Production • Processing • Handling
Scale-up for shale
Fig. 1. The €1.4 billion NGTL extension project will consist of approximately 260km of 48-inch diameter pipe.
From new pipelines to novel processing plants, the boom in US shale gas is driving investment in gas processing facilities there.
Desde nuevas tuberías a innovadoras planta de procesamiento, el boom de los yacimientos de gas en los EE. UU. está conduciendo las inversiones en instalaciones de procesamiento de gas a estas nuevas tecnologías.
Von neuen Pipelines bis zu neuartigen Aufbereitungsanlagen – der Schiefergas-Boom in den USA kurbelt dort Investitionen in Einrichtungen zur Gasaufbereitung an.
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2X Energy subsidiary Big Lake Fuels has been granted the required air permits to construct and operate a natural gas-to-gasoline
facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. Te permits, issued by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, are the first of their kind to allow for the construction and operation of a commercial-scale plant to convert natural gas into liquid transportation fuels. Te project will convert domestic natural gas into approximately 12,500 barrels per day of zero-sulphur, reformulated blendstock for oxygenate blending (RBOB) gasoline and/or commercial-grade methanol. G2X says it will use commercially
proven processes and the best available emission control technologies in both its methanol production and its methanol- to-gasoline conversion, which together comprise the industrial facility that will
produce both marketable methanol and unleaded automotive gasoline. Meanwhile, driven by an abundance of shale gas and the resulting expansion of North American natural gas reserves, G2X is creating a platform to expand the role of natural gas in the existing chemicals and transportation fuels market. Enterprise Products Partners’ plan to build a fully refrigerated ethane export facility on the Texas Gulf Coast has received a boost with the execution of long-term contracts to support the development of the facility. When it starts up in late 2016, the plant will have an aggregate loading rate of approximately 10,000 barrels per hour, or up to 240,000 barrels per day. “We are pleased to announce the successful development of our fully refrigerated ethane export facility, which will be the largest in the world,” said Michael Creel, CEO of Enterprise’s general partner. “We continue to receive
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