Midstream

Deep oil and gas industry expertise
Midstream oil and gas assets and operations play a vital role in the world’s energy systems, providing infrastructure and enabling security of supply while connecting upstream resources to downstream processing. Midstream assets include gathering and processing facilities, transportation, and storage. Development and execution of each aspect require the high level of expertise for which Lummus Consultants is known.
Lummus Consultants has extensive midstream oil and gas experience, providing solutions and services around the globe and across the enterprise. Our team of consultants focuses on critical areas that can affect a project’s financial success, including the following:
- Condition assessment and asset integrity management compliance that could affect future deliverability and capital costs
- Design and material implications for transporting natural gas with an increased hydrogen content or carbon dioxide
- Right of way acquisitions and/or potential for eminent domain
- Availability of key craft labor
- Lead times for the manufacture of critical equipment
- Complexities of sales and purchase agreements, transportation agreements, and interconnection agreements
- Economics of LPG extraction
- ESG and sustainability considerations
Included in our midstream oil and gas project experience are well construction (production and injection), salt cavern storage, greenfield and brownfield gathering systems, processing facilities, compression and pumping facilities, pipelines, terminal storage facilities, and aquifer and hydrocarbon well storage. Our expertise covers onshore and offshore pipelines for the transportation of oil, condensates, NGLs, natural gas, and products such as ethylene. In recent years we have reviewed more than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) of midstream pipeline systems and associated compression and pumping facilities.
Capabilities across the value stream
Lummus Consultants has played a key role in the development and financing of energy storage projects, with technologies that range from hydro-pumped storage to BESS and compressed air storage. Our project experience includes numerous battery energy storage designs and technologies, and our experts stay up to date on the advancement of BESS technology through BESS packagers and original equipment manufacturers.
Our consultants are well versed in all aspects of a battery storage projects, including battery storage procurement, EPC contract terms, performance, the effects of battery degradation and augmentation 2 approach, the cost to support long-term reliable operation, fire prevention system requirements, permitting, and integration of the BESS to the grid or local off taker.
As an integral part of the project advisory team, we work to confirm that BESS project technical, commercial and environmental risks are appropriately identified and mitigated, a critical element to project development and securing project financing. We have provided technical advisory services to clients in the evaluation of acquiring BESS portfolios as well as project financing technical due diligence services for new construction of facilities up to 250 MW.


Support to help support your battery storage project needs
Properly assessing battery storage technology and solutions requires a combination of technical expertise with battery technologies and power project experience. BESS projects and applications come with unique challenges and business goals. Our experts effectively identify project risks and assess mitigation measures as well as identify possible opportunities in this growing technology area.
Our energy storage experience is both deep and broad, including serving as an advisor for the construction of what will be one of the largest installed BESS projects in the world. No matter the size or complexity of your project, our experts bring valuable insight and expertise.
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