AMEC Paragon performed front-end studies and total project planning for the Ohio River Clean Fuels (ORCF) project to produce 50,000 barrels per day of liquid products from Pittsburgh coal. The project team worked with six technology licensors to devise the combination of technologies that could meet ORCF’s goals at minimum cost and also helped the project acquire all permits (air, water, land, and electrical) quickly and cost effectively.

AMEC Paragon performed a feasibility study for a 50,000 bbl/day coal-to-liquids (CTL) development, including an integrated coal gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant coupled with an IGCC power generation capability. The study focused on evaluating several proven CTL technologies to determine the best options for maximizing the client’s opportunities to monetize coal reserves.

AMEC Paragon provided feasibility study services, including technology evaluation and permitting support, for a proposed plant to generate 250,000 tons of methanol per year from a feedstock of about 500,000 tons of coal.

In addition to serving as overall project management contractor for SNCG’s planned US$1.5 billion coal-to-chemical production complex in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China, AMEC performed initial engineering and design for the plant’s offsite and utility facilities.
The facility is being designed to produce 540,000 tonnes of polypropylene per year. It will include a coal gasifier plant, a methanol and methanol-to-propylene unit and a polypropylene unit. Polypropylene is a chemical product usually derived from oil refining and ethylene processing, but the project will use coal as the feedstock, which will come from large reserves in the Ningxia area.

AMEC Paragon provided project management, engineering, and design for three platforms and facilities to produce and treat hot, sour gas in the Gulf of Mexico’s Mobile Bay area.  Facilities included glycol dehydration and sour gas (CO2 and H2S) treating systems.

AMEC Paragon provided project management, engineering, and design/drafting for two new recycle compression facilities for enhanced oil recovery using injected CO2. The Monell facility was designed to handle 7.5 million standard cubic feed per day (MMscfd) of gas, expandable to 75 MMscfd. The Salt Creek facility was designed for 70 MMscfd, expandable to 130 MMscfd.

AMEC Paragon provided engineering and design services for a grass-roots CO2 injection and production facility, including preparation of construction bid packages. Facilities included production separators, gas dehydration systems, injection compressors, injection pumps, storage tanks, a motor control center, and a PLC-based control system.