Natural Gas Processing,
NGL Recovery, Treating, and Transport
You’ll find our work embedded in some of Western Canada’s largest energy projects.
As the world’s cleanest-burning fossil fuel, natural gas use is on the rise. Our expertise in natural gas liquids processing, recovery, treating, and transport extends from wellhead through finished products to distribution. In fact, we’ve already designed the largest fractionation facility in Canada. From one-facility operators to some of the biggest energy companies, our project engineers successfully guide clients from concept to commissioning.
In addition to plant upgrades and expansions, we design processing facilities, pipelines, terminals and critical infrastructure like field facilities to move natural gas liquids.
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Redwater Fractionation Site
This site produces C2, C3, C4 and C5+ spec products. The facility houses three fractionation towers—a de-ethanizer, de-propanizer and de-butanizer—with super fractionation trays and a propane refrigeration system for the de-ethanizer. Included a mole sieve, salt-cavern storage for all products, high-pressure and capacity injection pumps, custody metering, and delivery to rail, truck and pipelines. The facility was built using a complex modular design with 20 process skids and 35 pipe-rack modules.
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Empress Fractionation Facility Expansion
The Empress facility is a straddle plant that extracts Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) from natural gas and fractionates into ethane (C2), Liquefied Petroleum Gas or LPG (C3/C4), and condensate (C5+).
Ethane is sold to Alberta markets via pipeline and condensate via truck loading. The LPG is transported to Sarnia for further fractionation through the Kerrobert pipeline.
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C3+ Bypass Program
The key feature of the C3+ bypass project was to maximize the C3+ throughput of an existing fractionation facility. The project also included receiving additional C3+ product, storing it and feeding it directly to the de-propanizer. Rangeland’s primary role was to maximize the throughput inside the fractionation towers, just downstream of the de-ethanizer of an existing fractionation train.