Delivering Technical Solutions Since 1992
Whether the need is for a front-end study, a revamp project, a new process unit design, a utility upgrade or a wastewater treatment plant, Valdes has the experience to deliver your project safely, on time, within budget, and in a controlled manner.
Alkylation
Asphalt Production & Handling
Bottoms Upgrading
Chemical Units
Coke Production, Handling & Calcining
Compression
Compressor Stations
Crude & Vacuum Units
Firewater & Fire Protection Systems
Hydrocracking
Hydrogen Plants
Hydroprocessing
Light Ends Processing
Liquid Hydrocarbon Pipelines (including Surge Analysis)
Natural Gas Facilities
Natural Gas Pipelines
Oil Pipelines
Pressure Filtration
Product Blending & Metering
Reforming
Relief Systems & Flares
Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)
Separators / Scrubbers
Sulfur Recovery
Tank Farms
Terminals
Utility Systems
Vacuum Filtration
Vapor Recovery
Water & Waste Treatment
A refining client wanted to inspect the conditions of two stacks on site prior to a turnaround to determine if there would be a need to add unplanned ...
Leading up to a turnaround (TAR), a refinery client needed to validate the venting design for various tanks. The client’s schedule was aggressive to...
A client in the Oil & Gas industry has a large underground storage of natural gas. Due to the storage area's close proximity to aboveground storage ta...
A midstream client is preparing to transition its fuel storage facility from crude oil to renewable fuels over the next four years and needed the abil...
A large refining client needed to modify their carbon monoxide (CO) boiler soot blowers to improve the fluid cracking process (FCC) unit’s reliabili...
A large refinery needed various equipment replaced sooner than expected due to corrosion. For each of the replacement projects, there was an increasin...
A large refinery client had a Cooling Water Tower (CWT) that was at end of life. The CWT needed to be rebuilt to maintain its original performance and...
The fuel gas system at a large refinery had experienced numerous problems with leakage and fouling with sludge. A reliability team of experts identifi...
A refinery-wide flare study revealed a substantial deficiency in the capacity of a knock out drum in one of our client’s units. Without sufficient c...
A refinery owner required additional hydrogen to comply with federal specifications to process low sulfur diesel fuel. The refinery owner and a gas su...
A large refinery client was in need of a team with the capabilities to execute a fast track project to debottleneck the refinery during gasoline seaso...
A refinery client needed to load and unload an increasing volume of high paraffin content crude oil from their terminal to meet demand for the product...
A natural gas liquids (NGL) client needed to upgrade their existing isomerization unit and increase its capacity from 6,000 to 9,000 bpd. This project...
A refinery client needed design support to reroute eighteen (18) pipe runs that were laid underneath 127th Street. They needed to find a solution that...
A natural gas storage facility client had an existing Stretford Processing System for sulfur recovery at its storage facility that was aging and requi...
A major supplier of natural gas needed to install a 5,000HP natural gas compressor and required assistance in the design, layout and implementation of...
