Fracking Sand Transshipment Terminal
Client
|
NST
Transloading Operating Company, LLC |
Completion Date
Current
Contract – start date: September 10, 2014
Project Description
NST Transloading Operating
Company, LLC is adding a fracking sand terminal to its existing facility at
Fairview, North Dakota. The existing
terminal is a 400-acre rail-and-truck transportation hub serving the petroleum
industry. A view of the terminal is seen
below. This facility supports the oil
drilling fields in the Bakken formation, which is one of the largest contiguous
deposits of oil and natural gas in the United States. The formation is an
interbedded sequence of black shale, siltstone and sandstone that underlies
large areas of northwestern North Dakota, northeastern Montana, southern
Saskatchewan and southwestern Manitoba.
The new frac sand part of
the terminal will receive frac sand by rail in covered hopper cars and store
the railcars on a ladder track system. A
terminal’s shuttle engine will move strings of railcars to the system’s rail
hopper. The new frac sand handling
system will unload each railcar, convey to frac sand to a matrix of 2500 ton
storage silos, and load tank style dry bulk trucks. The initial configuration will be a 2 x 3
silo matrix which will be expanded to a 3 x 3 matrix, with a storage capacity
of 22,500 tons (9 silos x 2500 tons/silo).
Development plans are to duplicate this 9-silo matrix of silos on a different
portion of the terminal property.
Energy Associates’ is
providing technical consulting services in support of NST Transloading’s
addition of this fracking sanding terminal.
The initial task was to:
1.
prepare an abbreviated technical specification to conform EPC
contractor bids to a common, quality basis;
2.
review bids for technical conformance; and,
3. in
a series of reports, provide assessments on a wide variety of system design,
performance, and maintainability issues.
The current task is for
the EPC Implementation phase of the work.
Energy Associates is:
1.
Reviewing EPC contractor submittals including drawings,
calculations, and equipment selections;
2.
Attending progress meetings providing input as required; and
3.
Preparing TRFs (Technical Review Forms) to report and assist in
correcting instances where the EPC contractor’s design does not conform to the
Contract.
