Q. What is the official name of your company?
A. ABUTEC Industries Inc. ABUTEC, an acronym for Advanced Burner Technologies, is a manufacturer of environmentally friendly combustion solutions. ABUTEC specializes in offering high-efficiency, low-emission burners and flares to various industries, including oil & gas (upstream and midstream), biogas, landfill gas, waste-water treatment, mine gas and many more. ABUTEC manufactures burners, enclosed combustors/flares, vapor combustors, incinerators and thermal oxidizers, all aimed at reducing emissions and increasing efficiency.
Q. What do you most want people to know about your company?
A. ABUTEC manufactures technology that focuses on clean emissions and assistance with regulatory compliance, backed up with unprecedented customer responsiveness.
Q. Where is your company located?
A. ABUTEC’s worldwide headquarters is located in Atlanta, Georgia, with regional offices and service hubs throughout the U.S.
Q. What year was the company founded and by whom?
A. ABUTEC was founded in 2007 by Andy Smith and Hans van der Pasch.
Q. What is your company’s primary business activity?
A. ABUTEC designs and manufactures emissions control devices, including flares, enclosed combustors, VRUs and oilfield services.
Q. Are there important projects the company is currently a part of or has done recently?
A. Upstream Highlight: The ABUTEC 200 has become an integral part of the emissions control process for larger multi-well pads, thanks to its 99 percent DRE. Six ABUTEC 200s are combined to serve as backup combustion devices on a 16-well site with additional storage tanks. These units provide the necessary DRE when the on-site VRUs are offline.
Midstream Highlight: ABUTEC provides unique combustion solutions for rail, truck and barge loading applications. Our High Temperature Flare (HTF) system is designed to maintain high destruction and removal efficiency, in spite of the varying waste stream gas quality during the loading process. The natural draft design of the HTF eliminates the need for a blower unit, resulting in lower operational cost, reduced maintenance and significantly lowers system total noise output.
Q. How many employees does your company have?
A. ABUTEC has grown to employ 72 individuals throughout our regional offices and service hubs located in Atlanta, Georgia; Gainesville, Georgia; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Denver, Colorado; Greeley, Colorado; Houston, Texas; Minot, North Dakota; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Q. Describe the equipment your company manufactures?
A. Product Spotlight: The ABUTECs: ABUTEC’s most popular emissions control devices are the ABUTEC 20, ABUTEC 100 and ABUTEC 200. With scalable flow rates of 0-20 MSCFD, 20-100 MSCFD and 100-200 MSCFD respectively, the line of ABUTECs has become a trusted device for sites across the U.S. Each unit is able to be paired with other systems, making them ideal for creating a system to fit each site’s unique needs.
Q. Is your company expanding any of its operations or locations?
A. ABUTEC is expanding our regional service reach by opening service hubs throughout the U.S., the next of which will be located in Greeley, Colorado. This service hub will strengthen service capability in northeast Colorado and provide excellent customer service to multiple existing clients in Colorado and Wyoming. The service hub will be used to coordinate safety meetings and fulfill unit and service needs. The hub is equipped with a yard large enough to house ABUTEC products, including the ABUTEC 20, ABUTEC 100 and ABUTEC 200, in addition to the new High Pressure/Low Pressure integrated solution.
The proximity of the new service hub to existing ABUTEC customers will provide even faster delivery of products and parts and will allow service technicians to quickly attend to equipment and service needs.
Q. Is the company changing any of its services or products?
A. With the number of multi-pad wells on the rise, ABUTEC has created a High Pressure/Low Pressure (HP/LP) Integrated Solution that serves as ABUTEC’s most versatile product.
The HP/LP system is ideal for facilities that require dual flow applications, since the package is able to handle high-flow, low-flow and variable-flow applications. ABUTEC has combined the power of the HP 1500 with the safety and reliability of the ABUTEC 20, 100 or 200 to create a system that can be used as a complete unit or as independent units. Another feature of the HP/LP system is its capability to handle a wide range of flow rates – everything from 5 MSCFD to 200 MSCFD.
In addition to its ideal use for dual flow applications, the HP/LP Integrated Solution has been used by ABUTEC customers for backup flaring when their plant was offline for maintenance or experiencing downtime. ABUTEC’s HP/LP solution is also EPA compliant and Quad O approved.
Q. What is your company’s main strength or its edge over the competition?
A. ABUTEC offers the flexibility of a small company, with the resources of a large corporation. Because we customize units based on individual sites and customer needs, ABUTEC is able to offer the products and services that our partners require.
Q. What new markets, clients or projects did your company attract in the last year?
A. ABUTEC has expanded our reach in the midstream oil & gas segment and offers solutions for rail, truck and now barge loading.
Q. What do you see as your company’s biggest challenge in the next five years?
A. ABUTEC is working to develop products that not only meet, but exceed existing and anticipated environmental regulations, providing our customers with long-term solutions for emissions control.
Q. Does your company have an anniversary or other landmark event coming up?
A. 2015 marks ABUTEC’s 5th anniversary of Bakken installs. ABUTEC has approximately 2,000 units installed in the Bakken, and continues to grow.
Q. What is the average length of time employee’s work for the company?
A. Although ABUTEC has only been in business for 7 years, our employee attrition is low and our commitment to and investment in our employees is high.
Q. Has your company been involved in any community projects or charity events?
A. ABUTEC was proud to partner with SM Energy for the “Big Sky Birds and Birdies” sporting clay shoot and golf scramble, benefitting the Montana Hope Project, which provides wishes to critically ill children in Montana.
Q. What is the address of your company’s Web site?
A. www.abutec.com
