Engineering Services Capabilities

Canitan Black

CEG’s project-experienced personnel apply industry proven engineering practices while providing innovative solutions to meet and exceed our client’s expectations. We have a keen ability to help clients identify opportunities, issues and risks, and deliver tailored solutions.

​Expertise is offered to a variety of industries including (but not limited to) – Oil & Gas, SAGD, Petrochemical, Water Treatment, Tailings Handling, Manufacturing and Technology Development, to name a few. We offer a full scope of engineering services from conceptual and feasibility studies, to multidiscipline detailed engineering and construction support. Leveraging the diversity of our professional team, we bring insight and innovation to our projects, providing effective and novel solutions. Some of our key engineering services are as presented below:

​Feasibility Studies

CANITAN Engineering Group provides comprehensive feasibility studies to help clients maximize their capital investments and maintain their competitive advantage. Specifically, we offer expert review of mining processes, waste-to-energy processes, refining processes, chemicals and petrochemicals, gas processing including gas-to-liquid and coal conversion processes. Studies offered include:

  • Feasibility studies (technical and/or economic)
  • Optimization studies
  • Site evaluations and selections
  • Capital cost estimates
  • Yield improvement
  • Feed and/or product storage and distribution
  • Reliability and availability studies
  • Energy conservation studies
  • Revamp and de-bottlenecking studies
  • Master planning
  • Technology evaluation
  • HAZOP studies
  • Safety audits
  • Environmental studies

FEED to Detail Design

CANITAN Engineering Group has extensive experience preparing Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) packages (FEL I, II and III) for numerous clients. Specifically, CANITAN Engineering Group can provide:

  • Conceptual design
  • Process simplification
  • Economic analysis
  • Technology evaluation/selection
  • Site selection/master planning
  • Facilities planning
  • Permitting studies
  • Energy optimization/waste minimization
  • Value engineering for lowest lifecycle cost


Detail Engineering/Design

CANITAN Engineering Group combines extensive engineering, design, consulting, and technical resources to provide practical and innovative solutions to meet clients' detail design needs. CANITAN Engineering Group manages detail design of capital projects of various sizes in a host of industries including chemical, specialty chemical, refining, power and manufacturing. In addition, CANITAN Engineering Group offers strong process design capabilities, high-tech facility design, advanced engineering tools, 3D applications and custom technologies. Specifically, we provide technical solutions for the following engineering and design disciplines:

  • Process
  • Civil/Structural
  • Construction Management
  • Electrical/Control Systems
  • Mechanical/Piping/HVAC
  • Project Controls
  • Project Management

​Project Management

CANITAN Engineering Group manages the competing demands of safety, quality, scope, schedule and cost to deliver "best-in-class" project management services to our clients. CANITAN Engineering Group project managers have a proven track record of executing small to mid-sized, cost-driven projects to enhance client facilities in order to optimize production by utilizing the following:

  • Exceptional safety standards
  • Disciplined work processes
  • Detailed execution plans
  • State-of-the-art tools
  • Captured lessons learned
  • Focused training programs

Project Controls

CANITAN Engineering Group has complete project controls capabilities to support client needs ranging from the front-end conceptual phase to funding, detailed engineering, procurement and construction. We utilize industry "best practices" and the latest technology enablers to ensure client project cost and schedule targets are met. Specifically, we offer the following:

  • Scope Development and Funding Services
    • Establish control budget and target schedule
    • Develop conceptual TIC estimate and cost trend as scope definition progresses.
    • Develop funding grade TIC estimate
  • Project Execution Services
    • Establish detailed control budget and target schedule.
    • Conduct Interactive Planning Session.
    • Develop detailed CPM schedule
    • Measure productivity and schedule performance throughout design and construction.
    • Monitor changes to control base, actual cost, progress and schedule.
    • Identify trends and anomalies
    • Assist in identifying and mitigating risk
  • Project Closeout Services
    • Recap project history and cost


Environmental Consulting

CANITAN Engineering Group provides full environmental consulting services, including technical and compliance overview for all CANITAN internal engineering projects and for clients requiring environmental assistance. Up-to-date with Government, and local regulations, CANITAN Engineering Group makes each client aware of all applicable environmental issues so that their business decisions regarding each project include the cost and schedule related to permitting to ensure current and future compliance.