Gas treatment
Definition Liquefaction refers to the physical transformation of gas into liquid. In the oil and gas industry this liquefaction of gas may be processed just by compression, just by refrigeration, or both in combination depending on the gas. Comments In most of the cases the gas liquefaction is performed for storage and transportation purpose. Previous […]
ENI and GDF-Suez combine FEED and EPC bids to speed up Indonesian Muara Bakau development After the successfully appraisal of the Jangkrik natural gas discovery, ENI and GDF-Suez intend to speed up the development of the Muara Bakau PSC, Kutei Basin, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Overall, in Indonesia, ENI is very active as it holds working interests […]
Atum discovery proves Rovuma prolific to Anadarko The Atum natural gas field is located approximately at 16 killometers distance from the previous Golfinho discovery to the Northwest within the Offshore Area 1 of the Rovuma Basin. In the Offshore Area 1 of the Rovuma basin, Anadarko Petroleum Company (Anadarko) and its partners share working interests as: […]
Aramco to develop deep water exploration and production Saudi Aramco plans to produce natural gas this decade off the Red Sea coast to increase domestic supplies to power generation and water desalination plants rising 7 percent a year. The program is designed to ensure to have ample spare capacity to meet underestimated energy demand. Saudi Aramco […]
Gas prices and high costs dictate to rethink Shtokman The foreseen capital expenditure for the Shtokman gas field development came up from first estimated $15 billion to $30-40 billion. This costs escalation is resulting from multiple factors including the combined target to produce 50/50 natural gas and LNG. This goal appeared to have a great impact on […]
Lukoil awarded $1West Qurna Phase 2 to Samsung Engineering Samsung Engineering officially signed a contract, worth approximately $1 billion, with LUKOIL Mid-East Ltd. (Lukoil) for the development of the West Qurna Phase 2 Contract Area and thereafter to provide assistance to LUKOIL with its carrying out of the commissioning and start up. This engineering contract covers: –Project Management […]
Petrofac won the first Oil Central Processing Facility (CPF) The Gazprom Neft (Gazprom) Badra oil field is located in the Wasit Province at the Southeast of Iraq. The Badra oil field stakeholders are Gazprom, the operator with 30% share, then KOGAS with 22%, Petronas with 15%, TPAO with 7.5% The project will reach its full […]
Definition LNG Train refers to the compressors train used in industrial process to convert natural gas into Liquefied Natural Gas, called LNG. Comments The process to convert natural gas into LNG is based on three steps, gas treatment, gas compression and refrigeration. Since the natural gas contains many non-methane gas and impurities and water which can […]
