Shell Canada Sour Gas Plant

Historic Project: Groundbreaking Work From Earlier in Fluor’s History

Client: Shell Canada Resources Ltd.

Location: Edson, Alberta, Canada

Business Segment: Energy Solutions

Industry: Fuels

Map showing the location of Shell Canada Sour Gas Plant

Executive Summary

Shell Canada contracted Fluor for engineering, procurement and construction management services of a grassroots gas treating facility. The facility would process 50 million standard cubic feet per day of sour gas. In addition, approximately 250 barrels per day of stabilized condensate and 150 LTD of sulfur would be processed.

Client's Challenge

Due to the facility's remote location, a combination of electric motors and steam turbines were incorporated into the design, along with emergency power generation, to enable the plant to operate at design capacity during a power outage. To accommodate varying sales gas demand, the plant was designed to operate with a turndown capacity of 30% of inlet gas.

Fluor's Solution

Our responsibilities included the engineering, procurement and construction management of this facility as well as start-up assistance. To expedite the site work in northwest Alberta, we subcontracted construction of the facility to Alberta-based contractors.

The work performed by Fluor included inlet separation, stabilization, produced water handling, sulfinol treating, dew point control, sulfur recovery and associated utilities.