Meridian Energy Group Inc. has let a contract to GATE Energy, Houston, to deliver commissioning and start-up services for Meridian’s recently approved grassroots 49,500-b/sd high-conversion Davis refinery to be built in Billings County in the heart of southwestern North Dakota’s Bakken shale region (OGJ Online, Aug. 10, 2016).
As part of the letter of intent signed between the two companies, GATE will provide personnel for development planning and execution of the project, as well as its GATE Completion System (GCS), which will ensure the safe and efficient execution of the Davis refinery, on which civil construction recently began, Meridian said.
With official construction activities slated to begin in 2019, the Davis refinery is scheduled to be fully operational in 2020, Meridian said.
This latest contract follows Meridian’s award to SEH Design Build Inc.—a subsidiary of Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc., Bismarck, ND—to deliver site, civil design, and construction services for the project in July (OGJ Online, July 17, 2018).
The North Dakota Department of Health’s division of air quality previously issued Meridian the final permit-to-construct the project—under the first application in history for a full-conversion refinery of this size and complexity to seek and receive permitting to construct under classification as a synthetic minor source of air contaminants—in June (OGJ Online, June 13, 2018).
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