Uprating a gas plant with sulphur recovery

Consolidating gas plants can require more flexibility in rate plant capacity

process flow diagram of an amine unitIn our current economic environment, operators are looking for ways to increase throughput and reduce operating costs even if it means consolidating some plants. Licenced capacity is a hurdle to such consolidation.

This major operator successfully received approval increase the rated inlet rates of his gas plant with no plant modifications.

You can see everything about his plant from flow diagrams to plot plans. In his application you can see the steps he used to justify it to the regulator. We found this information using AppIntel.

Dwindling gas production

With gas prices hovering about a dollar per mcf, there's a lot of gas shut-in. Major facility operators and midstream companies are hurting for throughput.

Most facility operating costs are fixed. So as throughput suffers, operating costs per unit of gas produced skyrocket.

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Tags: Facilities

  26 May 2016



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