Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Growing demand for natural gas is leading utilities and co-ops to turn their focus to liquefied natural gas (LNG) for peak-shaving local demand curves, supplying remote locations with energy and supporting areas looking to avoid new natural pipelines.
How LNG Adds Strength in Peak Season
Storing LNG can help meet demand peaks, particularly in the support of gas-fired generation that powers load growth like data centers and artificial intelligence operations. LNG storage can also address seasonal demand changes by liquefying when gas prices are down and vaporizing when natural gas is most needed.
Our team understands the challenges of market demand and can design and deliver facilities with the speed and agility to help you ramp up when peak shaving is needed.
The Burns & McDonnell Advantage
We can integrate LNG into your existing facilities or improve the effectiveness of new operations. We compare the economic value of investment in LNG peak shaving with other options, including paying elevated peak prices. Our additional experience with liquefaction, gas transmission, transport pipelines and processing solutions for terminal facilities allows us to help you navigate the key steps in every project phase.
Our full-service, multidisciplinary solutions cover conceptual design and preliminary engineering through engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services and on to facility commissioning and startup. We can self-perform steel and pipe fabrication and have direct-hire construction capabilities to remove uncertainty from your project.
From feed gas pipelines and compressor stations to liquefaction facilities, we have delivered the components that make LNG facilities work. Our integrated experience across these interfaces helps minimize design gaps, streamline commissioning, and keep construction aligned with operations from the beginning through to completion.
Our in-house capabilities cover all needs for environmental permitting, routing, design and construction, helping to select the appropriate technologies, assess financial impacts and address operational changes. We have provided services ranging from feasibility studies and land surveys to stormwater pollution prevention plans and wetland impact documentation. Our scope has included detailed design of all balance-of-plant systems, as well as procurement of equipment.
LNG Peak Shaver Maintenance & Updates
We support LNG peak shavers with brownfield electrical maintenance and reliability projects — also known as industrial electrical systems or plant electrical infrastructure — including power distribution equipment and associated electrical area classification considerations. We also bring experience in reliability improvement projects, including equipment upgrades, plant drawings and procedure updates. Our understanding of the LNG vaporization process, combined with our experience in combustion turbine designs, provides a complete solution for fuel system modifications.
Decision Support for LNG Capital Project Development
Economic benefits to be derived from a project depend on many factors, including the price differential for natural gas, the cost of securing supply, and the opportunity cost of a forced outage. Investment is weighed against pipeline capacity, constraints and expansion plans. Even when an LNG project is deemed beneficial, its size and configuration are influenced by the economic opportunity.
In partnership with 1898 & Co., our business, technology and security consultancy, our team helps bring clarity to the benefits and challenges of LNG projects in their earliest stages. Our services include business case development, capital planning, pro forma financial modeling, operating scenario planning, advanced financial analysis including real option assessment and Monte Carlo analysis, reference case development for the energy price outlook, and review of environmental and regulatory requirements.
