Boutique LNG Business
John Sheffield, John M Campbell, UK
The production of LNG on a small scale has been a technology practiced for more than 70 years and over the last 10 years ...
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Carbon Capture and Storage: The “Storage” challenges
John H Hargreaves, PSN, UK
Carbon capture and storage is seen as one of the key future technologies to meet the increasing International pledges of reductions in greenhouse gases. There ...
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China - a Threat or an Opportunity?
Colin Woodward, Woodward International, UK.
China cannot be ignored. The world’s most populous nation, with a growth rate (until 2008), consistently around 10%pa, impacts on our lives daily ...
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Design Considerations of Water Wash Installations.
Carlos Frey, Huntsman Corporation, USA
This work is sponsored by the Gas Processors Association Technical Committee Section A. The original purpose was to gather recommendations and considerations from member companies ...
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Expectations of an Acoustics Consultant
Ken Marriott, ICTC Ltd., UK
If the need for acoustics has not been considered before or during a project, this can at best result in delays and at worst result ...
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Floating LNG - The Challenges of a Flexible Solution
Neil Rimmer, FLEX LNG, UK
One of the main advantages of floating LNG is the ability to move between different fields. However, as LNG plants tend to be very composition ...
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Fundamentals of Global LNG - a Commercial Perspective
Graham Hartnell, Poten & Partners, UK
The presentation will provide an introduction to the current fundamentals of the global LNG industry, and give Poten's view on the structural factors that ...
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Gas Dehydration and TEG Regeneration in the Kashagan Oil Field – A Design Challenge Overview
Mauro Alberto Galbiati, SIIRTEC NIGI S.p.A, Italy
The aim of this paper is to present the challenging aspects that the design of a relatively well-known and open-art industrial ...
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GCV, WI, ICF or SI
David Weeks, M.W. Kellogg, UK
As supplies of natural gas from the North Sea continue to dwindle, the UK Government is seeking to maintain energy security by diversifying the ...
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Industrial Operation of HYSWEET, a New Hybrid Solvent for Improved Mercaptan Removal
Renaud Cadours, TOTAL, Paris, France
Removing mercaptans from sour natural gas is a challenge, particularly with more stringent commercial gas specifications. Amines have been extensively used for the removal of ...
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Necessity is the Mother of Invention A Versatile Design for a Dew Point Control Plant
Martín Raventos, Pablo Luraschi, Mariela Arduino, and Marco Bergel; Tecna S.A., Argentina
This paper describes Tecna’s approach for the provision of a natural gas dew point control ...
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Optimising Design and Maximising Performance of Complex Integrated Asset Systems Using OPTAGON(TM)
Neil Wragg, GL Industrial Services, UK
The paper will describe how GL’s OPTAGON Monte Carlo simulation software is now regarded as a valuable tool in optimising the design and ...
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Pitfalls in the Design and Operation of Mol Sieve Units for the Removal of Water and Mercaptans
Kees Smit, Shell Global Solutions, Netherlands
Molecular sieves can be used in a temperature-swing adsorption process downstream an amine or physical solvent to remove water traces of mercaptans and other ...
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Relieving the Pressure of Flare System Design
Brian Marshall, Softbits Consultants and Massimiliano Sed, Technip Italy
Designing, rating or debottlenecking of Flare systems can be a complicated and time consuming process. Combining, maintaining and updating relief source ...
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Simultaneously Improving Integrity and Reducing Cost on a BP Gas Terminal
Dave Burgess, ABB Engineering Services, UK
The paper is based on a real case study at a BP European Gas Terminal, where integrity and financial benefits were gained concurrently from ...
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Technical Aspects of Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Safety
Paul Clinton, Shell Global Solutions, Netherlands
Carbon dioxide pipelines have been in use for more than thirty years, and most of their special technical design issues have been identified. However ...
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