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Praxair to supply planned NWR refinery in Alberta with new air separation unit

The North West Redwater refinery is scheduled to start up in 2016. The NWR gasification process will consume oxygen to produce hydrogen, which is used to upgrade bitumen into diesel and other higher value hydrocarbon products. Initially, the refinery will convert 50,000 bpd of bitumen.

LNG 17: Global executives share new technologies, challenges of floating LNG

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Adrienne Blume

Executives from companies involved in floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) projects discussed the benefits, challenges, and technologies involved in the design of their FLNG vessels.

Atlas Pipeline adds Texas gas processing plants with Teak Midstream deal

Atlas Pipeline CEO Eugene Dubay said Teak Midstream's assets are new, highly efficient and are located in the heart of one of the most prolific plays in North America. The assets being acquired include two cryogenic processing plants and 265 miles of high-pressure, rich gas-gathering lines.

Praxair opens largest Bahrain air separation plant

Praxair's plant has the capacity to produce 350 tpd of oxygen, making it the largest air separation unit in Bahrain. The air separation unit will also produce liquid nitrogen, oxygen and argon to supply a diverse group of customers in the regional merchant market, including refineries and chemical plants.

Executives predict shale boom in Russia and China, but Europe lags behind

Torbjorn Tornqvist, chief executive of trading house Gunvor, said Wednesday it was clear that shale production on a scale similar to that in the US is possible in several of the world's biggest current energy producers and consumers -- but that Europe is unlikely to be transformed by it.

LNG 17: Top US consultant illustrates redrawn map for global gas business

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Adrienne Blume

The North American gas industry will change the LNG business model to some degree, Mr. Yergin noted, whether it is through the price of feedstocks such as shale gas or via LNG export pricing.

Williams, Shell launch US gas processing alliance

The new venture, Three Rivers Midstream, has signed a long-term fee-based dedicated gathering and processing agreement for Shell's production in the Pennsylvania area. The joint venture also plans to pursue gathering and processing agreements with other producers in the liquids-rich region.

UOP technology to remove acid gases for Petronas floating LNG in Malaysia

The PFLNG 1 facility, designed to extract natural gas from offshore wells and liquefy and store it for later transport, will use UOP's Amine Guard FS process to remove carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from the liquefied natural gas (LNG) feed streams. The FLNG unit is scheduled to start up by the end of 2015.

Air Products to supply LNG heat exchangers for Petronas expansion project

Air Products' SplitMR liquefaction process and technology was selected and will be supplied to the Petronas LNG Train 9 Project. This project will produce 3.6 million tpy of LNG and is an expansion of the existing Petronas LNG complex in Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Australia's Woodside shelves Browse LNG project

Gas from the Browse development, which also counts Shell, BP and Asian companies as shareholders, will no longer be piped to a processing facility at James Price Point on the Western Australia state coast. The development offers a sign that Australia's energy construction boom may be peaking.