Gasification Plants, Tar Sands Facilities, and Mineral Processing Plants
Long International personnel have been involved in numerous claims and project consulting assignments associated with gasification plants, tar sands, and mineral processing plants. Many of these projects have been located outside the United States.
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Alabama Provided litigation support, database management system development, and assessment of the technical design, cost and schedule overruns, and start-up problems of a coal gasification project. - Coke Gasification Plant
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Kansas Performed an analysis of alleged deficiencies in the design of a petroleum coke gasification and syngas plant, resulting in change orders, delay, and loss of productivity claims totaling $25 million against the owner of a refinery. The project involved the relocation of a coal gasification facility from California and redesign of the plant based on petroleum coke feed. - Mineral Processing Plants
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Colorado Developed cash flow economic evaluation computer models and prepared capital and operating cost estimates and economic analyses used in the negotiation of the $1.1 billion project loan guarantee for the Colony Shale Oil Project. Nevada Assisted equipment supplier in defending against a $10 million claim by the owner of a gold mine. The project involved the design and construction of a prototype gold ore processing plant. The owner sought recovery of costs associated with alleged breaches by client resulting from late and deficient proprietary engineering information, late delivery of proprietary equipment, and failure of equipment to perform as specified. Case was settled during arbitration with client paying no damages. Nevada In an International Chamber of Commerce, International Court of Arbitration, provided deposition testimony on schedule delay, loss of productivity, cost reporting, extra work, and damages claims of $50 million on the construction of a $150 million Refractory Ore Treatment Plant. The case was settled in arbitration with the defendant client paying no damages. - Tar Sands Facilities
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Canada Performed an analysis of a $200 million insurance claim for non-traditional coverages resulting from delays and cost overruns in the construction of a tar sands mine facility and upgrader unit in Alberta. Prepared expert witness reports in support of the ICC Arbitration. Canada Performed an analysis of a $500 million claim for business interruption losses due to delays to the start-up and commissioning of an Upgrader Refinery that was built to process synthetic crude oil from a tar sands production facility. The delays were allegedly caused by a fire at the tar sands production mine site, which delayed the transport of bitumen to the refinery through a 200-plus mile pipeline. Prepared detailed CPM schedule analyses and an expert witness report. Designated as a CPM expert witness in support of the ICC Arbitration in Alberta. Canada Lead cost and schedule consultant retained by a group of insurance companies to evaluate the reasonableness of a $200 million cost estimate and cost/schedule risks associated with the repair of fire damage to four electrostatic precipitators and enclosures in a large tar sands plant in Alberta. The engagement involved site visits and interviews, and the evaluation of rebuild cost and schedule estimates and supporting documentation, with particular emphasis on assumptions, construction means and methods, labor costs and productivity, field indirect costs, contingency, and expediting and delay costs. Final work products included written reports which addressed the bases for and reasonableness of the repair schedule and cost estimate, and the cost impact of several expedited repair schedule alternatives, and oral presentations to loss adjusters and insurance company representatives. Canada Provided contract/entitlement analyses, schedule review and risk assessment, for the owner, relative to the design, procurement and construction of a synthetic crude oil upgrader. Canada Performed an analysis of a major fire at an upgrader in Alberta that processed synthetic crude oil from a tar sands facility. Our client, a major construction company and its insurer, was defending against liability for property damage and business interruption damages amounting to $1 billion.