Equipment

Hydrocarbon Recovery

SPEC engineers and fabricates dew point control, NGL and LPG recovery and cryogenic systems, sized to the feed composition and product targets.

Gas processing facility with recovery column, exchangers and air cooler bank
Project reference

Sour Gas Processing Plant for Dewan Petroleum Salsabil Gas Field, Pakistan 2008

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The recovery route follows the liquid recovery target and the available pressure differential.

Capabilities

Recovery Routes

J-T valve expansion

The simplest route, using available pressure drop across a Joule-Thomson valve to drop temperature.

Mechanical refrigeration

External refrigeration where the gas does not carry enough pressure to reach the target temperature.

Turbo expander

Expansion with work recovery, giving higher ethane and propane recovery where feed composition, pressure and product target justify cryogenic processing.

Low temperature separation

LTS units combining chilling and separation on a single skid.

Fractionation

Splitting the recovered liquid into ethane, propane, butane and natural gasoline (C5+) to product specification.

Sized to feed composition

Recovery targets and the inlet analysis set the configuration, not a standard model.

ASME Section VIII pressure equipment

Pressure vessels designed and built to ASME Section VIII in SPEC facilities.

Modular delivery

Assembled and tested before shipment where required by project scope, which can reduce site installation work.

Front-end engineering

FEED studies that define the process configuration and equipment selection before detailed engineering.

Applications

Where These Systems Are Used

Gas processing plant

Liquid recovery downstream of conditioning, where the recovery target and the value of the extracted liquids set the process route.

Gas processing facility

LPG production

Recovery and fractionation for saleable LPG. References include the 100 tonne a day Umutu facility in Nigeria and the 125 tonne a day Kenlyk facility in Kazakhstan.

Illustrative render of a turboexpander skid for deep liquid recovery

Project experience

See Our Solutions In Action

Dew point control and LPG recovery systems supplied within gas processing and LPG production facilities in Nigeria and Pakistan.

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Welders working on a pressure vessel at SPEC's Jebel Ali fabrication facility

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