Up Front Engineering is the Key to Successfully Managing Capital Projects
The end of the fiscal year is quickly approaching and capital budget plans for next year are due. Operations, Engineering and Maintenance have ideas of where funds can best be utilized, but day-to-day requirements only allow them to develop rough cost numbers and schedule durations based on “similar” projects from years ago. The project gets [...]
Breaking News: Venture Named No. 1 Fastest-Growing in 2011 by PBT
Venture Engineering & Construction is ranked the Number 1 Fastest-Growing Environmental/Engineering/Energy Company in Pittsburgh for the 2nd year! The Pittsburgh Business Times will be continuing to add information about the awards here.
Marcellus Natural Gas Liquids
In the Western half of the Marcellus Shale Play, more than just methane flows from gas wells. In this region, hydrocarbons known as “natural gas liquids” (NGLs), are also present with the methane extracted from these wells. If harvested, these NGLs can be very valuable co-products of natural gas processing. The price of NGLs typically [...]
Update Regarding PADEP Proposed Treatment Standards for High TDS Wastewaters
The following is an update concerning what framework the PA Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) will propose in a revised TDS regulatory approach. PADEP had proposed a uniform 500 mg/l TDS effluent limit on all new or increased “High-TDS” dischargers. In response to a request for public comments, PADEP received the message that the 500 [...]
What Is Next For Frac Water Treatment
The management of Frac water from development of Marcellus shale wells has been subject to increasing scrutiny. The deeper Utica shale formation is as promising as the Marcellus formation, and will probably have similar management issues. Concerns about frac water include: Nature of constituents added for fracing Salinity of the frac water and impact of [...]
Stimulus Money – Geothermal Energy
Geothermal energy is usually associated with the western states and Yellowstone National Park or “The Geysers” field in Northern California. However, geothermal energy can be utilized just about anywhere in the US and is economical when employed in residential applications in the Northeast. Homeowners who install a qualified geothermal heat pump system in 2009 and [...]
PADEP to Adopt New Treatment Standards for High TDS Wastewaters
In an effort primarily to address the potential impacts from the development of the Marcellus Shale reserves, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (“PADEP”) has announced its intention to adopt new treatment requirements and water quality standards to control total dissolved solids, sulfates and chlorides. According to PADEP, the justification for its new permitting strategy [...]
No Cost Stimulus Plan
Twenty four months. That is the average time it takes to get most major industrial greenfield projects from the concept phase through the permitting process in this country. Twenty four months. Twenty four months of no engineering, no buying of equipment, no fabrication, and no construction. All of which means no jobs. In fact no [...]
SILOXANE REMOVAL SYSTEM — VENTURE ENGINEERING ANNOUNCES NEW OFFERING TO LANDFILL AND DIGESTER GAS CUSTOMERS
Due to significant market demand from our landfill gas and digester gas (biogas) customer base, Venture has designed a completely modularized gas conditioning skid, primarily intended for siloxanes removal, with added gas conditioning benefits as described herein. Venture Engineering’s siloxanes removal system is based on a multitude of practical landfill gas processing experience and was [...]
High BTU Gas Plant — Landfill Gas, Coal Beds, and Digesters…
We get a lot of questions about landfill gas (LFG). What exactly is it? What can you do with it? Can my boiler use it? Do I have to clean it before I can use it? Should I make High BTU gas or Electricity with it? And so on, and so on. The following are [...]