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Oil & Gas 2 | Oil & Gas | Energy A new era for oil & gas Across the globe, demand for oil and gas continues to grow. At the same time, the industry is realizing it must come to terms with new pricing levels, ever-increasing environmental consciousness, and a shift to producing less carbon intensive forms of energy. Today, companies like yours are focused on sector transition to more flexible, lower carbon the bottom line. Conventional oil and gas generation. Interest in gas monetization developments are seeking to extract maximum opportunities, like gas-to-liquids (GTL) and value out of existing facilities and for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) is strongly gaining investments. They’re looking to reduce capital interest as a transportation fuel. expenditures by shaving down the size of their projects and rolling them out in phases. To thrive in this complex, shifting environment, you need your projects to become leaner, Unconventional sources of supply are also smarter, and simpler. They need to be better evolving. Heavy oil, tight oil and gas, oil sands, executed—more quickly and efficiently. That oil shale, waste, and biomass are all being means utilizing strategies and innovations that investigated, pursued, and perfected where the cut capital outlays and operating costs without economic and strategic conditions are right. compromising the integrity of your operation. Hydrocarbons, both oil and gas, are being found You need innovative solutions, in-depth industry in new areas. More pipelines, rail, and marine knowledge, and new technologies that can infrastructure are needed to transport it. reduce capital intensity and your environmental footprint. In short, you need to maximize value. New extraction and production technologies have increased natural gas’s contribution We can help. to the global energy mix, helping the power 3 Upstream Hydrocarbon markets are complex. The long-term health of the oil and gas industry will be determined by how well we adapt and transition into a new era of challenging markets. This means re-evaluating how we explore, extract, Onshore, offshore, and subsea engineering and produce resources sustainably and safely to Offshore real estate is limited and expensive. We satisfy ever-increasing consumption habits, new have to ‘fit’ facilities into a confined space while technology, and evolving regulations. ensuring the facilities keep the people on board As economies grapple with resource constraints, safe and equipment maintainable. Transporting it is imperative that we unlock stranded the fluids from the seabed requires a deep resources by leveraging technology and understanding of fluid flow and operating digitalization. Doing so will be key to reducing philosophy to avoid blocking flowlines through costs, improving safety, and limiting the effect of hydrates. Onshore, our challenges are often to do emissions on the environment. with logistics and remote locations. Equipment must travel by road and fit within very defined The market has its challenges, but these transport envelopes. Multi-train solutions are challenges present massive opportunities and most prevalent. Our knowledge lets us design are in fact catalysts for making real change. Let the most economic and environmentally friendly us help you extract more value from your assets. facilities. Field development planning Production facilities design Whether it’s unlocking the most remote reserves, When it comes to production facilities design, we overcoming the harshest environments, or seek to maximize your operation’s output from commercializing the most marginal of fields, the offset—from well tie-ins, gathering systems, we’ve got the expertise and innovation to field compressor stations, phase separation, gas maximize the value from your development dehydration and sweetening, to produced water opportunity. From reservoir to market, we bring handling and disposal. This also means assisting a fully integrated and customized approach with difficult issues around emulsion breaking tailored to align with your business drivers and and multi-phase flow measurements, as well as project delivery processes. A ‘one-size-fits-all’ installing communication systems that will allow approach is no longer good enough and there you to monitor and control facilities remotely. We is no substitute for in-depth subject matter can help you optimize existing installations and expertise. We deliver the ability to undertake expansions, while analyzing the most cost-effective reservoir uncertainty and lifetime variation arrangements of modifications. analysis, while providing you with process facility design, rotating equipment expertise, screening Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) tools, and cost and bench-marking data, all The right techniques for enhanced oil recovery of which is provided with a clear audit trail for can maximize the amount of oil and gas that decision-making. can be recovered from your assets —and do it more quickly. We have the know-how to deploy technologies for CO2 miscible floods, thermal 4 | Oil & Gas | Energy recovery, water floods, and polymer floods while also helping you to maintain and enhance Our services range from design to operations, reservoir pressure and design artificial lift systems covering everything in between. From conceptual to optimize oil and gas production to the surface, design and mine planning, to mine development, unlocking value and maximizing revenue. bitumen processing and utilities, as well as offsites—we can deliver the full suite of upstream Carbon capture, utilization, oil recovery services. and storage (CCUS) Subsurface engineering and geoscience As we continue on our journey through the global energy transition, CCUS will play a prominent Our specialists in petroleum geology and role in helping oil and gas producers to lower subsurface engineering partner with you their carbon footprint and allow strides to be to enhance the profitability of your oil and made towards a goal of net-zero emissions. gas properties, as well as provide strategic We combine a long history in the design and evaluations regarding long-term asset execution of surface facilities to capture CO2 and management. We can assist you with your field couple that with established EOR experience to development planning, and work with you from utilize and sequester CO2 in both depleted oil initial exploration programs and characterization fields and other geological formations, such as of your resource through recovery scheme deep saline aquifers. selection and implementation. Oil sands, oil shale, and mineable In situ solvent extraction oil recovery Hatch is the owner Nsolv®—an in situ solvent From mining through to ore preparation, extraction technology for the production of hydrotransporting, extraction, tailings, and oil—and has been a significant equity partner. upgrading—responsible development is key to Nsolv® uses less energy and produces 80 the industry’s sustainable development. Efficient percent less greenhouse gas emissions than bitumen recovery, minimization of environmental traditional methods. It uses no water and very impacts, and effective project management and little natural gas in the extraction process and execution strategies are the drivers for growth. produces a better quality oil and a higher return Developers involved in extracting and producing on investment. unconventional oil products need cutting-edge Smart asset support technology to maximize returns and minimize impacts on the ecosystem. Tools such as Combining our digital practice specialists with computational fluid dynamics and finite element our oil and gas expertise gives powerful insight analysis help prove the viability and efficiency of to support your asset. We don’t just monitor our clients’ projects. your asset, we understand it and have the knowledge and experience to improve it. This deep understanding allows you to truly unlock the value of digitization. 5 Midstream Stringent regulations. Increased public scrutiny. Remote production locations. Extreme weather events. The midstream oil and gas business is becoming increasingly complex. Navigating inherent complexities requires big Storage and distribution picture thinking and a willingness to critically From above ground storage tanks to salt caverns, assess all parts of the process in an integrated we have a proven track-record of assessing, fashion—processing, transportation, and storage. planning, designing, and constructing reliable To be successful, the whole industry needs to hydrocarbon storage solutions. We specialize work together to drive profitability and minimize in large oil storage terminals with tank sizes environmental and social impacts, while always ranging up to 500,000 bbl. Our in-house talent maintaining the highest levels of safety. executes all ancillary facilities including the As your partner, we work with you to minimize incoming and outgoing interconnections, meter risks and increase stakeholder value through manifolds, containment areas, and hydraulic efficient project planning, analysis, and execution. and pumping designs. With health, safety, and Leveraging our core expertise, we provide a well- the environmental performance always top thought-out plan that incorporates all aspects of mind, we can help you update existing site of your project—from concept through infrastructure in a safe and robust manner, while to completion. our optimization solutions seek to increase peak fuel demand storage capacity. Hydrocarbon pipelines Gas and oil processing Pipeline networks