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Canada Hydrocarbon Recovery Ltd.

From feasibility study to start‑up, run from Calgary

CHR provides project management, procurement, optimization and troubleshooting to the oil & gas industry. Our teams come from both sides of the work, design offices and fabrication shops, so designs get built the way they were drawn.

Engineering services

  • Engineering studies & FEED

    Feasibility studies, process configuration and technology selection, through to front-end engineering design.

    • Feasibility & concept studies
    • PFDs and P&IDs
    • Process simulation (AspenTech Engineering Suite, BR&E ProMax)
    • HAZOP facilitation
    • RAM assessments
    • Equipment sizing & selection
  • Engineering & project delivery (EPCM)

    Detailed engineering, procurement and construction management, from the first issued drawings to a facility ready for commissioning.

    • Multi-discipline detailed engineering
    • Well-site facilities, pipelines & gathering systems (sweet/sour, multiphase)
    • Procurement & expediting
    • Vendor package evaluation
    • Construction management
    • Cost control & reporting
  • Owner’s engineer

    Acting for the project owner: reviewing the technical decisions and progress of third-party EPCM or EPC contractors, and advising on key decisions.

    • Design reviews
    • Contractor progress audits
    • Decision support
    • Technical bid evaluation
  • Project health assessment

    An independent third-party review of a project in progress: processes, risk areas and recommended remedies.

    • Process & schedule review
    • Risk identification
    • Remediation plan

Equipment we engineer

Detailed specification, sizing, selection and design of vessels, including the internals for separation, oil treating and tower trays, as well as tanks, piping systems, compressors, pumps, exchangers and packaged skids and modules.

  • Oil facilities

    Free-water knockouts, heater treaters and electrostatic desalters, plus retrofits of existing vessels to improve performance. Processing and storage, custody transfer, water disposal or injection for waterfloods, and the associated vapour recovery.

  • Gas & NGL processing

    Separation, dehydration, dew point control, C2 to C6 fractionation, LPG or condensate recovery, and H₂S and CO₂ removal, including process modelling, simulation and design.

  • Compression

    Reciprocating, rotary screw and centrifugal designs. Gas injection, with extensive experience in acid gas and CO₂ injection systems, well-site boosters and optimization of field gathering boosters.

  • Power generation

    Power generation packages driven by natural gas or diesel reciprocating engines, or by natural gas turbines.

  • Pipelines & gathering

    Well-site facilities and gathering systems, single-phase and multiphase, in sour and sweet service.

  • Packaged equipment

    We specify, evaluate and buy skidded, housed and heated packages through long-standing relationships with packagers in Western Canada and abroad.

    Separation & treating

    • Separator packages
    • Free water knock-outs
    • Heater treaters
    • Electrostatic desalters
    • Produced water de-oiling

    Gas conditioning

    • Dehydration packages
    • Amine plants
    • Refrigeration plants
    • Membrane & PSA units
    • Sulphur recovery

    Heating & utilities

    • Line heaters
    • Flare stack systems
    • Tank & pump packages
    • Pipe modules
    • Large pressure vessels
Gas storage injection and withdrawal compressor packages, 3,400 kW eachOil processing equipmentSilica gel gas dehydration unit, 22 million m³/d (about 780 MMscfd)

Our engineers

Our leadership spent decades in compression and process equipment fabrication shops before engineering whole facilities, and still checks every specification against how the equipment is actually built.

Simulation & safety tools

  • AspenTech Engineering Suite (HYSYS)
  • BR&E ProMax
  • HAZOP facilitation
  • RAM assessment
  • Jeff Saxinger B.Sc., P.Eng. Engineering Director & President, 33+ years
  • Sasa Dzaferovic B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. Process Engineering Manager, 23+ years
  • Rod Stewart CET Oil Facilities Engineering Manager, 55+ years
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