S-Con continues to make great progress in its Construction effort to install the 120 MMSCFD Refrigerated J-T Plant. Both S-Con’s Shop Facility and Field Construction crews continue to work diligently to produce and install the Client supplied Balance of Plant design within a very tight completion schedule. S-Con has over 50 people at its Shop Facility dedicated to this one project and over 200 people (S-Con and its subcontractors) at the Construction site. The twenty (20)S-Con Process Skids were shipped from S-Con’s Bryan, Texas Facility over a period of five (5) weeks and have all been set in place, along with numerous pieces of S-Con and Client supplied “ship loose” equipment. When completed, the plant is expected to process up to 120 MMSCFD of inlet gas and recover upwards of 90% of the contained propane.

S-Con completed all of the process skids for the 120 MMSCFD refrigerated J-T Plant this week, and began its shipment to Wyoming.

See pictures of the completed product below:

On March 24, 2014, S-Con was awarded the Construction/Installation of the 120 MMSCFD refrigerated J-T Plant currently being fabricated in S-Con’s Shop in Bryan, Texas.  The Process Plant, consisting of twenty (20) Skids/Modules and various other equipment supplied by the Owner, is to be installed at a Wyoming location, with essentially all Process Equipment installed inside Process Buildings.  To ensure proper fit-up and spacing, S-Con assembled all Process Skids/Modules inside its Assembly Shop, before preparing them for shipment to the Field.  While Field Mobilization will not begin until early April, S-Con and the Owner expect to have the entire Plant up and operating by November 1, 2014.

S-Con’s Trey Brown attended the Bakken/Three Forks Shale Oil Innovation Conference in Grand Forks, ND from February 10-12, where he presented the SUPERCOOL Process as a new and cost effective means of capturing flared gas into salable liquid hydrocarbon products (NGL and LNG) and eliminating emissions into the atmosphere. The presentation was warmly received with numerous questions being asked on how it could best be applied.

S-Con’s Trey Brown and Rick Crooker will be attending the Bakken/Three Forks Oil Innovation Conference & Expo, to be held in Grand Forks, North Dakota February 10-12.  Mr. Brown will be presenting on S-Con’s new SUPERCOOL technology and how it may be used to eliminate flaring of associated gas and, instead, recover 100% of the NGL’s and provide a LNG fuel supply.  When implemented, S-Con believes this technology will represent the MACT/BACT method for eliminating flaring of natural gas into the atmosphere, with essentially no emissions.

Read more about S-Con’s SUPERCOOL Technology here.

Work continues to progress on the detailed design and fabrication of a custom, 120 MMSCFD Refrigerated J-T Plant.  The Plant, when completed, will consist of more than 20 process skids and include a 200-gpm Amine Plant, 3-bed Mol Sieve Plant, the Refrigerated J-T Plant with a De-methanizer/De-ethanizer, the Refrigeration System (using Propylene Refrigerant) and a Hot Oil System to supply necessary process heat.  When finished, S-Con will have designed and fabricated this plant within eight (8) months of being released to proceed.

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.

S-CON has announced plans for the addition of a separate building to consolidate the maintenance of the considerable equipment inventory utilized by both the Bryan fabrication facility and off-site construction crews. This building will help insure all equipment is serviced and maintained in a timely manner to eliminate unexpected down-times.

S-CON is well underway in the construction of a new, corporate office building located at the Bryan, Texas facilities. This new building will house upper management and accounting, leaving the original, three-year old Corporate building available for Engineering, Drafting and Procurement Projects teams.