Environmental considerations are an integral part of virtually every Mustang project. Protection of the water, land and air surrounding the facility must be taken into consideration, and necessary precautions planned for, before the project is allowed to proceed. Working closely with the appropriate Mustang business unit, its project disciplines, and regulatory agencies, its environmental specialists can help secure the necessary environmental permits in a timely fashion to keep the client’s project moving forward. The effort starts early in the project, often in the pre-concept phase where Mustang prefers to become involved. Using its team of experienced environmentalists and highly trained technicians, Mustang helps determine a project’s direction with its capability to conduct comprehensive and meaningful studies. The diverse studies cover a wide range of areas including waste management, greenhouse gas emissions, risk assessment, ventilation, noise, plume and vapor dispersion, flare direction and blast potential.

Many recent projects are notable and unusual. For instance, the environmental group conducted sophisticated computational fluid dynamic (CFD) studies at a gas processing plant to determine if water vapor discharge from cooling towers at the plant would enter the intakes at the adjacent fin fan motors of proposed new cooling towers, causing ice build up in freezing temperatures. The study graphically determined the needed spacing between the old and the new towers.

Mustang’s environmental team conducted a CFD study on an eight pile platform being designed to evaluate the risks to personnel on the facility and in the crew quarters from diesel engine exhaust plumes and emergency vent stack emissions. The study further evaluated the potential impact to the platform structure by unburned vapors discharged to the atmosphere.

At an LNG receiving terminal, the team provided multiple siting studies to determine a thermal exclusion zone within the facility’s property line. It further conducted vapor cloud dispersion studies at the facility and potential blast risk studies to determine the ‘what if’ impact should pipelines rupture in particular locations. Lastly, at the same location, the team conducted noise studies at 64 points around the facility, graphically producing isopleths to show decibel levels at varying distances from the plant.