-
Frequently Asked Questions: Construction
Q1: What construction services does BCCK provide “Beyond the NRU”? BCCK delivers full-scope facility construction across oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, and water treatment. Services span civil engineering, structural steel and pipe fabrication/installation, construction management, full turnkey plant installation, equipment setting, pressure testing, electrical and instrumentation, QA/QC documentation, plant maintenance, and complete commissioning/shutdown support.
-
Nitrogen, the Achilles Heel of LNG Efficiency: How NRUs Solve Critical Industry Challenges
How can LNG producers overcome the challenges of nitrogen while optimizing operations and guaranteeing safety? The answer lies in Nitrogen Rejection Units (NRU), a critical component for ensuring the efficiency, safety and reliability of modern LNG facilities. Nitrogen presents serious issues that impact the heating value, liquefaction process, storage and transportation safety of LNG. Left
-
Understanding NiTech® NRU Styles and Applications
NiTech® Nitrogen Rejection Units (NRUs) are engineered to effectively separate nitrogen from hydrocarbons across diverse applications. These systems are widely used in the oil and gas industry, biogas processing and LNG facilities. With three primary configurations—single column, dual column and ULM (Ultra Low Methane) models—NiTech® NRUs offer tailored solutions for varying operational needs. This article
-
BCCK’s Brennan Heiser Featured in March 2025’s American Oil & Gas Reporter
BCCK Senior Process Engineer Brennan Heiser’s expert insights on Emissions Data & Control have been featured in the March issue of the American Oil & Gas Reporter! This piece explores actionable strategies for managing emissions while achieving broader operational goals. It’s an essential read for those looking to stay ahead in an industry increasingly focused
-
EPA Proposes Stringent Methane Emissions Regulations, BCCK Unveils Innovative Solution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently issued proposed regulations that will sharply reduce emissions of methane from oil and natural gas operations, signaling a heightened focus on environmental sustainability and emissions control. Under these regulations, facilities emitting over 25,000 metric tons of CO₂ will be subject to annual Waste Emissions Charges (WEC), aimed at
-
BCCK’s Success with Repeat Business – How the Company Keeps and Nurtures its Clients
Q&A with Amy Ontiveroz, Director of Project Management, Midland, TX BCCK has been awarded numerous contracts recently for its patented NiTech® Nitrogen Rejection Units (NRUs) – many of which were designed for the same customer. Their newest project award, the NiTech® Style Dual Tower NRU to be located in West Texas, utilizes cutting-edge technology to
-
Removing Nitrogen and Adding Value to Landfill Renewable Natural Gas
BCCK’s Greg Hall explains how BCCK’s NiTech® Nitrogen Rejection Unit (NRU) was designed to remove nitrogen from methane gas collected from landfill sites, supporting the production of saleable natural gas for multiple applications. Landfill gas is generated as a natural result of the decomposition of organic material in landfill sites via evaporation of volatile organic
-
Methane Emissions and Landfill Gas
For years environmental experts warned of the importance of reducing our carbon footprints, but there’s a new chemical threat that’s far more dangerous: methane. Methane emissions are more than 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. That makes them a major contributor to global warming and air pollution. Methane emissions are also linked to significant respiratory
-
BCCK Expands and Hires in The Woodlands, Texas
BCCK’s expansion in the Houston area is a key marker in the company’s growth strategy, increasing BCCK’s ability to service both existing and future markets. A new office is up and running in The Woodlands. Complementing the company’s capabilities already in place at the corporate headquarters in Midland, Texas, the new office is enabling BCCK
-
Get the Best of Both Worlds with C2R-Flex
BCCK’s patented technology, C2R-Flex™, is an NGL extraction process that allows for maximum margins for the customer, despite the ethane liquid market. If the recovered component of ethane is negative in value when sold as a liquid product compared to the BTU value of ethane, then the producer will want to reject the ethane component
-
NiTech® Style III: Simple, Flexible, Efficient
BCCK designed NiTech® as a nitrogen rejection technology that eliminates cryogenic rotating equipment and allows for a wide variation of inlet nitrogen concentrations. Cryogenic rotating equipment is consistently responsible for facility downtime and excessive operating expense due to its high power consumption and maintenance requirements. Furthermore, NiTech® features a simple process design requiring minimal operator
-
Easy as EPC
The world is feeling the effects of low commodity prices with respect to oil and natural gas. For those that depend on these commodities to run their business, it is obviously a very tough and trying time. Current crude pricing in the US is trending toward US$30/bbl, with natural gas prices consistently staying below US$3/dth.
-
Nitrogen Rejection with Integrated High NGL Extraction
Estimates place as much as 25% of the natural gas in the United States out of specification with regard to nitrogen content. Typically, a processor can expect the pipelines to require less than 3.0 mole percent nitrogen in their natural gas stream. With a decline in conventional natural gas sources and with a recent increase in political desire
-
Nitrogen Separation Technologies
Nitrogen Separation Technologies: Best Served Hot or Cold? Today’s market of sustainable high gas prices and dwindling reserves has caused producers to consider non-traditional sources of revenue generation. Once considered trash gas or a waste stream, high nitrogen reserves are now being reexamined as economically viable. In the past, smaller gas wells that tested high in nitrogen were simply
-
NiTech® Nitrogen Rejection is Pipeline Solution
BCCK’s NiTech® Nitrogen Rejection Process Provides Solution to Meeting Tighter U.S. Pipeline Restrictions As the demand for natural gas continues to escalate in the United States and around the globe, unconventional gas sources are receiving more attention as viable energy options. Global environmental pressure is fueling demand for natural gas as a clean-burning, environmentally friendly power
-
NiTech® Nitrogen Rejection Technology
NiTech® Nitrogen Rejection Technology: Efficiency Without the Complexity Typically Associated with Nitrogen Rejection Gregory L. Hall, P.E.BCCK Engineering, Inc. In 1994, a new technology for separating nitrogen from natural gas was introduced with a full-scale processing plant located near Mist, Oregon. Several years of research and development by BCCK Engineering, Inc. preceded the installation of the facility. Prior to the
-
BCCK’s NiTech® NRU Technology Proven NRU Technology for the Gas Industry
BCCK’s NiTech® NRU Technology Proven NRU Technology for the Gas Industry View the presentations
