Selected Past Projects
Long Beach Tank Farm Fire Protection Project
Southern California Edison Company, Long Beach, CA
Detailed design of a fire protection system for an oil storage tank farm. The fire protection system included two diesel-driven fire water booster pumps, fire water spray nozzles for the storage tank shells, fixed foam monitors, removable fire and heat protection wall panels, a connection to the City water supply line, and emergency connections of the fire water system to station water system and to sea water pumps at the station sea water intake structure. The project also included raising intermediate dikes between tanks and an extensive elevated walkway system to connect the storage tanks. OEC assisted with the permitting process and coordination with regulating agencies.
Connection Upgrade Project
ARCO Terminal Services Corporation, CA
Project management, engineering, detailed design, construction support and start-up to upgrade 25 pipelines in California. This project will design and install the necessary hardware and software to meet new ARCO standards for line integrity and operation. This project includes the installation of turbine meters, PD meters, piping, RTUs, PLCs, pressure transmitters, motor operated valves, logic controls and check valves. Twenty one sites are included over a period of two years.
Inlet Air Refrigeration Project
Watson Cogeneration Company, Carson, CA
Project management, conceptual design, and detailed design of an ammonia refrigeration system to chill inlet air for four GE frame 7 gas turbines, with a combined capacity of 320 megawatts. The purpose of the refrigeration system is to increase the generating capacity of the gas turbine generators by approximately 28 megawatts. The project included compressors, evaporative condensers, refrigeration coils, pressure vessels, piping, 13.8kv and 4160v electrical power distribution systems, and computerized control system. The total refrigeration capacity is approximately 14,000 tons.
Connect Line 104 to Shell and ARCO Refinery
ARCO Terminal Services Corporation, Carson, CA
Engineering and procurement services for a project to interconnect a shipping line at an existing meter to facilitate an exchange of products between ARCO and Shell. The project included piping, motor operated valves, control valves for pressure and flow, and remote operation of the valves.
West Hynes Storm Drain
ARCO Terminal Services Corporation, Carson, CA
Engineering services for a project to provide storm drainage and intermediate dikes for a tank farm. The project entails removing an existing tank water drawoff system and surface drainage system with sump and regrading the tank farm to control storm water runoff to a new retention basin. Also included is a new 24″ storm drain connection to the Los Angeles County storm drain system.
Demolition of Pipeway 195
ARCO Products Company, Carson, CA
Cost estimate, engineering, and detailed design of a project to demolish pipeway 195 and relocate all pipe and conduit to pipeway 89. The project included extending Pipeway 89, adding a pipe bridge road crossing, new pipe supports, foundations, structural reinforcement of the existing pipeway 89, pipe and conduit relocation, and tie-in planning.
Alternate Crude/Resid Line
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery, Carson, CA
Cost estimate, engineering and detailed design of a pipeline to carry hot resid from the Vacuum units to the Coker units. Over 3,000 feet of 6″ diameter 9Cr. 1Mo. pipe was required. Design required complete stress analysis for operating conditions above 700 oF.
Electrical Equipment Buildings Project
Unocal Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Design of two electrical equipment buildings to house motor control centers and switchgear at a drill site location. The project also included the demolition of existing facilities and the design of transformer pads.
Tank Farm #1 Water Draw-Off System
ARCO Terminal Services Corporation, Long Beach, CA
Engineering and detailed design of a system to handle the water draw-off from storage tanks at Marine Terminal No. 2. This project provided a separate system to handle water draw-off from the storage tanks in a closed system to comply with AQMD requirements. The project included piping, pipe supports, pumps and instrumentation.
Substation 66 Vault and Transformer Foundations
Mangan, Inc., Carson, CA
Prepared site grading, paving, and drainage plans for an electrical substation on a terraced site. Designed a foundation with a full basement-type cable vault for a prefabricated 21 ft by 45 ft substation consisting of 50 ft deep concrete piles, pile caps, grade beams, vault floor slab, vault walls, and building support columns. The project also included piles and foundations for four transformers, piles and pile caps for two electrical manholes, a pipe trench with traffic grating, and the relocation of existing process piping.
Tank 52 and Shipping Pump Fire Protection Project
ARCO Los Angeles, Carson, CA
Designed two extensions of the refinery firewater system to provide fire protection for the Tank 52 area and the shipping pump area. Automatic activation of deluge valves supplies fire water to five shipping pumps and a tank mixer. The project includes piping, automatic sprinklers, deluge valves, adjustable monitors, foam tanks, fog nozzles, sensing and activation systems, foundations, supports, and platforms.
Insurance Auto Auction Site Development
Sierra Pacific, Burbank, CA
Developed a site plan and prepared grading, paving, and drainage plans for the development of a twenty acre site consisting of vehicle storage area, auction lots, roads, offices, maintenance shops, and visitors parking areas. Outten Engineering Company also prepared drawings for the demolition of existing facilities.
Ferndale Natural Gas Pipeline
Four Corners Pipeline, Cherry Point, WA
Conceptual design and cost estimates for a compressor station and natural gas pipeline.
Continuous Emissions Monitoring System
Ultramar, Wilmington, CA
Designed building foundations and steel support platforms for five prefabricated buildings to house the control system equipment for a continuous emissions monitoring system for all stacks at the refinery. Designed an air purge system for stack analyzers. This project is required to comply with South Coast AQMD continuous emissions monitoring requirements.
Reliance Pit Fill Plan
CalMat Properties Company, Irwindale, CA
Development of a plan for filling a 90 acre, 200 feet deep gravel pit known as “Raider Crater”. The project consisted of developing the fill plan, providing permitting assistance, and designing the site gate house and office and site utilities.
Coker Switch Valve Installation
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Preparation of drawings, specifications, and logic sequence for the installation of motorized switching and isolation valves on six coke drums. The scope included 27 motorized valves, piping modifications, structural modifications, power supply and instrumentation.
Vapor Recovery Compressor No. 7
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Preparation of the detailed design for the installation of a skid-mounted vapor recovery compressor with a 800 horsepower motor driver and an oil separation system. The project consists of demolition of existing facilities, new foundations, a complete redesign of the suction and discharge headers serving all the refinery vapor recovery compressors, electrical power and controls wiring and PLC logic diagrams.
Air System Upgrade
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Conceptual and detailed design for an upgrade of the entire refinery air system including the addition of three air dryers and redesign of piping around air compressors, air dryers, and receivers.
P&ID Walkdown
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Walkdown and field verification of Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) for several process units including Vacuum Unit, Black Oil Slab, Reformer Tankage, In-Line Blender and Sour Water Oxidizer. The work involved verifying the equipment descriptions and ratings, PSV sizes and set points, pipe line material class, loop diagrams, instrumentation and a complete field check of equipment , pipe and instrumentation. The P&ID CAD drawing file was updated to incorporate the modifications.
Raise Buried Lines
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Conceptual design and master planning for a ten year program to identify and raise all underground lines, pipes in trenches and pipes on low sleepers to new or existing overhead pipeways
Pipeline Relocation
GATX Marine Terminal, Terminal Island, CA
Design for the relocation of aboveground and underground pipe at a marine terminal and the installation of transformer and switchgear foundations.
Standpipes in Reformer Reactors
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Designed a new standpipe to prevent plugging and catalyst carry-over in reformer reactors. Work included calculations, fabrication drawings, and purchase specifications.
Scheduling Services
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Provide in-house scheduling services to produce computerized schedules and reports for the project management and control of a project to walkdown and verify over 400 P&IDs.
Alkylation Unit Water Knock Out Drums
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design of a system to remove water from butane storage vessels. The project includes pressure vessels, piping, and instrumentation. Outten Engineering Company responsibilities included preparation of cost estimates, engineering calculations, specifications, and drawings.
North Area Process Office Building Addition
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Preparation of drawings to add a new wing of offices and conference rooms to an existing office building. The project included a new HVAC system and reconstruction of existing rest rooms for handicapped access. Outten Engineering Company responsibilities included permitting, engineering calculations, specifications, and drawings.
HRSG Debottlenecking
Watson Cogeneration Facility, Carson, CA
Debottlenecking project to increase the output of four heat recovery steam generators which operate in conjunction with four GE Frame 7 gas turbines. The complete system was evaluated and a design was prepared to implement recommendations to re-rate the boilers and replace the burners, flame panels, view ports, desuperheaters, steam drum safety relief valves, and turbine inlet filters.
FCC Unit Relief Valve Packages
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Preparation of specifications and procedures in a bid package for a construction contractor to install approximately 40 relief valves in the fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) Unit. The packages include drawings prepared by others, clients standard specification and standards, tie-in sequence, and weld procedures.
Z-Cat Continuous Injection System
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design a system to provide for continuous injection of a catalyst additive including the preparation of cost estimates, specifications, drawings, and calculations.
Storage Tank Data Base System
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design and implement a computer system to provide a data base for approximately 300 storage tanks. The program will calculate the maximum allowable liquid level for each tank using design formulas from API 650 based on the for the product stored and the latest ultrasonic inspection wall thickness readings.
Burbank Landfill Drainage Project Construction Management
EMCON Southwest, Burbank, CA
Construction management and site inspection services for the City of Burbank public works department for the installation of a storm water system consisting of drainage structures, swales, and drainage pipe.
SFIA Unit Water Knock Out Drums
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design of a system to remove water from hydrocarbon storage vessels. The project includes pressure vessels, piping, and instrumentation.
Vapor Recovery System Upgrade
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Evaluation of the Refinery Vapor Recovery System and design of modifications to liquid knock out drums, including the preparation of cost estimates, specifications, drawings, and calculations.
Hewitt Pit Landfill Flare System
CalMat Properties Company, North Hollywood, CA
Design of a landfill gas recovery system flare station consisting of a flare, blowers, condensate knock out drum, piping, and foundations. The project included preparation of drawings, specifications, cost estimates, and schedules: construction management services; and startup assistance.
Manifold Modification Project
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design of product manifolds at three fractionation towers bottoms coolers in a Coker Gasoline Fractionation Unit. The scope of work included the preparation of cost estimates, specifications, drawings, and calculations and coordination of tie-in work.
Reservoir 501 Transfer/Circulation System
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design a transfer and recirculation system for a crude oil storage reservoir. The project included piping, concrete retaining walls, pipe supports, control valve, and instrumentation.
Sulfur Incinerator Burner Replacement
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design of the replacement of burners at a sulfur tail gas unit incinerator with removable tip burners. The project included new piping, controls, rerouting conduit and wiring, and modifying platforms.
Olinda Alpha Sanitary Landfill Gas Wells and Header Piping Project
SCS Field Services, Orange County Waste Management Landfill, Brea, CA
Construction management for a landfill gas recovery system at a County of Orange landfill. The project included earthwork, gas recovery wells, and mile long 14″ diameter landfill gas collection pipe header with numerous 4″ and 8″ branch lines from the wells.
SFIA Unit Heat Medium Feed Drum Pressure Control System
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design of a system to provide a pressure control system consisting of fuel gas blanket and vapor recovery connections for the heat medium feed drum in the SFIA Unit. The project included new piping, instrumentation, and controls.
Slurry Strainer
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design for the addition of a basket strainer in the FCC slurry system. The project included a new strainer and related piping.
Tank 920 Replacement
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design for the replacement of a caustic storage tank with existing tank which was moved and double bottomed. The project included tank modifications, piping, and instrumentation.
HDS PRISM Feed Knock Out Drum Replacement
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design a replacement pressure vessel to provide more complete removal of hydrocarbon liquid from the PRISM feed line. The project included a new pressure vessel, piping, controls, structural steel and concrete foundations.
Vapor Recovery Systems for Storage Tanks
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design of gas blanketing and vapor recovery systems for six refinery storage tanks.
Southern California Edison Company, Long Beach, CA
Detailed design of a fire protection system for an oil storage tank farm. The fire protection system included two diesel-driven fire water booster pumps, fire water spray nozzles for the storage tank shells, fixed foam monitors, removable fire and heat protection wall panels, a connection to the City water supply line, and emergency connections of the fire water system to station water system and to sea water pumps at the station sea water intake structure. The project also included raising intermediate dikes between tanks and an extensive elevated walkway system to connect the storage tanks. OEC assisted with the permitting process and coordination with regulating agencies.
Connection Upgrade Project
ARCO Terminal Services Corporation, CA
Project management, engineering, detailed design, construction support and start-up to upgrade 25 pipelines in California. This project will design and install the necessary hardware and software to meet new ARCO standards for line integrity and operation. This project includes the installation of turbine meters, PD meters, piping, RTUs, PLCs, pressure transmitters, motor operated valves, logic controls and check valves. Twenty one sites are included over a period of two years.
Inlet Air Refrigeration Project
Watson Cogeneration Company, Carson, CA
Project management, conceptual design, and detailed design of an ammonia refrigeration system to chill inlet air for four GE frame 7 gas turbines, with a combined capacity of 320 megawatts. The purpose of the refrigeration system is to increase the generating capacity of the gas turbine generators by approximately 28 megawatts. The project included compressors, evaporative condensers, refrigeration coils, pressure vessels, piping, 13.8kv and 4160v electrical power distribution systems, and computerized control system. The total refrigeration capacity is approximately 14,000 tons.
Connect Line 104 to Shell and ARCO Refinery
ARCO Terminal Services Corporation, Carson, CA
Engineering and procurement services for a project to interconnect a shipping line at an existing meter to facilitate an exchange of products between ARCO and Shell. The project included piping, motor operated valves, control valves for pressure and flow, and remote operation of the valves.
West Hynes Storm Drain
ARCO Terminal Services Corporation, Carson, CA
Engineering services for a project to provide storm drainage and intermediate dikes for a tank farm. The project entails removing an existing tank water drawoff system and surface drainage system with sump and regrading the tank farm to control storm water runoff to a new retention basin. Also included is a new 24″ storm drain connection to the Los Angeles County storm drain system.
Demolition of Pipeway 195
ARCO Products Company, Carson, CA
Cost estimate, engineering, and detailed design of a project to demolish pipeway 195 and relocate all pipe and conduit to pipeway 89. The project included extending Pipeway 89, adding a pipe bridge road crossing, new pipe supports, foundations, structural reinforcement of the existing pipeway 89, pipe and conduit relocation, and tie-in planning.
Alternate Crude/Resid Line
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery, Carson, CA
Cost estimate, engineering and detailed design of a pipeline to carry hot resid from the Vacuum units to the Coker units. Over 3,000 feet of 6″ diameter 9Cr. 1Mo. pipe was required. Design required complete stress analysis for operating conditions above 700 oF.
Electrical Equipment Buildings Project
Unocal Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Design of two electrical equipment buildings to house motor control centers and switchgear at a drill site location. The project also included the demolition of existing facilities and the design of transformer pads.
Tank Farm #1 Water Draw-Off System
ARCO Terminal Services Corporation, Long Beach, CA
Engineering and detailed design of a system to handle the water draw-off from storage tanks at Marine Terminal No. 2. This project provided a separate system to handle water draw-off from the storage tanks in a closed system to comply with AQMD requirements. The project included piping, pipe supports, pumps and instrumentation.
Substation 66 Vault and Transformer Foundations
Mangan, Inc., Carson, CA
Prepared site grading, paving, and drainage plans for an electrical substation on a terraced site. Designed a foundation with a full basement-type cable vault for a prefabricated 21 ft by 45 ft substation consisting of 50 ft deep concrete piles, pile caps, grade beams, vault floor slab, vault walls, and building support columns. The project also included piles and foundations for four transformers, piles and pile caps for two electrical manholes, a pipe trench with traffic grating, and the relocation of existing process piping.
Tank 52 and Shipping Pump Fire Protection Project
ARCO Los Angeles, Carson, CA
Designed two extensions of the refinery firewater system to provide fire protection for the Tank 52 area and the shipping pump area. Automatic activation of deluge valves supplies fire water to five shipping pumps and a tank mixer. The project includes piping, automatic sprinklers, deluge valves, adjustable monitors, foam tanks, fog nozzles, sensing and activation systems, foundations, supports, and platforms.
Insurance Auto Auction Site Development
Sierra Pacific, Burbank, CA
Developed a site plan and prepared grading, paving, and drainage plans for the development of a twenty acre site consisting of vehicle storage area, auction lots, roads, offices, maintenance shops, and visitors parking areas. Outten Engineering Company also prepared drawings for the demolition of existing facilities.
Ferndale Natural Gas Pipeline
Four Corners Pipeline, Cherry Point, WA
Conceptual design and cost estimates for a compressor station and natural gas pipeline.
Continuous Emissions Monitoring System
Ultramar, Wilmington, CA
Designed building foundations and steel support platforms for five prefabricated buildings to house the control system equipment for a continuous emissions monitoring system for all stacks at the refinery. Designed an air purge system for stack analyzers. This project is required to comply with South Coast AQMD continuous emissions monitoring requirements.
Reliance Pit Fill Plan
CalMat Properties Company, Irwindale, CA
Development of a plan for filling a 90 acre, 200 feet deep gravel pit known as “Raider Crater”. The project consisted of developing the fill plan, providing permitting assistance, and designing the site gate house and office and site utilities.
Coker Switch Valve Installation
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Preparation of drawings, specifications, and logic sequence for the installation of motorized switching and isolation valves on six coke drums. The scope included 27 motorized valves, piping modifications, structural modifications, power supply and instrumentation.
Vapor Recovery Compressor No. 7
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Preparation of the detailed design for the installation of a skid-mounted vapor recovery compressor with a 800 horsepower motor driver and an oil separation system. The project consists of demolition of existing facilities, new foundations, a complete redesign of the suction and discharge headers serving all the refinery vapor recovery compressors, electrical power and controls wiring and PLC logic diagrams.
Air System Upgrade
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Conceptual and detailed design for an upgrade of the entire refinery air system including the addition of three air dryers and redesign of piping around air compressors, air dryers, and receivers.
P&ID Walkdown
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Walkdown and field verification of Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) for several process units including Vacuum Unit, Black Oil Slab, Reformer Tankage, In-Line Blender and Sour Water Oxidizer. The work involved verifying the equipment descriptions and ratings, PSV sizes and set points, pipe line material class, loop diagrams, instrumentation and a complete field check of equipment , pipe and instrumentation. The P&ID CAD drawing file was updated to incorporate the modifications.
Raise Buried Lines
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Conceptual design and master planning for a ten year program to identify and raise all underground lines, pipes in trenches and pipes on low sleepers to new or existing overhead pipeways
Pipeline Relocation
GATX Marine Terminal, Terminal Island, CA
Design for the relocation of aboveground and underground pipe at a marine terminal and the installation of transformer and switchgear foundations.
Standpipes in Reformer Reactors
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Designed a new standpipe to prevent plugging and catalyst carry-over in reformer reactors. Work included calculations, fabrication drawings, and purchase specifications.
Scheduling Services
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Provide in-house scheduling services to produce computerized schedules and reports for the project management and control of a project to walkdown and verify over 400 P&IDs.
Alkylation Unit Water Knock Out Drums
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design of a system to remove water from butane storage vessels. The project includes pressure vessels, piping, and instrumentation. Outten Engineering Company responsibilities included preparation of cost estimates, engineering calculations, specifications, and drawings.
North Area Process Office Building Addition
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Preparation of drawings to add a new wing of offices and conference rooms to an existing office building. The project included a new HVAC system and reconstruction of existing rest rooms for handicapped access. Outten Engineering Company responsibilities included permitting, engineering calculations, specifications, and drawings.
HRSG Debottlenecking
Watson Cogeneration Facility, Carson, CA
Debottlenecking project to increase the output of four heat recovery steam generators which operate in conjunction with four GE Frame 7 gas turbines. The complete system was evaluated and a design was prepared to implement recommendations to re-rate the boilers and replace the burners, flame panels, view ports, desuperheaters, steam drum safety relief valves, and turbine inlet filters.
FCC Unit Relief Valve Packages
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Preparation of specifications and procedures in a bid package for a construction contractor to install approximately 40 relief valves in the fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) Unit. The packages include drawings prepared by others, clients standard specification and standards, tie-in sequence, and weld procedures.
Z-Cat Continuous Injection System
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design a system to provide for continuous injection of a catalyst additive including the preparation of cost estimates, specifications, drawings, and calculations.
Storage Tank Data Base System
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design and implement a computer system to provide a data base for approximately 300 storage tanks. The program will calculate the maximum allowable liquid level for each tank using design formulas from API 650 based on the for the product stored and the latest ultrasonic inspection wall thickness readings.
Burbank Landfill Drainage Project Construction Management
EMCON Southwest, Burbank, CA
Construction management and site inspection services for the City of Burbank public works department for the installation of a storm water system consisting of drainage structures, swales, and drainage pipe.
SFIA Unit Water Knock Out Drums
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design of a system to remove water from hydrocarbon storage vessels. The project includes pressure vessels, piping, and instrumentation.
Vapor Recovery System Upgrade
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Evaluation of the Refinery Vapor Recovery System and design of modifications to liquid knock out drums, including the preparation of cost estimates, specifications, drawings, and calculations.
Hewitt Pit Landfill Flare System
CalMat Properties Company, North Hollywood, CA
Design of a landfill gas recovery system flare station consisting of a flare, blowers, condensate knock out drum, piping, and foundations. The project included preparation of drawings, specifications, cost estimates, and schedules: construction management services; and startup assistance.
Manifold Modification Project
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design of product manifolds at three fractionation towers bottoms coolers in a Coker Gasoline Fractionation Unit. The scope of work included the preparation of cost estimates, specifications, drawings, and calculations and coordination of tie-in work.
Reservoir 501 Transfer/Circulation System
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design a transfer and recirculation system for a crude oil storage reservoir. The project included piping, concrete retaining walls, pipe supports, control valve, and instrumentation.
Sulfur Incinerator Burner Replacement
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design of the replacement of burners at a sulfur tail gas unit incinerator with removable tip burners. The project included new piping, controls, rerouting conduit and wiring, and modifying platforms.
Olinda Alpha Sanitary Landfill Gas Wells and Header Piping Project
SCS Field Services, Orange County Waste Management Landfill, Brea, CA
Construction management for a landfill gas recovery system at a County of Orange landfill. The project included earthwork, gas recovery wells, and mile long 14″ diameter landfill gas collection pipe header with numerous 4″ and 8″ branch lines from the wells.
SFIA Unit Heat Medium Feed Drum Pressure Control System
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design of a system to provide a pressure control system consisting of fuel gas blanket and vapor recovery connections for the heat medium feed drum in the SFIA Unit. The project included new piping, instrumentation, and controls.
Slurry Strainer
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design for the addition of a basket strainer in the FCC slurry system. The project included a new strainer and related piping.
Tank 920 Replacement
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design for the replacement of a caustic storage tank with existing tank which was moved and double bottomed. The project included tank modifications, piping, and instrumentation.
HDS PRISM Feed Knock Out Drum Replacement
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design a replacement pressure vessel to provide more complete removal of hydrocarbon liquid from the PRISM feed line. The project included a new pressure vessel, piping, controls, structural steel and concrete foundations.
Vapor Recovery Systems for Storage Tanks
ARCO Los Angeles Refinery
Design of gas blanketing and vapor recovery systems for six refinery storage tanks.
