Engineering

Project

Grey Owl provides engineering for upstream oil and gas projects from well sites through pipelines, gas plants, oil batteries, metering stations, and all points in between. We design pipelines and process facilities for gas, oil, and water treatment.

  • Conceptual design
  • Feasibility studies
  • Preliminary and detailed design
  • FEED studies
  • Facility turnaround and maintenance support
  • Fast track projects
  • Specifications and operating procedures
  • Procurement

Process

Grey Owl Engineering has extensive experience and capabilities in all aspects of process engineering for upstream oil and gas projects. We utilize a number of engineering simulation and sizing programs, including HYSYS, VMGSim, our proprietary Oil & Gas Applications Suite, and many other software tools.

  • Well tie-ins and gathering systems
  • Oil and gas processing facilities
  • Sour gas processing
  • Dehydration
  • Pumping and compression stations
  • Storage and transportation systems
  • Process optimization and debottlenecking
  • water injection systems
  • Acid gas injection systems
  • Sulphur recovery and management systems
  • Safety systems
  • Flare system design

Mechanical

Grey Owl Engineering is experienced in every aspect of mechanical engineering for upstream oil and gas facilities to all applicable codes (ASME, CSA, API, NACE).

  • Mechanical design
  • Pressure vessel design
  • Pressure piping design
  • Piping stress analysis (CAESAR II)
  • Pumping system analysis and design
  • Equipment specification
  • Material evaluations

Electrical / Instrumentation

Grey Owl Engineering provides comprehensive electrical and instrumentation engineering.

  • Electrical design
  • Process control
  • Power system design
  • Field instrumentation
  • E&I; system integration
  • Supervisory Control Anf Data Acquisition (SCADA) design
  • Distributed Control Systems (DCS) design
  • Shutdown key development
  • Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) programming
  • Human Machine Interface (HMI) configuration
  • Commissioning and testing of equipment
  • Operations Support

Civil / Structural

Grey Owl Engineering is proficient in all aspects of civil and structural engineering related to upstream oil and gas projects and industrial buildings.

  • Foundation design
  • Facility structural engineering
  • Piping system structural design
  • Buildings, equipment and skid structural design
  • Plant and facility civil engineering
  • Site grading, drainage, retention ponds, and berms
  • Geotechnical and foundation engineering
  • Building and foundation design, permits and inspections

Pipeline

Grey Owl Engineering provides services including the design and project management of pipeline systems and related facilities for oil, gas, water and batched products including transmission, storage, tankage, and distribution.

  • Pipeline design, construction management and operation
  • Material selection
  • Pipeline stress analysis (CAESAR II)
  • Hydraulics analysis (Neotec – PIPEFLO, Fekete-FAST Piper)
  • Regulatory assistance and liaison
  • Audit and system performance assessment
  • Pipeline emergency response planning
  • Pipeline system reliability and risk analysis
  • Pipeline pumping & Compression
  • Pipeline protectionÂ