SSOE Group
Improved plant performance. Reduced production costs. Increased safety. Lower installation costs. SSOE’s integrated project solution brings together the top echelon of both process and facilities engineers and ensures optimal plant design.

Project Profile: Chemical Facility Energy Assessment

For more than 20 years, SSOE has been providing a leading chemical manufacturer with quality process and facility engineering. When the client wanted to examine ways to decrease the energy consumption at its U.S. manufacturing facilities, they called upon SSOE’s energy management expertise.
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Project Profile: Energy Assessment

SSOE completed Phase 1 of an energy assessment for two of Marathon’s asphalt terminals. Marathon’s intention was to implement the lessons learned from these two terminals at other terminals without requiring in depth analysis at each terminal.
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Project Profile: Wastewater Separation for Chemical Process

With extensive expertise is chemical processing, SSOE proved integral to assisting the company in its efforts to enhance and improve the chemical process waste water system in its batch chemical process plant. The optimization project, led by SSOE experts, resulted in long-term success for the client through design of a simpler and more cost effective treatment system.
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Project Profile: New Specialty Chemical Plant

SSOE, the client’s engineering firm of choice for more than five years, performed comprehensive services on this new specialty chemical plant that produces components of high-performance electronics. Based on SSOE’s impeccable past performance from both a technical and client service standpoint, the client engaged SSOE for civil, structural, architecture, project management, mechanical, chemical process, estimating, cost control, and procurement. The facility comprises the following functions: administration, waste recycling, bulk storage, complex chemical production, and basic utilities.
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Project Profile: Process Upgrade to Offset Hazardous Gas Release

When this chemical client embarked on an EPA mandated upgrade at four of its manufacturing facilities, SSOE was enlisted to execute the industry-wide directive. The project required integration of a new agent into its insulation board processing systems, a formulation change intended to reduce emissions. SSOE’s extensive background in implementing process upgrade and modifications in the chemical industry proved integral to implementing the change. Putting multi-disciplined teams in place at each of the facilities, the firm ultimately helped the client save time and project costs had they conducted the upgrade internally, while simultaneously enhancing the existing process.
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Project Profile: Four Major Facility Expansion Projects

A chemical manufacturing client with whom SSOE had a 20+ year relationship, enlisted the firm for a series of projects to expand their facilities. Initial expansions involved capital investments of $50 million; subsequent expansions grew to over $2 billion in capital investment. SSOE provided frontend loading, detailed design, procurement, project controls and start-up support for these projects that involved complex and highly proprietary chemical process expansions as well as facility additions.
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