Gas Processing/LNG
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.
PAA files for Pine Prairie expansion
PAA Natural Gas Storage, L.P. has filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for expansion of its Pine Prairie natural gas storage facility in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana.
Atlas Copco acquires gas treatment company
Atlas Copco Nederland B.V. has acquired Cirmac International B.V., a company specialized in biogas upgrading systems for the renewable energy industry and in gas treatment systems for the oil, gas and chemical industries.
New correlation for calculating natural gas Z-factor
Use these calculations for low absolute average error
Topsøe signs contract for sulfur treatment plant
Haldor Topsøe has signed a contract with the Henan Jinkai Group, China. The contract includes a sulfur management plant, which will play a key role in clean coal gasification. The
Excelerate Energy working on LNG import project in Argentina
Excelerate Energy L.P. has signed a term sheet with a consortium formed by Argentina’s ENARSA S.A. and YPF S.A. to develop a second Argentinean liquefied natural gas (LNG) importation facility in Escobar, approximately 30 miles north of Buenos Aires.
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.
Update from the National Petroleum Council’s September meeting
The National Petroleum Council (NPC) is a federal advisory committee to the US Secretary of Energy. The sole purpose of the NPC is to advise, inform and make recommendations to the Secretary of Energy, at his request, on matters pertaining to oil and natural gas or to the oil and gas industries.
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.

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