33 Years and Going Strong!

Since 1980 Precision has built its business by designing and building gas processing plants, chemical and processing plant components, and skid packaged equipment including, tanks, HRSG, boilers, re-boilers, compressors, separators, heat exchangers, filtration systems, dehydration, and dew point control for natural gas processing facilities. Precision has also built several catalytic reactors for specialized applications, slug catchers, pulsation bottles, scrubbers, oxygen service vessels, flow meters, gas valve trains, accumulators, and complete skid packages.

Precision provides it’s customers with consulting, design, engineering, and ASME calculations. Precision can also provide in shop and mobile ASME vessel repairs and rerates, hydro testing, machining, welding (including ASME “R” stamped repairs, inspection services including borescope video inspection.

Most importantly, Precision is commercially distinguished as a business that offers it’s clients much more than a typical fabrication and welding shop.  Precision has built a reputation and is known to provide resources and knowhow for sustainable advantages in technology and project development. Precision uses it’s decades of experience and knowhow to offer value added solutions to our clients projects and fabrication needs.  This often saves time and money on projects and prototyping that bring long term value to our clients.

In 2013, Precision will continue our 33 year history building processing plants and equipment with a focus on natural gas processing. The biggest difference is our new, state of the art, 40,000 Square foot fabrication facilities. If you have a project and you need an experienced, knowledgable, and well qualified manufacturer please allow us the privilege to provide your company with a competitive quote.

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Natural Gas Processing Equipment

For those of us who have been in the business of supplying the oil and gas industry with ASME pressure vessels, welding, and skid packages we all know the “feast or famine” cliche all too well.  It seems that the feast may be building as well head projects have now turned to midstream to begin production.  After 30 years of the ups and downs in the gas business I’m not surprised to be seeing another dramatic upswing in the demand for process equipment like columns, separators, slug catchers, pots and pans pressure vessels, and compression.  As oil has been settled around $100 a barrel, NGL’s (Natural Gas Liquids) are worth a premium!  What the general public doesn’t know is that the gas boom isn’t really about the methane gas (although changes in public and government sentiment around using coal to produce power is also driving the boom) but it has far more to do with the NGL’s that need to be separated from the natural gas streams.

In the 1980’s we built a good business by providing comparably smaller size Natural Gas plants to individual producers that were running between 50k scf/d and 25mm scf/d. However, the days of small natural gas producers seem to be facing an einvitiable end. Although, we still build an occasional NGL plant  (JT or Refrigeration) it seems that large large single components like re-boilers, separators, columns, towers, and random pressure vessels or heat exchangers are getting much larger in size to handle large scale centralized natural gas processing facilities.  The days of building an entire skid package so a small producer can sell into the pipeline has given way to being a vendor that supplies parts and pieces to a large scale facility.

Currently, we have have on order several towers that have various packing requirements that are all in excess of 4′ X 80′.  We are also building catalytic reactors for the removal of oxygen, slug catches, pulsation bottles, and other various components.  These vessels range in size a weight between a few hundred pounds all the way up 40,000 lbs.  However, the commonality is that it is all for gas production throughout the USA.  This years business activity in gas processing is a stark contrast to last year when we did less than 25% of our business with oil and gas projects.  I welcome the feast as we have always enjoyed working with clients in the Oil and Gas industry.  Like always, Precision Pipe and Vessel is working very hard to meet tight deadlines and get these components into the field in record time.

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Dew Point Processing Plants

Having a market advantage is a huge goal for most companies especially during market down turns.  Often times a company may have such an advantage and not know it, or at least not know how to capitalize on such opportunities.  One market segment that Precision Pipe excels at and enjoys is building Dew Point Processing Plants also know as refrigeration plants, NGL, or Natural Gas Liquids Plants.  What sets Precision Pipe & Vessel aside from our competitors is we have many different approaches to building gas processing equipment that other fabricators don’t consider or offer to their customers.

Our approaches include remanufacturing used equipment in a quality manner giving the appearance the equipment is new (often times it is as good as new).  We also painstakingly examine and inspect each mechanical component to ensure reliability and give estimated time before component overhaul.  We also build complete brand new plants from the skid up.  All of our products are turn key with complete instrumentation and piping interconnect as specified by each customer.  As soon as the plant has been connected to utilities and the associated site piping our systems are ready to be started up and turned over to operations.

Our most recent gas plants have taken yet another approach that provide the longevity  and the associated technology of new and modern Gas Plants yet maintain the cost savings of remanufactured equipment.  Recently we have assembled a plant that used brand new wear components such as a refrigeration compressor, glycol pumps, instrumentation, heat exchangers, and other moving components.  However, we created substantial saving to our client by using ASME pressure vessels and a glycol re-boiler off of used equipment.  We simply identified vessels in our inventory and evaluated condition and specification according to the refrigeration plant.  Next, we transplanted the vessels onto the new skid and re-registered the vessels with the National Board.  This process cut months out of the fabrication schedule and reduced the cost of the plant by nearly 30% for our customer.

When it was all said and done we shipped a modern gas plant to our customer complete with computerized controls and modern instrumentation at a greatly  reduced cost.  We were also informed by our customer that our delivery was several months quicker then the next best offer.  As it stands today the plant has operated for nearly a year with no shut downs and only routine maintenance performed.  This has become a good case study for cutting costs and improving our customers ROI by using creative and alternative fabrication techniques.

Precision Pipe and it’s staff has fabricated nearly 100 NGL plants over the last 30 years that are operating in various locations in North and South America.  We have developed a reputation for finding good quality used equipment, rebuilding our customers antiquated systems, and building brand new equipment to operate in todays modern gas fields.  Precision Pipe

Precision Pipe uses new and used equipment to build great products

is a fully qualified ASME code shop (U,R,S, & NB stamps) that specializes in gas processing equipment, gasification, alternative energy, and product development engineering and fabrication.

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