O&G · Oil & Gas
Oil and gas: LNG, gas processing, handling and storage
Midstream and downstream process packages, utilities and measurement — plus the produced water, oily water and refinery effluent engineering that usually comes with them.
The sector
Overview
Glorinda delivers midstream and downstream solutions for the oil and gas industry. We are not an upstream drilling contractor and we do not pretend to be. What we do is the process, packaging and utility engineering between the wellhead and the product — liquefaction, gas processing and separation, refrigeration, rotary machinery, material handling, storage, and the analysis systems that tell the plant what it is making.
In addition to being one of the most efficient and environmentally friendly fossil fuels, natural gas has real long-term value, and we have concentrated engineering and technological capability on the infrastructure around it. Glorinda provides turnkey and ready-to-use projects in the gas industry, covering the EPC of small and medium liquefaction plants, LNG distribution tanks for land, river and sea transportation, and the construction of small and medium gasification terminals.
Where the water discipline meets the hydrocarbon one
Refineries and petrochemical complexes are among the largest and most difficult industrial water users we work with. Produced water, desalter effluent, oily water from API and CPI separators, high-COD petrochemical streams, cooling water recovery, boiler feed and HRSG make-up, and refinery ZLD are all recurring scopes — and because our environmental practice is deep, they can be engineered as part of the same project rather than tendered separately.
How we work in this sector
Three shapes. As a package supplier into an EPC contractor's scope, with performance guarantees and factory acceptance testing before shipment. As the engineering authority on the client's side — feasibility consultant, EPC advisor, owner's engineer or EPCM contractor. And as a technology and equipment supplier where a specific package is what the project actually needs.
All equipment we supply is developed under the Glorinda brand and manufactured by qualified OEM partners inside a quality-controlled supply chain that we specify and audit. We own the technical specification, the branding, the quality control and the custom development.
Value chain
Where we sit in the value chain
Our scope concentrates on midstream and downstream: what happens to hydrocarbon after extraction and before it leaves as product. Within that, we work on the process packages, the utilities and the measurement — the parts of a facility that are shared between units and therefore most often fall between contract packages.
Process diagram
Sector value chain
Reserved for a static value-chain diagram showing feedstock, conversion, utilities, emissions and residues, with the Glorinda scope marked on each stage.
Static process diagram — final artwork to be supplied.
Gas processing and conditioning
Feed receiving, acid gas removal, dehydration and mercury removal — the conditioning steps ahead of liquefaction or further processing. Our mini LNG scope includes the amine contactor module for CO₂ removal and the mole sieve TSA dehydration module.
Liquefaction and regasification
Small and medium-scale LNG liquefaction plants, regasification terminals, LNG storage tanks, virtual pipeline distribution and floating storage and regasification units (FSRU).
Separation and high-purity gas
PSA and membrane technologies for nitrogen generation, oxygen generation, hydrogen production and purification, CO₂ separation and mixed-gas systems including helium recovery and ammonia synthesis.
Rotary machinery and refrigeration
Complete rotary machinery skids — pumps, compressors, turbines, fans and blowers — and refrigeration packages engineered in compliance with API 619 and API 682.
Handling and storage
Pneumatic and mechanical conveying with de-dusting, custom silos in aluminium or stainless steel, and pressurised and cryogenic storage designed to ASME, API and EN standards.
Measurement and utilities
Analyzer and metering systems, sampling and corrosion monitoring, plus the water, steam and cooling systems that keep the process running.
Applications
Typical applications
Mini LNG and virtual pipeline
Small and medium-scale liquefaction serving areas without pipeline infrastructure, with refrigerated transport tanks and satellite regasification stations.
Read moreStorage and terminals
LNG storage tanks, regasification terminals, FSRU, pressurised tanks and cryogenic storage facilities.
Read moreMaterial handling
Pneumatic and mechanical conveying, de-dusting and custom storage silos for refineries, petrochemicals and fertilizer plants.
Read moreHigh-purity gas
PSA and membrane nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, CO₂ separation and helium recovery.
Read moreIndustrial refrigeration
Propylene, ammonia, R507A, R410A and R22 packages for liquefaction, condensation, low-temperature storage and process cooling.
Read moreAnalyzer and metering
Process analyzer packages, CEMS, sampling systems, tank gauging, metering and corrosion monitoring.
Read moreProblems
Common challenges
Every line below is a real operating problem raised by plants in this sector, matched to the capability that answers it.
Oil and gas extraction produces large volumes of water alongside the hydrocarbon, carrying oil, grease, suspended solids, salinity and process chemicals. It has to be treated before disposal or reuse, and it is usually hidden under a generic wastewater heading rather than engineered properly. Pretreatment, advanced wastewater treatment and adsorbent technology address it.
The crude oil desalter produces effluent carrying oil, salt, phenol and organic compounds. It is one of the first water entry points in a refinery and needs oil-contaminated water treatment and advanced treatment rather than a general effluent plant.
API separators, CPI separators and the oily water sewer collect hydrocarbon-contaminated water from process units, equipment washing and drains. Nearly every refinery and petrochemical plant faces it, and it needs specialised separation, adsorption and biological treatment.
Some petrochemical streams carry complex organic compounds, toxic compounds and high COD that ordinary methods cannot treat. AnaeroMBR, advanced oxidation and adsorbent technology are the routes that work.
Refineries consume large volumes of cooling water, and rising TDS forces blowdown and water loss. On the steam side, poor feedwater causes scaling, corrosion and reduced boiler efficiency — including on HRSG duty. Both are addressed by ion exchange, EDI, mixed bed and blowdown recovery.
In enhanced oil recovery, poor-quality injection water causes reservoir plugging, reduced permeability and well damage. Here water is not waste — it is an operating fluid, and it needs filtration, membrane treatment and ion exchange accordingly.
Treating oily wastewater produces large volumes of contaminated sludge whose disposal carries both cost and environmental restriction. Sludge management is a major part of refinery effluent plant OPEX and is normally under-designed.
What we deliver
Available solutions
Mini LNG plants
Around 200 TPD of LNG, equivalent to 13,500 m³/h of natural gas feed. Modular and expandable design, and no water consumption during operation.
Read moreRefrigeration packages
Propylene (R1270), ammonia (R717), R507A, R410A and R22 systems engineered in compliance with API 619 and API 682.
Read moreRotary machinery skids
Pumps, compressors, turbines, fans and blowers engineered for reliable performance and smooth integration.
Read moreMaterial handling systems
Pneumatic conveying in dilute, mixed and dense phase with advanced de-dusting, plus mechanical conveying and custom silos.
Read moreStorage tanks and silos
Pressurised tanks and cryogenic storage facilities designed to ASME, API 620, 650, 653, EN14620, EN14015 and related standards.
Read moreHigh-purity gas production
PSA and membrane units for nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen production and purification, CO₂ separation and mixed-gas systems.
Read moreAnalyzer and metering systems
Analyzer packages, CEMS and AQMS, liquid analysis, sampling systems, tank gauging, metering and corrosion monitoring.
Read moreWater and wastewater for refineries
Produced water, desalter effluent, oily water, high-COD streams, cooling recovery, boiler feed and refinery ZLD.
Read moreConcentrated solar power
CSP with molten salt storage, used for process heat and power on facilities with the land and irradiance to support it.
Read moreWater
Water solutions
Refineries and petrochemical complexes generate some of the most difficult water streams in industry, and they generate a lot of them. Our scope covers produced water treatment, desalter wastewater, refinery cooling water recovery, boiler feed water including HRSG duty, steam cycle water treatment, hydrocarbon-contaminated water from API and CPI separators and the oily water sewer, petrochemical wastewater reuse, high-COD petrochemical wastewater, refinery ZLD, water injection treatment for enhanced oil recovery, cooling tower blowdown recovery and sludge management in refinery wastewater plants.
Because our environmental practice is one of our deepest, these are engineered properly rather than sub-contracted.
Products
Product families
Analyzer & metering systems
Gas chromatographs, total sulfur, NIR, CEMS, oil-in-water and moisture analysis in shelters, cabinets and racks, with sampling and corrosion monitoring.
Read moreLiquid ring vacuum pumps
Flare gas recovery, vacuum distillation, process gas handling and vapour recovery, including explosion-protected models.
Read moreSteam turbines
50 kW to 180 MW for co-generation, power generation and energy recovery, with oil and gas among the listed applications.
Read moreIon exchange resins
Condensate polishing, demineralisation and hydrocarbon-stream purification duties.
Read moreServices
Services for this sector
Oil & gas engineering
Midstream and downstream engineering, process package engineering, utility system engineering, gas processing engineering, LNG engineering, and analyzer and metering system engineering.
Read moreEquipment integration
Refrigeration packages, rotary machinery packages, material handling systems, storage systems, gas separation and high-purity gas production systems.
Read moreIndustrial services
Installation, commissioning, start-up, operation support, operator training, maintenance, troubleshooting and after-sales technical support.
Read moreTrading & procurement
Turbines, filters, compressors, instrumentation, skid packages, chemicals and catalysts, and pumps from a qualified global supplier network.
Read moreWater for oil & gas
Produced water, desalter effluent, oily water, cooling recovery, boiler feed and refinery ZLD.
Read moreProject finance
Utility plants, environmental compliance facilities and process optimisation projects are eligible under the German framework.
Read moreMini LNG
LNG: what we build and what it does
Glorinda operates across the LNG process chain — liquefaction, storage, gasification, distribution and power generation — and has designed specific solutions including re-liquefiers for boil-off, refrigerated storage tanks, and floating and submerged storage and gasification methods.
Scope
- LNG distribution through virtual pipelines — a medium or small liquefaction plant, a fleet of refrigerated transport tanks, portable liquid-to-gas conversion units and satellite regasification stations at strategic locations, supplying places where pipeline infrastructure cannot be built.
- Small and medium-scale liquefaction plants serving sparsely populated areas without requiring a large construction area.
- Regasification terminals across three components: offshore and marine sites, processing plants, and special LNG refrigerated storage tanks — double-walled and insulated against leakage as both liquid and gas. Where useful, this can be integrated with combined cycle power plants.
- LNG storage tanks for land, river and sea transportation.
- Floating storage and regasification units (FSRU) in offshore, close-to-shore and offshore turret-moored configurations.
Why the nitrogen cycle design
The cooling system operates on a closed cycle of nitrogen expansion, and that choice drives most of the plant's advantages:
- Simplicity. No need to adapt the refrigerant design to weather conditions or gas composition, so an independent cooling system is easier, more cost-effective and more efficient.
- No critical external resources. Nitrogen is produced on site, whereas plants using mixed refrigeration require specific hydrocarbons that are not always available.
- Safety. Refrigerant leakage is not hazardous or toxic.
- Less rotary equipment. Only two major turbomachines, giving a longer life cycle, minimal maintenance and lower operating expenditure.
- Portability. The plant is classified as prefabricated modules, so the whole system can be relocated; only the construction investment is lost, and that is under 5% of the initial investment.
- Minimum construction. Concrete slabs or pads are the only civil works required.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| LNG production | 210 TPD (130,000 LNG gpd // 490 m³/day) |
| Natural gas feed | 13,500 m³/h (10.6 MMSCFD // 11,800 Nm³/h) |
| Energy equivalent | 11,284 MBTU // 137 MWh // 284 TEP/day |
| Electrical consumption | 6.2–6.5 MW |
| Water consumption | Almost zero — heat is dissipated by air coolers |
| Plant area | ≈15,000 m² (preferred layout 100 × 150 m) |
| Design pressure | 435 PSIG (30 barG) |
| Design temperature | 90 °F (32 °C) daily average |
| LNG production conditions | 21.8 PSIG (1.5 barG), −158 to −162 °C |
| Operating staff | 10–15, depending on project conditions |
| Cooling system | Closed nitrogen expansion cycle; nitrogen generated on site by PSA |
Source: Glorinda LNG technical profile. Figures are indicative for the standard module and are confirmed against project conditions.
Cost and return figures quoted in our LNG profile are indicative and depend entirely on gas price, location and financing structure. We model them per project rather than publishing them as expectations.
Packages, handling and storage
Refrigeration packages
Glorinda designs and integrates refrigeration systems for industrial applications, working with propylene (R1270), ammonia (R717), R507A, R410A and R22. All systems are engineered in compliance with API 619 and API 682. Applications include gas separation through liquefaction, condensation of exhaust gases, low-temperature liquid storage, moisture control for hygroscopic materials, solidification from solution, and heat removal during chemical transformations.
Rotary machinery skids
Complete skids including pumps (centrifugal, screw, reciprocating, canned type and magnet drive), compressors (centrifugal, screw and reciprocating), turbines (gas and steam) and fans and blowers (centrifugal, screw and turbo). Each unit is engineered for reliable performance and smooth integration into industrial systems.
Material handling
Pneumatic conveying — solutions for dilute phase, mixed phase and dense phase conveying, with advanced de-dusting technology for clean and safe operation.
Mechanical conveying — designed for high reliability, flexibility and efficiency across a wide range of industries.
Storage silos — custom-designed in aluminium or stainless steel to client requirements, complying with ASME, DIN and EN standards and engineered to withstand wind and seismic loads. Bolted, welded and blending types are available.
Storage tanks
A wide range for refineries, petrochemicals, fertilizers, power plants, steel and other infrastructure sectors, designed to ASME, API 620, 650, 653, EN14620, EN14015, ANSI, JIS, KS, BS, ISO, AWWA, NACE, NFPA, UBC, IBC, AWS and ASCE. Pressurised tanks include double spherical, spherical and LPG mounded vessels; cryogenic storage facilities cover LNG, LAr, LN₂, LO₂, ethylene, methanol, ammonia, propylene, propane and butane.
Gas separation
High-purity gas production
Glorinda provides advanced gas generation and purification units using PSA (pressure swing adsorption) and membrane technologies, designed to deliver high purity gases for industrial applications.
Available solutions include nitrogen generation, oxygen generation, hydrogen production and purification, CO₂ separation, and mixed-gas systems such as helium recovery and ammonia synthesis gas.
Hydrogen production connects directly to our energy storage scope, where hydrogen storage is one of five storage families we deliver.
Process diagram
Feed gas → PSA or membrane separation → product gas + tail gas
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Evidence
Case studies and projects
Sample layout. Reference projects are being cleared for publication with the clients concerned. The structure below is final; the content is placeholder.
SampleWater reuse retrofit — sample card
Card layout for a completed water reuse project: stream data before and after, recovery achieved, scope Glorinda held, and the client's own words.
SampleZLD package — sample card
Card layout for a zero liquid discharge package: feed characterisation, evaporator type selected, solid output route, and commissioning duration.
SampleOwner's engineer mandate — sample card
Card layout for an advisory mandate: the client's decision, the options assessed, and what changed in the tender as a result.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is your scope in oil and gas — upstream too?
Midstream and downstream. Gas processing, LNG, refrigeration, rotary machinery, material handling, storage, high-purity gas and analysis systems, plus the water and utility engineering around them. We are not an upstream drilling contractor.
What is LNG and where does a mini LNG plant fit?
LNG is natural gas cooled to around −162 °C so that it occupies a fraction of its gaseous volume and can be transported without a pipeline. A mini LNG plant produces around 210 TPD from a 13,500 m³/h gas feed, in a modular, expandable installation occupying about 15,000 m² and consuming essentially no water. It suits areas without pipeline infrastructure, and it can form part of a virtual pipeline network.
Can Glorinda deliver a complete package into our EPC scope?
Yes — that is one of our three normal shapes of engagement. Technology packages, key equipment supply, specialised engineering services and performance-critical systems, supplied against a defined scope with factory acceptance testing before shipment.
Which standards do your storage tanks comply with?
ASME, API 620, 650 and 653, EN14620, EN14015, ANSI, JIS, KS, BS, ISO, AWWA, NACE, NFPA, UBC, IBC, AWS and ASCE, among others. Silos comply with ASME, DIN and EN and are engineered for wind and seismic loads.
Do you handle refinery wastewater as well as process equipment?
Yes, and it is one of our strongest arguments. Produced water, desalter effluent, oily water from API and CPI separators, high-COD petrochemical streams, cooling water recovery, boiler feed and HRSG make-up, refinery ZLD and oily sludge management are all core capabilities. Engineering them alongside the process scope avoids the gap that opens when they are tendered separately.
Have you built similar projects?
Our analyzer and metering business holds a substantial reference list of delivered analyzer packages for refineries and petrochemical complexes across the Middle East, Asia and beyond; a summary is on the analyzer product page. For process and water scopes, reference projects are being cleared for publication with the clients concerned — ask and we will share what has been released.
Conversion
Take this further
Send us the stream data, the discharge limit or the equipment list you are working from. An engineer reads every enquiry and replies with the questions that actually decide the solution — not a brochure.
Contact
Bring us the constraint you cannot design around
Send the gas analysis, the throughput and the site constraint. LNG, separation and refrigeration all resolve quickly once those three are on the table.