Permian Basin Central Power Plant (Permian Basin, TX)
The Permian Basin of West Texas is one of the largest and most active oil basins in the United States. Our client has a significant position in the Delaware Basin. The purpose of the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) was to identify the least expensive life cycle cost Central Power Plant and distribution system can be built and operational on the client’s target completion date. The plant would generate power to meet demand from the client’s oil, gas, and water facilities during their scheduled five year build out plan for the field facilities with a back‐up connection to ONCOR’s transmission line.
ASSET’s scope of work in support of this project include:
• Define the project design criteria and basis of design
• Establish power generation technologies that meet plant & system operational power demands and also allow the plant to expand (up to 30 MW) with the system demand
• Evaluate the options to select a technology and configuration that provides the optimal life cycle cost facility that is compliant with the client’s safety and design criteria
• Develop preliminary drawings, lists, and major equipment specs to support the development of a +25%/‐15% cost estimate
Worsham (Permian Basin, TX)
The Permian Basin of West Texas is one of the largest and most active oil basins in the United States. Occidental is the most significant operator in this region. The Occidental assets which include over five million acres and over 12,000 oil and gas wells, infrastructure, and the low cost of extraction in this area provide the basis for them to be competitive even during times of low oil prices.
Occidental continues to invest in their infrastructure in the Permian and in 2015 engaged our client, Dis-Tran Packaged Substations, to engineer, procure and construct (EPC) a new substation serving the Occidental Permian oil field. The new substation includes the design of an incoming 138kV ring bus with two incoming lines and two service positions. The two service positions feed 45MVA transformers that step the voltage down to the 24.9kV distribution voltage. In addition to the new substation design, the project also provides for the distribution feeders to service several new gas compressor stations and service production pumps.
ASSET’s scope of work in support of this project included all of the detailed electrical engineering and design, protection and controls design, ground grid design, fault studies, relay settings as well as the programming of the relays and station monitoring devices.
Birds of Prey (Permian Basin TX)
The Permian Basin of West Texas is one of the largest and most active oil basins in the United States. Occidental is the most significant operator in this region. The Occidental assets which include over five million acres and over 12,000 oil and gas wells, infrastructure, and the low cost of extraction in this area provide the basis for them to be competitive even during times of low oil prices.
Occidental continues to invest in their infrastructure in the Permian and in 2015 engaged our client, Dis-Tran Packaged Substations, to engineer, procure and construct (EPC) a new substation serving the Occidental Permian oil field. The new substation includes the design of an incoming 138kV ring bus with two incoming lines and two service positions. The two service positions feed 45MVA transformers that step the voltage down to the 24.9kV distribution voltage. In addition to the new substation design, the project also provides for the distribution feeders to service several new gas compressor stations and service production pumps.
The ASSET Engineering scope for this project comprised all of the electrical engineering, design, select studies.
Elk Hills (Kern County, CA)
ASSET has supported field expansion projects for CRC over a number of years, with a history of at least ten substation projects that were either new construction, expansion, or upgrades. ASSET performed an evaluation of the 115 kV transmission network as a whole and developed protection settings and settings files for substations as new protective relays were installed as per the ASSET design. ASSET also provided the engineering and design for a new 230kV interconnection with the utility. The new connection included the 26R station consisting of a 230 kV ring bus, two 200/333 MVA autotransformers, and a 115 kV breaker and a half station that centrally connected our broad 115 kV transmission network serving our production fields, CO2 facility, and generation plants.
ASSET Engineering played an essential role in the design, installation, and commissioning of this new 230 kV connection from Pacific Gas & Electric. ASSET became an integral part of the CRC team, successfully collaborating on the overall physical design of the substation, inclusive of the arrangement, and transmission getaways. ASSET provided the engineering, design and specifications for the grounding grid, overhead and underground raceways, cabling, and a prepackaged control building. In addition to the physical design capabilities ASSET brought to the table, ASSET provided the protection and control engineering. This project required extensive protection and control work, incorporating a new redundant protection scheme and control system interface.
California Resources Corporation (CRC) is a publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company and the largest oil and gas producer in California. The Elk Hills operations include gas processing facilities with a combined capacity of 540 million cubic feet of gas per day and the Elk Hills Power Plant, a 550-megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired, combined-cycle plant that supplies electricity and steam to the Elk Hills Field. Excess power is sent to the California electric grid.
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