Hydrocarbon Processing

Through its many years of providing professional services to the oil and gas markets, Merrick’s Renewable Fuels & Energy’s Team is well-versed in hydrocarbon processing. The firm’s work with refining companies such as Conoco, Suncor, and Valero, coupled with work in the gas fields for gas companies such as KN Energy and Burlington Resources has provided core experience and expertise that is available to our clients in this continuously changing industry.

Merrick’s hydrocarbon processing services include:

• In-plant reviews of major processing units and utility systems to identify yield benefits and energy savings.
• Economic analysis, including preliminary cost estimates, to help prioritize opportunities
• Conceptual design packages to determine how best to meet future regulations
• Acting as owner’s representative interfacing with technology suppliers and vendors
• Front-end project development and support and assistance in defining and selecting technologies, technology suppliers, or third party vendors
• Traditional Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) services for projects up to $100 million total installed cost

Project Examples:

Refining
CHS MSAT Benzene Removal Project
Merrick is providing Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) services for a benzene removals project at CHS’s refinery in Laurel, MT. The project is in response to US Mobile Source Air Toxics (MSAT) regulations for removal of benzene from the gasoline pool. Merrick is working closely with the technology licensor and the refinery in the implementation of the project. Additional refining experience includes:

• Sinclair Oil Corporateion Process Simulation and Optimization; Sinclair, WY.pdf
• Total Petroleum HAZOPS Facilitation, PHAs and PSM Support; Arkansas City, KS.pdf
• Sinclair Oil Corporattion Fractionation Systems; Sinclair, WY.pdf

Utility Systems

• Giant Refining Company Steam Systems; Gallup, NM.pdf
• Giant Refining Company Waste Water Treatment; Gallup, NM.pdf
• Total Petroleum Fire Water Systems; Commerce City, CO.pdf

Offsites

• Colorado Refining Company Tank Farms; Commerce City, CO.pdf
• Colorado Refining Company Truck and Rail Loading Facilities; Commerce City, CO.pdf
• Sinclair Oil Corporation Flare Systems; Sinclair, WY.pdf
• Colorado Refining Company Sulfur Plants; Commerce City, CO.pdf
• U.S. Dept. of Energy, Suncor Energy and Giant Refining Vent Gas Recovery; Commerce City, CO & Bloomfield, NM.pdf
• Conoco, Inc. Turnaround Projects; Commerce City, CO.pdf

Gas Processing

• Lost Creek Gathering Company Dew Point Control Facility and Gas Gathering System; Wamsutter, WY.pdf
• Blackwood & Nichols Company Coal Bed Methane Gathering System; Navajo Lake, NM.pdf
• Gas Company of New Mexico Albuquerque Mainline Expansion; Bloomfield, NM.pdf
• North American Resources Company Relocation of Expander Plant; Fort Lupton, CO.pdf
• Evergreen Operating Corporation Gas Gathering and Compression Engineering Design, Procurement, and Construction Management; Raton Basin, CO.pdf