Petroleum refining is an industrial process where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas.
When it comes to refineries, Bantrel does everything from maintenance, infrastructure revamps and turnarounds to design, construction and start-up of complex grassroots facilities.
In conjunction with our parent company Bechtel, we have been involved with more refining projects in North America than any other single EPC contractor. Among our signature projects is the design and construction of the Shell Scotford plant in Alberta, the last grassroots refinery built in North America.
We have worked with all of the major refiners across Canada on dozens of projects:
from ongoing refinery alliance maintenance and sustaining capital projects to grassroots
bitumen upgrading facilities.
Bantrel has been at the forefront of oilsands projects for over 40 years. Our majority shareholder Bechtel executed projects
for the Great Canadian Oil Sands Company, now known as Suncor Energy, in the early 1960s.
Bantrel has in-depth experience processing bitumen to produce synthetic
crude oil is unmatched.
Bantrel’s engineering expertise has contributed to the production of over 650,000 barrels per day of synthetic crude oil from the
oilsands alone - that's more than 20% of all oil production in Canada. And, today, we are working on an additional 300,000 bpd of production.
In addition, our expertise in both mature and developing upgrading
technologies enables us to expeditiously examine and screen a broad range
of processing configurations. Our technical and economic knowledge facilitates
a rigorous analysis of key value drivers, uncertainties, and risks that can
influence project development economics and viability.