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S-Con Inc. (S-Con), based in Bryan, Texas, is a full-service engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction company. Green Smith, having spent almost 20 years prior in the industry, founded S-Con in 1990 to target the natural gas treating and processing industry.

Trey Brown, current vice president of engineering and construction at S-Con, explains the company has evolved over its history to become a one-stop solution for the natural gas industry. When initially founded, S-Con catered to refurbishing and relocating existing natural gas plants. By 2003 shop fabrication services were added to S-Con’s array of services to increase quality control and additional control over skid package fabrication and deliveries.

S-Con – with 100,000 square feet of office, shop and warehouse space, as well as a new state-of-the-art paint facility – is now able to meet many needs. These include the removal of acid gas components in an amine gas treating process or recovery of natural gas liquids (NGL) or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in refrigerated, JT or cryogenic gas processing plants.

“We’ve more than doubled in size over the last three years,” says Brown. “It’s been a little challenging as of late with some of the new government regulations and ongoing uncertainty, but generally S-Con has grown and become much more prominent in the industry.”

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S-Con's W.G. "Trey" Brown introduced the new patent-pending SUPERCOOL process to the Oil & Gas Industry at the annual Gas Processors Association (GPA) Convention in San Antonio, Texas. While S-Con has been discussing the SUPERCOOL technology with various Producers and Midstream companies since its beginning in June of 2012, this presentation was the first time SUPERCOOL had been presented to a mass audience. Appearing before a crowd estimated to be over 400 strong, Mr. Brown described what SUPERCOOL is and how and why it was developed. According to Mr. Brown, the amount of stranded and flared gas from the various shale-gas plays across the United States has reached astronomic levels and could very well lead to the shutdown of oil and gas production if the amount of flaring is not severely curtailed or eliminated. Mr. Brown also pointed out that the gas currently being flared could be used as an alternative fuel source, either LNG or CNG. Thus, SUPERCOOL was invented as a means to an end; to provide a cost effective alternative that will process and recover 100 percent of flare gas (in liquid form) from any given location and deliver a Y-Grade NGL product stream meeting all pipeline specifications, and a transportation grade LNG and/or pipeline quality gas stream. It was further pointed out that SUPERCOOL also acts as a Nitrogen Rejection Unit (NRU), in order to meet LNG and/or pipeline specifications.

Mr. Brown contends that, by having SUPERCOOL plants across the country, the Consumer will quickly accept and adapt to using LNG/CNG as the fuel of choice. "LNG/CNG is significantly less expensive than either gasoline or diesel and burns cleaner, thus reducing emissions into the atmosphere. If the Consumer is provided with a reliable, inexpensive alternative, they will choose that option every time; the problem has been the supply reliability as the LNG product is often transported anywhere from 250 miles to 800 miles, thus leading to uncertainty in the supply chain." Having local production of the LNG ensures that the supply is always available and will further reduce costs by eliminating or reducing transportation costs.

Click here to read the GPA Paper presented at the April 2013 conference in San Antonio.

• Shot-blast booth large and tall enough to accept the largest, truckable-sized modular skid.
  • Recycled steel grit.
  • Down-draft air filtration system.
  • Automatic opening doors for ease of entry and exit of skids.
• One paint booth large and tall enough to accept the largest, truckable-sized modular skid.
  • Side, down-draft air curtain with filtration system.
  • Heated paint curing system.
  • Dry chemical fire suppression system.
  • Automatic opening doors for ease of entry and exit of skids.
• One, slightly smaller paint booth to accept smaller skids and free-standing equipment.
  • Cross-flow air filtration system.
  • Heated paint curing system.
  • Dry chemical fire suppression system.
  • Automatic opening door for ease of entry and exit of skids.
• Ancillary Equipment for these systems includes:
  • Multiple air compressors with a total of 210-horsepower capacity.
  • Computerized compressor controllers.
  • Refrigerated, air dryer system.
  • Paint mix room with air filters, exhaust and fire suppression systems.