Petro-Techna

What Petro-Techna does

Petro-Techna International Ltd. is a privately held Canadian engineering firm founded in 1989 and headquartered in a LEED-certified facility at 8–31 Scarsdale Road, Toronto, Ontario. The company designs, fabricates, supplies, and commissions custom process separation and treatment equipment for the upstream and midstream oil and gas industry, serving IOC and NOC buyers, refineries, and petrochemical operators across North America (Canada, USA), MENA (Egypt, Libya, Algeria), Europe (Romania), South America (Argentina), and South Asia (Pakistan). Named customers include Waha Oil, OMV Petrom, Techint–ExxonMobil, PetroJet–NPC, Canadian Natural Resources, Petro-Canada, Zueitina Oil, Arabian Gulf Oil, Sirte Oil, and OGDCL. Headcount is reported at 51–100 employees.

The company's core product portfolio centers on separation and treatment equipment — electrostatic desalters, oil/gas/water separators, heater treaters, fired heaters, produced water treatment systems, and gas processing units. Its proprietary Multimode Ampere System (MAS) underpins the electrostatic desalter platform, with over 100 units installed worldwide. Equipment is engineered to API, ASME, and NACE standards and fabricated at approved facilities globally, with proprietary design content combined with outsourced manufacturing. Adjacent offerings include Modular Early Production Facilities (EPF) and Turnkey Solutions bundles.

Petro-Techna operates a project-based, custom-engineered business model. Pricing is quote-driven and tied to each project's scope, with revenue generated across equipment supply, engineering, procurement, and commissioning/field services. Go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales to oil majors and NOCs. The company maintains financial relationships with Export Development Canada (EDC) and TD Bank, received EDC ESG recognition in 2020, and pursues R&D through academic partnerships including a 2021 NSERC Engage Grant with Lambton College for membrane water-treatment research. Public revenue is not disclosed.

Name

Petro-Techna

Legal name

Petro-Techna International Ltd.

Website

https://petro-techna.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Petro-Techna International Ltd., founded in 1989 and headquartered in Toronto, designs, fabricates, and commissions custom process separation and treatment equipment for oil producers, refineries, and petrochemical operators worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Oil and Gas Process Separation Equipment

NAICS

Power Boiler and Heat Exchanger Manufacturing (332410), Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing (3339)

SIC

Oil & Gas Field Machinery & Equipment (3533)

akta.pro primary industry

Chemical Processing Equipment (Reactors, Mixers, Agitators) (IMAHAEAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Chemical & Petrochemical Plant Construction (IMAFADAA)

Keywords

• Oil and gas process equipment
• Electrostatic desalting systems
• Produced water treatment
• Oil water gas separation
• Petrochemical engineering services

Headquarters

HQ city

Toronto

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Equipment Supply and Fabrication: Design and supply of process equipment including electrostatic desalting units, separators, heater treaters, direct and indirect fired heaters, produced water treatment systems, and gas processing equipment. Fabrication of modular units at approved fabrication facilities worldwide.
2. Engineering Services: Complete engineering design for specialized process packages, plant design for Greenfield/Brownfield projects, engineering studies covering alternative process evaluations, feasibility studies, debottlenecking, and plant optimization.
3. Commissioning and Field Services: Start up and commissioning services for oil production fields, after-sales services, and field consulting services for operations auditing and production process improvement.
4. Procurement Services: Supply-chain management providing maximum customer service through procurement of materials and equipment for project execution.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Petro-Techna designs, engineers, fabricates, and commissions custom process separation and treatment equipment for the oil and gas industry. The company supplies electrostatic desalters, two- and three-phase separators, heater treaters, fired heaters, produced water treatment systems, and gas processing units, complemented by turnkey engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction management, and commissioning services. All commissioned packages carry a process guarantee.

Product overview

Petro-Techna is an engineering firm offering a comprehensive portfolio of process equipment and integrated solutions for the Oil & Gas industry. The product suite is organized into four main categories: Liquid Process (electrostatic desalters, separators, heater treaters, direct and indirect fired heaters), Water Process (produced water treatment solutions and integrated recovery plants), Gas Process (gas processing, sweetening, dehydration, and sulfur recovery), and Utilities/Auxiliaries (hot oil packages, chemical injection skids, vapor recovery). The company also provides turnkey solutions combining these products into complete modular early production facilities and brownfield optimization services. All equipment carries process guarantees and is designed to API, ASME, and NACE standards.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Electrostatic Desalter Electrostatic oil desalting units using AC and AC/DC grid systems and the proprietary Multimode Ampere System (MAS) for high-efficiency salt removal in upstream and downstream/refining applications. Achieves salt removal efficiencies exceeding 95% single stage and 99.5% two-stage, with 100+ units installed worldwide.
• Separators Two- and three-phase separators equipped with proprietary internals including inlet distributors, calming baffles, vane-type mist eliminators, vortex breakers, and mudwash/sandjet systems for upstream and early-production facilities.
• Heater Treater Oil conditioning and stabilization units combining heating with mechanical or electrostatic separation for early production facilities, with optimized fire tube design to eliminate flame impingements.
• Direct Fired Heaters Industrial heaters for refinery unit charge heaters, distillation column reboilers, and hot oil/glycol packages, designed to API 560/530 standards with rapid cycling ability and specialized metallurgy.
• Indirect Fired Heater Uniform heating units for thermally sensitive fluids with self-limiting film temperature, available as convective waste heat recovery type designs up to 80 MMBTU/hr capacity.
• Produced Water Treatment Solutions Comprehensive produced water treatment systems including primary (API/CPI/hydrocyclone separators), secondary (dissolved/induced gas flotation), and tertiary (oil removal filters) treatment options.
• Integrated Produced Water Treatment & Recovery Plants Complete modular plants for collection, treatment, and safe disposal of produced water with oil recovery and sour vapor emission elimination, capable of 30% or lower turndown capacity stable operation without operator intervention.
• Gas Processing Solutions Natural gas, associated gas, and refinery fuel gas processing including sweetening (chemical/physical absorption, molecular sieve), dehydration (LTS, TEG, adsorption), and hydrocarbon dew point control.
• Sulfur Recovery Unit Sulfur recovery solutions delivered through technology licensing partnerships, including technical evaluation, technology selection, and integrated plant delivery.
• Hot Oil Packages Closed loop heat transfer systems using horizontal helical coil technology with heating media selection based on process and environmental criteria for optimized CAPEX/OPEX.
• Chemical Injection Skids Chemical dosing packages for oil, water, and gas processing applications with standardized or custom designs supporting a wide range of industrial chemicals.
• Vapor Recovery Vapor recovery solutions for storage tanks, degassing, flare gas, and VOC/monomer recovery, with downstream options including membrane, activated carbon, and amine processes.
• Turnkey Solutions Integrated engineering solutions combining Petro-Techna's product lines for upstream, midstream, and downstream processing areas, with optimization based on decades of experience, delivered as a single one-stop-shop package.
• Modular Early Production Facility (EPF) Skid-mounted modular process packages for rapid assembly, installation, and commissioning from wellhead gathering through product separation and treatment to supporting utilities.
• Engineering Services Complete engineering design for specialized process packages, plant design for Greenfield and Brownfield projects, and engineering studies covering alternative process evaluations, feasibility studies, debottlenecking, and plant optimization.
• Commissioning and Start-Up Services Start-up and commissioning services for oil production fields, along with after-sales services for installed equipment.
• Procurement Services Supply-chain management providing procurement of materials and equipment for project execution to support project delivery.
• Field Services Field consulting services for operations auditing and production process improvement at client oil and gas facilities.
• Brownfield Solutions Customized design, planning, and execution services for brownfield projects including process additions, optimization of existing infrastructure, and strategic integration.

Quantifiable outcome

• Salt removal efficiency exceeding 95% for single stage and 99.5% for two-stage electrostatic desalting units
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Lambton College Research & Innovation DepartmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for sustainability research and development. Collaboration on two specific projects: (1) Development of advanced membrane-based water treatment process for produced water from petroleum industry - awarded NSERC Engage grant, and (2) Development of analytical software tool to track and mitigate carbon footprint.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/PTIL6
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/petro-techna

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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