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Gas Sweetening Technologies
If you're not familiar with how natural gas is processed, you may be tempted to believe it can simply be captured from the earth, moved through pipelines, and directed to your home or business. However, just like oil, numerous processes must occur to ensure the final...
The Importance of Fractionation to NGL Production
Natural gas is more than just clean-burning methane; when extracted from the ground it also contains other components that can removed and processed as natural gas liquids (NGLs). We know these final products as ethane, propane, and butane among others. But how are...
Talk on the US Crude Export Ban Heating Up
In 2014, if you entered “crude export ban” into a search engine, it generated pages of recent news stories, white papers, and editorials on the topic as it relates to the United States. "Cheap gas could kill U.S. oil export ban," said CNN. The Aspen Institute...
LNG and the Midstream Market
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) has commercially been produced and distributed since the mid- to late-1960s, providing a source of energy to people who had not previously utilized it. This production and distribution chain falls firmly in the midstream market, which...
Extracting NGLs Using Cryogenic Processing
Heating and cooling is used in many of the processes that make up the production and refining of oil and gas, including fractionation and adsorption. Extracting natural gas liquids (NGLs) like ethane and propane from natural gas streams is no exception. In particular,...