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Gas Processing/LNG

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Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Rhodes, Mike

Mid-January saw the continued decline of monthly average Brent crude oil prices, which fell $17/bbl from November to a monthly average of $62/bbl. The continual price decrease reflects US tight oil pr..

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Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

AVEVA NET software is cloud readyAVEVA has implemented a number of improvements to AVEVA NET, its information management software (Fig. 1). Customer feedback has shown that these improvements enhance ..

Matheson to supply gases for new Sasol cracker

Matheson has entered into an agreement with Sasol to supply tonnage oxygen and nitrogen to Sasol’s world-scale ethane cracker, which is part of an$8.1 billion expansion in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Greyrock, Nerd Gas to partner on GTL units in US

Through an affiliate, US GTL, the companies are working to ensure that GTL facilities can utilize Wyoming natural gas and produce clean transportation fuels for local consumption.

Shell opens new GTL base oil hub near Dubai

This new facility in Jebel Ali is Shell’s fourth GTL base oil storage hub alongside its existing hubs located in Houston, Texas; Hamburg, Germany; and Hong Kong.

Amec Foster Wheeler awarded work on new China coal-to-chemicals project

Amec Foster Wheeler will be part of an integrated project management team responsible for the management of the engineering, commercial, procurement, health and safety, quality and project controls activities.

Amec Foster Wheeler wins work on new Texas syngas-to-liquids project

The scope of work includes engineering design and definition work utilizing key process technology and equipment suppliers, as well as execution planning activities for the facility that will use biomass gasification and West Texas shale gas to feed a Fischer Tropsch unit to produce jet fuel.

ZeoGas picks Schneider Electric to automate new gas-to-gasoline plant

Through this collaboration, Schneider Electric will provide pre-FEED power and automation controls engineering and cost estimating support to help build ZeoGas’ first fuels manufacturing plant, and will act as the main electrical contractor and main automation contractor on the project.

Linde to purify helium for Weil plant in Canada

A contract to provide technology and a long-term supply agreement join Linde and Weil Group in the emerging helium market.

Maximize LPG recovery from fuel gas using a dividing wall column

GTC Technology US, LLC: Gentry, J. C.  |  Bhargava, M.  |  Nelson, C.  |  Siddamshetti, V.

Refiners are challenged to recover LPG from mixed fuel gas streams due to the difficulty of separating the lighter components from bulk gas. To maintain profitability, it is essential to direct all of the crude oil components to the optimum disposition. This practice is becoming more significant due to increasing LPG demand in some countries and the supply of lighter crudes in countries such as the US.