Fields that are in the late stages of development have low potential and opportunities to solve the accumulated technical and environmental problems due to insufficient profitability of their operation, lack of sources of financing. This fully…
Nigeria is the 2nd biggest natural gas producer in Africa, with much of it exported as LNG, some re-injected while a small fraction serves the domestic market. The volume supplied to the domestic market plays an outsized role in the energy mix and…
Unprocessed petroleum hydrocarbons often contain high concentrations of mercury (Hg), which can severely damage the metal components of a processing plant and pose a health risk to the workers and the natural environment. Although Hg removal units…
The emphasis of this paper is to show the existence of some non-energy benefits that can be taken into account in an energy efficiency investment aimed to reduce energy consumption and increase production and product quality in an oil and gas…
This life cycle analysis (LCA) evaluates life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with a system that produces both natural gas and crude oil. Two systems are defined: System 1, which independently produces natural gas and oil, and System…
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the process of natural gas development is an important emission source in the fossil energy system. Research on greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas system is still in its infancy in developing countries…
Nigeria is the 2nd biggest natural gas producer in Africa, with much of it exported as LNG, some re-injected while a small fraction serves the domestic market. The volume supplied to the domestic market plays an outsized role in the energy mix and…
Gas processing is an independent dynamically developing industry whose role is growing constantly in connection with exploration and development of new gas and oil fields and increase of volume of recovered hydrocarbons subjected to processing. For…
In recent years, relevant authorities have successively issued strict control indicators on the tail gas emission of sulfur recovery facilities, so standard tail gas emission from the sulfur recovery facilities in natural gas purification plants is…
This paper presents modeling a novel approach to determine the impact of implementing smart completions on water injectors located near the periphery of the gas cap and on gas producing wells situated in the gas cap of a giant Middle East onshore…
The petroleum industry is receiving increased interest in subsea oil and gas processing as it is running out of easily accessible oil and gas reservoirs. Membrane processes fulfill subsea design requirements with a simple and compact design. However,…
In offshore oil-and-gas fields with high CO2 content, oil-and-gas processing entails recycling CO2 to the field for enhanced oil recovery. Despite blocking fossil CO2 ingress into the biosphere and improving oil production, this entails increasing…
Supersonic separator is investigated via process simulation for treating CO2 rich (>40%) natural gas in terms of dew-points adjustment and CO2 removal for enhanced oil recovery. These applications are compared in terms of technical and energetic…
Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) is the liquid product obtained from the bottom of the demethanizer in a gas processing plant. It consists of ethane, propane, butanes and natural gasoline (heavier hydrocarbons). Here in USA, the gas processors in the…
The present study evaluates the potential of clean natural gas dehydration using nonequilibrium condensations in high-pressure supersonic flows. A computational fluid dynamics model is developed to study the formation of massive nanodroplets due to…
Fields that are in the late stages of development have low potential and opportunities to solve the accumulated technical and environmental problems due to insufficient profitability of their operation, lack of sources of financing. This fully…
Remediation of toxic mercury emissions in the form of elemental mercury (Hg) from the well head has become a dire necessity in the fast paced natural gas processing industries, as even low levels of mercury can damage the cryogenic aluminum heat…
Drastic growth in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the last few decades, due mainly to the development of industrial activities, is one of the most important parameters that greatly influence global warming and climate change. While oil and gas…
Studies on how to reduce the methanol injection amount in a natural gas processing plant, how to improve the methanol utilization rate, and how to cut down the energy consumption of a methanol recovery unit, are of great realistic value for the Yulin…
BXY field is the largest gas field of India, located in offshore, 80 km from Mumbai city. The field produces about 32.5 MMscmd sour gas using two process complexes BXA & BXB. The field was put on production in September'1988 with initial gas…
The role of natural gas in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and advancing renewable energy resource integration is undoubtedly critical. With the progress of hydrocarbons exploration and production, the target zones become deeper and the…
Sweetening, dehydration, natural gas liquid (NGL) recovery, and sale gas compression are four major treatment stages for the general natural gas processing. Here, a comprehensive gas processing plant (CGPP) coupling sweetening, dehydration, NGL…
Processing natural gas, as a widely used source of energy in our life, is imperative to eliminate the impurities in order to make it consumable. So, appropriate modeling of different units in a real gas processing plant (GPP) is an essential research…
In offshore oil-and-gas fields with high CO2 content, oil-and-gas processing entails recycling CO2 to the field for enhanced oil recovery. Despite blocking fossil CO2 ingress into the biosphere and improving oil production, this entails increasing…
Among all fossil fuels, natural gas is the most environmentally friendly one. It is no doubt that natural gas will become a major clean energy resource worldwide in the coming decades. Increase in the price of energy sources has caused cryogenic…
Supersonic separators offer a cleaner offshore processing of natural gas with carbon dioxide content from deep-water oil-gas fields. Conventional offshore gas processing comprises water dew-point adjustment via glycol-absorption, hydrocarbon…
Production of natural gas is the first step in the value chain that takes gas from the reservoir to the customer (typically at a burner-tip). An integral and essential part of this value chain is the midstream sector. Midstream refers to the…
Nigeria is the 2nd biggest natural gas producer in Africa, with much of it exported as LNG, some re-injected while a small fraction serves the domestic market. The volume supplied to the domestic market plays an outsized role in the energy mix and…
Approximately 40% of current global natural gas resources have high H2S and CO2 concentrations. The H2S concentration in Middle East gas reservoirs can potentially reach up to 30 mol%. H2S is toxic
Despite of its popularity as cleaner fuel natural gas exist in the ground occasionally contaminated with high contents of acid gases. Venting the acid gases from the resource is somehow unviable in the near future while many countries all over the…
The Brazilian offshore pre-salt cluster is one of the most important recent discoveries of hydrocarbon resources in the world. These fields normally present high CO2 content (more than 10%) and also high Gas Oil Ratio (GOR), thus might limit the oil…
The present study evaluates the potential of clean natural gas dehydration using nonequilibrium condensations in high-pressure supersonic flows. A computational fluid dynamics model is developed to study the formation of massive nanodroplets due to…