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Gas Processing/LNG

Air Liquide opens new North Dakota nitrogen plant

The use of liquid nitrogen and carbon dioxide in the exploration process can displace the use of water by upwards of 50% and offers production and environmental benefits to traditional methods.

EMGC ’14: Gas infrastructure expansions require reliability, diversity — experts

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Adrienne Blume

Executives gave brief reviews of various gas composition characteristics, thermodynamic technologies for gas processing, and the basic operational flow for a typical gas processing plant's main functions—acid gas removal, dehydration and natural gas liquids (NGL) removal.

EMGC ’14: Gas executives outline priorities to succeed on gas transportation fuels

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Adrienne Blume

To promote market penetration of natural gas-based transportation fuels, fueling station networks, custom-made vehicles, and gas-based fuels must be simultaneously available. Government incentives, regulations and tax advantages will also be required, according to panelists.

EMGC ’14: Israeli, Cypriot gas leaders target market flexibility, logistics expansion

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Adrienne Blume

The Israeli and Cypriot perspectives examined regulatory, political, financial and logistical opportunities and challenges associated with ongoing and potential gas infrastructure projects.

EMGC ’14: Noble Energy CEO outlines Tamar, Leviathan development plans

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Adrienne Blume

Noble Energy's customer base in the Eastern Med has more than doubled over the last two years, to approximately 15 buyers. The power generation market in the Eastern Med also continues to grow.

Scott Safety unveils new universal gas detector

Meridian features hot-swappable plug-and-play sensors that make it easier to replace parts in hazardous locations, without the need to power down the instrument. The toxic and oxygen sensors are range-agnostic, allowing for a change in sensor range, without recalibration.

Gazprom seals financing for Baltic, Vladivostok LNG

Gazprom will be the majority shareholder in the project companies to implement the Baltic LNG and Vladivostok LNG projects. Gazprombank will have a shot to acquire a stake in the project companies.

Shell starts commercial US output of new motor oil made from natural gas

Shell refers to its novel motor oil process as PurePlus technology, a patented process of converting natural gas into a clear base oil, which is the main component of motor oils.

Kuwait taps Foster Wheeler for engineering design on new LNG terminal

The new terminal will have a design send-out capacity of approximately 1,500 million standard cubic feet per day of gas, with four full-containment LNG storage tanks, each of 180,000 cubic meters.

Total picks Technip to debottleneck gas processing plant for Brunei LNG

This project aims at the modification of the onshore facilities as well as the construction of a new onshore pipeline, in order to transport Maharaja Lela & Jamalulalam South gas to the Brunei LNG plant.