Process Facility Turnaround Management
A senior member of Valdes Architecture & Engineering staff was retained as a contractor to act as the main Turnaround (TAR) Manager for the planning a...
Oil & Gas
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What We Do
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.
Oil & Gas Project Experience
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
Projects
Asset Integrity Program for Plant & Civil Structures
While production equipment often takes center stage, plant infrastructure—such as platforms, major structures, ladders, walkways, equipment foundati...
PMO Improves Integrity, Reliability & Margins
At a large crude oil refinery, a Program Management Office (PMO) was established to regain control over a backlog of asset integrity, reliability, mai...
Risk Based Inspection & Fitness for Service Assessments to Reduce Leaks
The client aimed to minimize corrosion-related leaks by implementing risk-based inspection (RBI) and fitness-for-service (FFS) assessments on piping s...
Reliability Improvement Program
The client’s objective was to improve profit margins by developing and implementing a targeted reliability program that minimizes downtime and maxim...
Plant Services & Support
A client in the steel industry announced its intention to build an electric arc furnace steelmaking facility onsite. Once the new furnace is completed...
Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Inspection – Oil & Gas
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 ...
Tank Venting Studies For Tank Turnaround
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...
LPG Cavern Study
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...
Portland Terminal Renewable Diesel Conversion
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...
Improve Reliability Of Carbon Monoxide Boiler Soot Blowers
A large refining client needed to modify their carbon monoxide (CO) boiler soot blowers to improve the fluid cracking process (FCC) unit’s reliabili...
Reformer Unit Turnaround Equipment Replacement
A large refinery needed various equipment replaced sooner than expected due to corrosion. For each of the replacement projects, there was an increasin...
Cooling Tower Replacement
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...
Glycol Dehydration Unit (GDU) Fuel Gas Reliability Project
The fuel gas system at a large refinery had experienced numerous problems with leakage and fouling with sludge. A reliability team of experts identifi...
Flare Header & Knock Out Drum Redesign
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...
New Hydrogen (H2) Unit Offsites Installation
A refinery owner required additional hydrogen to comply with federal specifications to process low sulfur diesel fuel. The refinery owner and a gas su...
Installation of New Sour Water Stripper Reboiler System
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...
T-1000 Tank Farm Upgrade
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...
Isomerization Unit Upgrade
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...
Pipe Bridge 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...
Natural Gas Storage Facility Sulfur Removal System
A natural gas storage facility client had an existing Stretford Processing System for sulfur recovery at its storage facility that was aging and requi...
Natural Gas Storage Facility Compressor Replacement
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...
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