
- Construction inspection and general oversight of construction costs and timing.
- Operational handbooks (facilities and pipelines) that permit both new empolyee training and regular audits of safety and operational practices.
- Training of new engineers. Safety and efficiency are stressed, as well as code compliance, risk reduction, and operational expertise.
- Operations personnel training. This is heavy on safety and efficiency as well as information utilization.
- Management training. This may involve a large number of challenges from organization, information processing, personnel training, to wisdom and records retention.
- Improving and standardizing parts, designs, and construction methods to allow cost savings through competitive bidding.
- Standardized parts specifications in handbooks for procurement controls.
- Procurement bidding and contract support for both vendors and contractors.
- Hydrate control designs, methods, and practices.
- Flow-back controls for erosion, sand separation, and safety improvements.
- Noise controls.
- Site security and monitoring.
- Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) services for facilities and pipelines.
- Safety management audits and documentation (including PSM for plants).
- Forensic analaysis of failures.
- Risk controls and reduction.
- Corrosion and erosion analysis for various concerns and locations.
- Debottlenecking equipment & pipelines that are holding back production.
- Sludge control methods for tankage.
- H2S controls and sweetening methods.
- Simplified wellsite condensate stabilizers that may combine separator and stabilizer designs together.
- Improved documentation and compliance.