Gas to liquids (GTL)
Petrofac to manage Sajaa gas plant in UAE
Petrofac has a contract with the government of Sharjah, UAE, to take over operational responsibility and facilities management of the Sajaa gas plant and related assets, located approximately 30km from the commercial centre of Sharjah, UAE.
Gulf Coast Fractionators expanding its natural gas liquids fractionation facility
Gulf Coast Fractionators, a partnership among ConocoPhillips, Devon Energy Corp. and Targa Resources Partners LP announced plans to expand the capacity of its natural gas liquids fractionation facility located in Mont Belvieu, Texas.
Altra Energy offers gas processing expertise in Algeria
Altra Energy has won an open tender for a capacity trial of the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria.
Bixby Energy Systems’ new liquefaction technology
Bixby Energy Systems, Inc. has added carbon liquefaction technology to its energy portfolio, which when commercialized, will allow the company to produce both synthetic natural gas and light sweet crude oil from coal without the need to burn the coal and significantly reducing greenhouse gases.
Pall brought on board for UAE natural gas plant
Pall Corp. has been contracted to supply critical enabling technologies for the Habshan 5 natural gas treatment plant being constructed by Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd. (GASCO) in the UAE. A joint venture of Tecnimont S.p.A. and JGC Corp has ordered Pall SepraSolTM liquid/gas coalescer systems, filters, porous metal high flow elements and activated carbon units for the approximately $5 billion processing plant.
Optimize operating parameters of absorbers/strippers in gas plants
Better recovery definition of C3s and C4s from gas absorber/stripper can lower costs
Siemens to work on NGL plant in UAE
Siemens Energy has been awarded a $40 million project in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to engineer and supply an integrated power solution for a natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation plant. The customer is a joint venture between Petrofac and GS E&C on behalf of Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd. (GASCO), responsible for the fractionation of natural and associated gas from onshore oil operations in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Siemens will be the main electrical contractor for GASCO’s Ruwais 4th NGL train, located in the city of Ruwais, UAE. The train is scheduled to go into operation in March 2012.
Bixby Energy Systems sells devolitization units in China
Bixby Energy Systems, through its Chinese partner, Global Partners United, LLC (GPU), has received two additional orders for its patent-pending coal-to-gas devolitization units. The first will be shipped to a methanol plant in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, to provide methane for the production of methanol. The unit will be operated through a joint venture with GPU and Ordos I-Valley, an industrial technology provider. The City of Ordos sits on about one-sixth of the total reserves of usable coal in China.
Improve overpressure protection system for LNG
Relief events require better planning to ensure safe plant operation
How to buy glycol dehydrators
Purchasing with a better understanding of dehydrator operations can reduce costs for capital investment, operation and maintenance
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