BROWNFIELD PROJECTS

Equinox Brownfield
Engineering

Equinox Engineering Ltd. is a world class

Projects
provider of EPCM services to the global oil
and gas marketplace.

Founded in 1997, Equinox has successfully

executed over 5,000 significant projects
around the world including North America,
Australasia, Middle East, Europe and Asia.

Equinox has industry leading expertise in

Conceptual and Front End Engineering
Design (FEED), Detailed Engineering Design,
Procurement and Construction Management.

We have extensive experience in brownfield

projects including expansions and
optimizations, debottlenecking, operations
and maintenance engineering, sustaining
capital and Management of Change projects.

Equinox provides brownfield expertise

from our Canadian and Australian offices,
complimented by high value engineering
resources from the Equinox India office.

Equinox Engineering provides world class expertise, technical solutions and

execution strategies for brownfield projects.
Equinox delivers focused and experienced Equinox has successfully executed brownfield projects throughout the world, both
Premium Teams onshore and offshore, within gas plants, oil processing facilities, refineries, upgraders
customized with the best and field facilities.
Technical Expertise
Our experience includes Sustaining Capital programs, Management of Change (MOC)
to align with
programs, debottlenecking, plant expansions and optimizations, facility modifications,
Client Culture plant support, maintenance engineering and annual turnaround support.
to ensure repeatable and
Successful Projects
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Facility Expertise
Equinox has executed well over one thousand brownfield projects within live operating environments to expand, upgrade or
optimize facilities for gas processing, oil production, refineries, upgraders and power generation.

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION

Our experience within SAGD and CSS Central
GAS PROCESSING PLANTS Processing Facilities includes upgrades, optimizations
Equinox is an industry leader in natural gas debottlenecking and sustaining capital projects
processing facilities. Our expertise includes inlet regarding oil treating, diluent recovery, produced
separation, gas sweetening, condensate, liquids water de-oiling, water treatment, steam generation,
removal (refrigeration, cryogenics), mercury removal, evaporators, boilers and power cogeneration.
compression, dehydration, NGL recovery and
fractionation, storage, measurement and transport. This includes many of the largest thermal heavy oil
production facilities in Canada, as well as cyclical
Equinox specializes in sour gas treating. Our steam operations in the Middle East and Asia.
brownfield expertise includes amine sweetening
facilities, CO2 membranes, H2S scavengers, and
biological regeneration as well as acid gas handling
(compression, pipelines and injection).
REFINERY & UPGRADER
This also includes Sulphur Plants, both Claus and
Our experience with brownfield projects within
SuperClaus, and all areas of sour water stripping,
refineries and heavy oil upgrading facilities is
sulphur recovery, tail gas treating, thermal oxidizer,
significant. Our corporate and personnel expertise
sulphur degassing, sulphur storage, forming and
includes crude upgrading and primary separation
loading facilities.
(atmospheric distillation, vacuum Distillation), primary
upgrading (coking, hydro-conversion), secondary
upgrading (hydro-treating, hydro-cracking) as well as
LNG FACILITIES process support units such as the sulphur recovery
Brownfield projects within LNG Liquefaction Plants unit, tail gas treating, hydrogen production unit, etc.
and Loading Terminals and the supply of engineering
personnel to execute plant projects is a key area for
Equinox.

We provide expertise in all phases of the LNG value

chain including upstream facilities, stabilization, gas OIL BATTERY
pre-treatment (CO2, H2S, mercury removal, sulphur Equinox has significant experience in the design and
recovery), refrigeration, liquefaction, storage and installation of oil batteries and satellites, including
loading, etc. light, medium and conventional/heavy oil, sweet
and sour. Our experience with original design as
well as brownfield troubleshooting, debottlenecking,
expansion and optimizing includes inlet separation,
emulsion treating, crude stabilization, multiphase
metering, water treatment, water injection, de-
sanding and sand disposal, custody transfer, truck
loading and rail loading.
Brownfield Capabilities
Equinox Engineering has extensive experience in live operational environments, executing Sustaining Capital and Management of
Change (MOC) programs. Typical projects include troubleshooting, performance testing, capacity optimization, and debottlenecking
on hydrocarbon processing facilities, wellsites, field facilities and related assets. MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE
For large programs of small projects (i.e. MOC programs)
Equinox has a customized workflow program to address
specific client requirements. Equinox understands
SUSTAINING CAPITAL that small operational projects have unique execution
Within central processing facilities, Equinox has a long requirements and cannot be executed as though they
history of successful Sustaining Capital projects to are large Capital projects.
extend lifespan, expand capacity, increase throughput
Our MOC Work Flow program works efficiently
and improve safety of a plant.
to address the fast paced requirements of inplant
Equinox executes Sustaining Capital projects up to $100 maintenance and MOC projects. Working as a team
MM TIC and has worked in many of the largest gas plant with our clients, Equinox will embed personnel onsite to
and oil production facilities in Canada. facilitate project execution.

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DEBOTTLENECKING & OPTIMIZATION

Equinox has worked with numerous clients to increase
production capacities of large facilities, through
modification of existing equipment and removing any
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throughput restrictions.

Our process engineering team regularly delivers Concept

and FEED studies, leading to complete debottlenecking
PLANT EXPANSION
project executions by Equinox for gas processing and oil
Equinox has an extensive history of gas plant expansion production facilities.
projects, as well as oil production facility expansion
projects to increase throughput and plant capacity.

This includes adding complete processing trains to

existing gas plants, as well as adding liquids recovery
(refrigeration, cryogenics) or sour gas processing (amine 3D LASER SCANNING
sweetening) to facilities to accommodate changing
Equinox utilizes 3D Laser Scanning technology to create
feed streams. Within heavy oil facilities, this includes
exceptionally accurate 3D models of operating facilities
expansion of steam generation, water treatment as well
rapidly and cost effectively.
as oil treatment modules.
When as-building older vintage gas plants or oil
batteries, our 3D scanning reduces field time required
to accurately as-build a facility. Compared to traditional,
labour intensive methods, 3D scanning captures digital
information to create a point cloud image to be directly
converted to a 3D model, with great accuracy.
Selected Projects
KAYBOB SOUTH (K3) GAS PLANT EMPRESS STRADDLE PLANT
Debottlenecking & Optimization Management of Change
The K3 Gas Plant (commissioned in 1970) has inlet The Empress NGL Complex (commissioned in 1971) has
capacity of 675 MMscfd and 3,561 t/d of sulphur. inlet capacity of 5.6 bcf (including 75,000 bpd of ethane and
55,000 bpd NGL).
In the past decade, Equinox has executed over fifty
(50) brownfield projects within the facility including Equinox has executed several Sustaining Capital projects,
debottlenecking, upgrades and optimizations including including upgrades to the turbo-expander facility including
Plant Inlet, Amine Sweetening trains, Sulphur Plant, Liquids replacement of process equipment regarding the compressors
Handling, Compression, Metering, as well as maintenance and heat exchangers, coolers, condensers, pumps etc. The
engineering and annual turnaround support. diverse program of projects at Empress includes upgrade,
modification, optimization and debottlenecking projects.

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KAYBOB AMALGAMATED (KA) CHRISTINA LAKE SAGD CPF

Debottlenecking & Optimization Sustaining Capital
The KA Gas Plant (commissioned in 1968) has inlet The Christina Lake Heavy Oil CPF has a production capacity
capacity of 397 MMscfd and 1,100 t/d of sulphur. of 138,000 bpd.

Equinox has executed over thirty (30) Management of Equinox has executed Sustaining Capital projects to upgrade
Change (MOC) and Sustaining Capital projects including compression and cooling modules as well as Management
major plant optimization and debottlenecking studies, of Change (MOC) projects that include upgrade optimization
and upgrades to Plant Inlet, LPG storage and loading, and maintenance of all types of equipment including water
Condensate area, etc. as well as maintenance engineering treatment, steam generation and oil treating facilities, as well
and annual turnaround support. as for DCS / PLC software.

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WEST WHITECOURT (WWC) MINA ABDULLAH REFINERY

Debottlenecking & Optimization Refinery Expansion
The WWC Gas Plant (commissioned in 1961) has inlet The Mina Abdullah facility (commissioned in 1958) owned

capacity of 424 MMscfd and 1,333 t/d of sulphur. by KNPC has a refining capacity of 270,000 bpd. Refined
products include naphtha, kerosene, diesel and gas oil.
Equinox has delivered a major study and evaluation
to reconfigure the entire facility, as well as several other Equinox successfully executed an EPC lump sum ($50 MM

Sustaining Capital projects such as Water Line Upgrade, TIC) brownfield upgrading project within the refinery to design

Glycol Still Emission Control and plant compliance and install Moisture Control and De-hazing facilities for the gas

projects. Equinox has also provided turnaround support oil and diesel products via utilization of Electrostatic Coalescer

and delivered general maintenance engineering support within the operation.

projects.

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 Selected Projects -
Plant Expansions MUSREAU GAS PLANT
Plant Expansion (200 MMscfd)
The Musreau Gas Plant was originally designed and
installed by Equinox as a sweet compression facility with
SIMONETTE GAS PLANT
capacity of 50 MMscfd.
Plant Expansion (150 MMscfd)
Equinox expanded the facility including a liquids recovery
The Simonette Gas Plant was originally a sweet gas
train and amine sweetening plant sized to 200 MMscfd.
plant with inlet capacity of 25 MMscfd. The Equinox
The Phase 2 Expansion included inlet separation, mole
scope included FEED and Detail Design to expand the
sieve dehydration, turbo-expander (17,500 bpd C2+
facility to 150 MMscfd in several phases.
recovery), condensate stabilization (5,900 bpd), three
The Phase 2 Expansion adds 50 MMscfd sweet inlet reciprocating compressors 14,205 hp, two centrifugal
capacity (2 x 25 MMscfd trains) and provides incremental compressors 26,440 hp, amine sweetening as well as
2,700 bpd LPG production and 9,000 bpd stabilized 11.2 MW of power generation.
condensate production.
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In parallel, the Phase 3 Expansion adds 75 MMscfd (3 x
25 MMscfd) sour gas processing capacity and provides
incremental 4,000 bpd LPG production and 13,500 bpd
WASKADA OIL BATTERY
stabilized condensate production.
Associated Gas Plant Expansion
The Waskada Oil Battery was originally designed for
7,000 bpd of oil emulsion.

The Equinox brownfield scope included FEED and

Detail Design for a new sour liquids recovery plant to
DAWSON GAS PLANT accommodate rich, sour associated gas. The process
train included inlet separation, inlet compression, amine
Plant Expansion (120 MMscfd)
sweetening, and refrigeration (to recover 1400 bpd of
The Dawson Gas Plant was originally designed and NGL), NGL storage, flare, incineration, MCC / PLC.
installed by Equinox as a sour plant with capacity of 60
MMscfd. The Equinox plant expansion scope included
FEED and Detail Design to expand the facility to 120
MMscfd.
GLACIER GAS PLANT
The Phase 2 Expansion included inlet separation, inlet Plant Expansion (250 MMscfd)
compression, amine sweetening, refrigeration, liquid
The Glacier Gas Plant was originally a 140 MMscfd sour
fractionation and stabilization, acid gas compression,
gas plant.
acid gas blending, vapour recovery, recycle system &
final sales compression as well as 9.2 MW of power Equinox delivered FEED, Debottlenecking and Detail
generation. Also contains storage for produced water, Design to expand to 250 MMscfd. New equipment
condensate and NGL with truck-out facility. added includes an NGL recovery refrigeration process
as well as a new condensate stabilization process with
supporting utilities and a vapor recovery system. Other
brownfield modifications were made within the inlet
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separation, compression, amine plant, dehydration and
acid gas compression areas.
 Equinox delivers focused and experienced
Premium Teams
customized with the best
Technical Expertise
to align with
Client Culture
to ensure repeatable and
Successful Projects

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