• Project management/owner's engineering
  
• Environmental and permitting support
  
• Front-end and detailed engineering
  
• Procurement
  
• Construction management
  
• Commissioning and start-up support
  
• Operations and maintenance

Our comprehensive range of services provides consistency and high quality in deliverables while reducing costs and interface management requirements.

Example Midstream Focus Areas

• AlphaSimplexTM: a patented process to derive pipeline-ready gas from LNG

  AMEC Paragon's AlphaSimplexTM process reduces the investment required to meet natural gas pipelines' heating value specifications. AlphaSimplexTM extracts salable NGLs from an LNG source to produce natural gas suitable for transportation to market. Compared to other available processes, AlphaSimplexTM offers the following benefits - for both grass-roots projects and retrofits:
  ­ Decreased capital and operating costs
  ­ Decreased gas compression, electric power and fuel requirements
  ­ Simpler operation

• Gas storage in salt caverns

  AMEC Paragon is working with the patent holder on several offshore and onshore projects using the Bishop Process to regasify LNG and store the resulting gas in salt dome caverns, eliminating the need for large LNG storage tanks.

• Subsea LNG pipelines

  AMEC Paragon and ITP (InTerPipe) have developed a pipe-in-pipe design to transport LNG from offshore locations to onshore sites up to 10 kilometers away. The benefits are numerous:
  ­ Lower-cost regasification facility due to onshore location
  ­ Elimination of trestle, breakwater, and dredging costs associated with tanker berthing and uploading
  ­ Minimized environmental risk
  ­ Preservation of scenic coastal areas

• Compressed natural gas transportation

  For small amounts of stranded gas, gas liquefaction may not be economical. To that end, AMEC Paragon is working with Enersea to develop a solution in which a ship will transport highly compressed natural gas to an offloading station, where the gas will be depressurized and loaded into a conventional pipeline

Major components:

• Gas gathering systems in the Amazon rainforest
  
• A cryogenic facility for extracting natural gas liquids (NGLs) from the gas stream
  
• A liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) plant on the Pacific coast
  
• A marine terminal
  
• A subsea cryogenic LPG pipeline that connects the coastal plant to the terminal

Benefits Realized:

• By assisting in development and refinement of the project execution strategy, AMEC Paragon helped to effect needed changes in schedule and contracting structure in order to ensure success/
  
• AMEC Paragon's development of basic designs, preparation of bid packages for multiple EPC contracts, and assistance in selection of equipment providers and construction contractors helped to ensure high-quality, on-schedule contractor performance
  
• AMEC Paragon's design and construction management efforts for the flowlines within the rainforest helped to minimize impacts to the environment and indigenous populations while ensuring gas delivery
  
• AMEC Paragon helped to get the plants on-stream quickly to meet the Peruvian government's contractual requirements by providing commissioning and start-up support for the cryogenic NGL plant and LPG plant.
  
• ITP and AMEC Paragon helped to establish community support by developing an unobtrusive subsea cryogenic LPG pipeline solution rather than a conventional 3-km above-water trestle system.
  
• By providing operator training services, AMEC Paragon helped to establish safe and efficient production operations.