These consist of smaller oil and gas pipelines, compression facilities, small gas plants, conventional oil treating batteries, operation and maintenance projects, additions to existing facilities, change outs/maintenance of components as well as many other activities. There are a always a multitude of small projects implemented by this Business Unit resulting in additional staff requirements.

These projects termed tertiary recovery schemes, are motivated by economic considerations to recover remaining large volumes of oil from nearly depleted reserves which have not been recovered by conventional or secondary means. After waterflooding, tertiary methods such as CO2, miscible floods, polymer floods and other methods have been used to increase oil recovery. Wood Group PSN Calgary has implemented variations of Polymer floods, including Alkaline Surfactant Polymer (ASP) floods which have proven highly successful in many low recovery or depleted reservoirs. We have implemented many of these projects in recent years and have become the “go to” EPCM company for the execution of these projects. Many of these projects lead to enlargement of oil treating batteries to accommodate and process greatly increased volumes of oil, associated gas and water. Additional personnel are required to staff these projects.

Wood Group PSN has completed many projects involving field facilities, pads, pipelines and treating facilities for the recovery of heavy oil by thermal means such as SAGD and CSS. Several new projects have been acquired and there is a significant acquisition of new work in these areas. Additional staffing of all disciplines, project management, project controls and construction management is required in all areas to staff these new projects.

This Business Unit includes all natural gas and natural gas liquids processing facilities and pipelines other than those included in small projects. The projects consist of both Greenfield and Brownfield facilities.
These include, but are not limited to:

• Sweet gas processing: dewpoint control, refrigeration, cryogenic and turbo-expanders, liquids recovery, fractionation and stabilization
• Sour gas processing:
  • Removal of larger concentrations H2S and CO2 using amines, other selective solvents, molecular sieves and membrane separation and sulphur recovery
  • Removal of lower concentrations of H2S by various batch processes such as Iron Sponge, Sulfatreat and many others.
• Auxiliary facilities:
• Reciprocating and centrifugal compression powered by engine/natural gas turbines or electrical power
• Dehydration by TEG or molecular sieves
• Acid gas removal, conditioning and injection to replace sulphur recovery
• Pipelines and Storage:
  • Natural gas delivery pipelines, high vapor pressure (HVP) pipelines
  • NGL pipelines and all associated facilities
  • High pressure, sour high volume natural gas gathering pipelines
  • Gas storage in salt caverns or depleted reservoirs

New and ongoing projects require additional personnel to staff them.

This group provides services by our construction specialists who ensure that the project design is constructed according to the Project Charter. These services include:

• Construction planning, constructability revisions, modularization, contract strategy
• Estimating, cost control, cost reduction initiatives
• Contract management
• HSEQ management
• On site construction supervision, inspection and quality control
• Material control
• Assistance with commissioning and start up
• Shut down planning and maintenance

Newly awarded projects as well as ongoing commitments dictate the need for personnel to staff these requirements

This Business Unit provides contract operations and maintenance support services to our clients. Engineering projects initiated and identified by this service are implemented by our EPCM group. New business has resulted in the requirement for additional employees for this Business Unit.

The Analyzer Unit provides specialized services to refineries, gas/chemical plants and other process industries by evaluation and development in process analysis in advanced process control, process quality control and safety systems. Some of the packaged analytical units supplied are Mass Spectrometics, Gas Chromatographs, Hydrocarbon Analyzers, Flash Point and Freeze Analyzers, Gas Density and Specific Gravity Analyzers, Dissolved Oxygen-Chlorine analyzers among many more.