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Career Opportunities...
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Active
Projects...
Some of
our current projects include:
- Mined LPG storage cavern, West Virginia.
- Feasibility studies for strategic natural gas
storage, India.
- Storage well drilling, Texas and Mississippi.
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| Surface facility design and construction services are an integral
part of the total facility package that PB Energy Storage Services
provides. The firm's experience includes over 100 major
hydrocarbon storage facility projects, the most extensive
being the U.S. Strategic Petroleum
Reserve (SPR). The SPR presently includes four salt dome storage sites with a combined capacity of
700
million barrels.
PB also provides regular engineering and construction services
for large and small projects alike to a broad client base of
facility owners and operators. |
Solution Mining Plant
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LPG Railcar Loading Rack
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Surface facilities for underground storage projects typically
include civil/structural works, pump and compressor installations,
piping, pipelines, storage tanks, flow measurement systems,
electrical and control systems, fire protection and plant utility
systems.
A key component in the construction of a solution-mined storage
facility is the leach plant. Major features of a typical leach
plant include:
- fresh water source pumps and piping
- fresh water injection pumps and piping
- brine collection, storage and treatment system
- brine disposal pumps and piping
- electrical power distribution systems
- instrumentation, control and measurement systems
- plant infrastructure systems
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The scope of surface facilities design and construction often
includes the systems and equipment necessary to transport the stored
fluid to and from the storage site, e.g.:
- cross-country pipelines for water, brine, oil or gas
- pipeline pump and compressor stations
- flow measurement and control stations
- gas processing facilities
- on-site systems to receive, inject, withdraw and deliver
stored fluids.
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Filter and Dehydrators
for Natural Gas Storage Facilities
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Natural Gas Injection Compressors
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One typical project involved injection of 150 MMscfd into
and withdrawal 300 MMscfd from two gas storage caverns. This project
included the design and installation of a 6-unit compressor station totaling 16,000 hp.
Another recent project involved the design and construction of
an 8200 hp compression/dehydration station to inject 110 MMscfd of
natural gas into two storage caverns and to withdraw 220 MMscfd for
pipeline delivery. PB Energy Storage Services' surface facility capabilities are often
applied to projects which do not involve underground storage.
One such unique undertaking was the relocation of the U.S. Navy's
Pacific Fleet fueling facility in California. This job involved the
design and construction supervision for facilities to store and distribute
marine and aviation fuels to navy vessels and
tankers.
The project included pipelines with ship channel crossings, a tank farm complete with product
recovery and ballast treatment systems and a marine fueling terminal
with all related systems and equipment.
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Links to example lists of leach
plants, stations and terminals and pipelines
developed by PB Energy Storage Services.
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Piping at an SPR Crude Oil Storage Site
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