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Alpine Project
Bay Ltd. began work in July 1998 on the construction of the Natural Gas
Processing Components of the Alpine Development Project to be located in Kapuzak near Prudoe Bay, Alaska. The Alpine development is designed to
process 70,000/bbl of crude oil per day and 135 million standard cubic feet
per day of natural gas. The modules constructed by Bay Ltd. were shipped to
Anchorage, Alaska in June 1999.
Bay Ltd. fabricated eight (8) process modules totaling approximately
9,000 tons. The individual modules that make up the natural gas processing
facility include:
C1
135 X 52 X 48 High Pressure Natural Gas Injection Compressor Module
C2
131 X 44 X 44 Injection Compressor Separators & Gas Condensate
Injection Module
C3
135 X 55 X 42 Low Pressure Injection Compressor Module
C4
66 X 82 X 17 Injection Compressor Cooler and Fuel Gas Module
C5 140 X 79 X 20
Low Pressure Compressor and
Injection Compressor Module
E1
120 X 75 X 47 Primary Electrical Generator Module
E2
150 X 85 X 40 Secondary Electrical Generator and Utilities Module
L3
70 X 30 X 20 Fire water (Fine water mist) and Pump Module
The Project included structural steel and process piping fabrication and
erection. Process equipment purchasing, marshalling, and installation.
Module heavy hauling and barge loadout and module tie down on the barge.
Bay’s direct employment on the project peaked at over 575 people and
totals over 850,000 manhours of work. Additionally, the principle owner
ARCO, the Calgary, Alberta, Canada based engineering firm, Tri Ocean
Engineering and the native Alaskan owned prime contractor, Alaska Petroleum
Contractors, Inc. have had a management and technical staff averaging thirty
(30) employees in Corpus Christi for the last year.
A number of the Bay Ltd. craftsman employed on this project, have
received training through Bay’s “Marvin L. Berry Craft Training Center.”
The training center developed in 1998 provides on going craft upgrade
training and an opportunity for new employees and helpers to learn high
paying skilled craft positions.
Capital equipment (process equipment) included Gas Compressors and turbines
manufactured in Italy. Bay Ltd. operates a sub-zone within the Port of
Corpus Christi’s Foreign Trade Zone that represented financial benefits to
the project in allowing the owners to reduce and defer tariff payments on
these critical imported items.
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