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NEW IN GAS PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
T. CAMPBELL, Associate Editor
Fincantieri begins
construction
on largest U.S.
LNG barge
Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding
has begun construction on the
largest LNG bunkering barge ever
built in the U.S.
Bay Shipbuilding is expected
to complete construction on
the barge in late 2023 under
contract with Crowley, the largest
independent operator of tank
vessels in the U.S. Crowley will
operate the vessel under a longterm
charter with Shell.
The 416-ft vessel, which will
have the capacity for 12,000 m3
(3.17 MMg) of LNG, will be the
largest Jones Act-compliant
vessel of its kind, and the second
Jones Act-compliant bunker
barge Shell has under a time
charter in the U.S.
Serving the U.S. East Coast,
the vessel will be used to help
expand current LNG network
capacity and meet demands for
cleaner energy sources for ships.
NEC, University
of S. Alabama
ink agreements
on CO2
capture
technology
Norton Engineering
Consultants Inc. (NEC) has
entered license agreements with
the University of South Alabama
(USA) to exclusively produce
and supply non-volatile aqueous
ionic amines (AIMs) for general
use and to incorporate AIMs into
processes for CO2
capture from
combustion sources, including
NEC's proprietary flue gas
scrubbing technology.
NEC and USA intend to
introduce this technology to
industrial clients in the oil refining,
petrochemical, manufacturing
and power industries to reduce
emissions of CO2
and possibly
other greenhouse gases (GHGs).
Linde Engineering begins plant for extracting H2
from natural gas pipelines
Linde Engineering has started the world's first full-scale pilot plant in
Dormagen, Germany, to showcase how hydrogen (H2
is blended with
) can be separated from
natural gas streams using Linde's HISELECT powered by Evonik membrane
technology.
The process is a key enabler for scenarios in which H2
natural gas and transported via natural gas pipelines. The blended gas can
consist of between 5% and 60% H2
has a concentration level of up to 90%. When further processed with Linde Engineering's pressure swing
adsorption technology, a purity of up to 99.9999% can be achieved.
Baker Hughes,
EGPC to
collaborate on fl are
recovery initiative
Atlas Copco to supply CO2
compressor
to biofuels plant project in Europe
Atlas Copco Gas and Process will be supplying CO2
compression
equipment to a renewable biofuels plant project in Europe. The
equipment will be used in an 820,000-tpy biofuels facility, located at
the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
The facility will be among Europe's largest plants to produce
sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), renewable diesel and renewable
naptha made from biowaste. A facility of this size can produce enough
renewable diesel to avoid 2.8 MMtpy of CO2
of taking more than 1 MM European cars off the roads.
In addition to the fuel production, an essential building block of
Shell's endeavor is the carbon capture and pipeline transport of CO2
A byproduct from different plant processes, including blue H2
.
, the CO2
will be compressed to a pressure of 42.5 bar by the Atlas Copco Gas
and Process' five-stage turbocompressor. The machine is designed to
compress 43.5 tph.
Expected to start production in 2024, the new facility will help
both the Netherlands and the rest of Europe in meeting internationally
binding emissions reduction targets. It will produce low-carbon fuels
such as renewable diesel from waste in the form of used cooking oil,
waste animal fat and other industrial and agricultural residual products,
using technology developed by Shell.
Gazprom completes feasibility study
for Soyuz Vostok gas pipeline project
Gazprom has signed a statement on the results of the consideration of the feasibility study for the
Soyuz Vostok gas trunkline construction project. As per the feasibility study, the pipeline will stretch for
962.9 km in Mongolian territory, the pipes will be 1,400 mm in diameter, and five compressor stations will
be installed. The scope of works performed as part of the feasibility study, which includes the calculation
of investment and operating costs, is extensive enough for the study to serve as front-end engineering and
design (FEED) documents. Mongolian companies performed the required onsite surveys, engineering and
environmental mapping and route analysis for the Soyuz Vostok project. The data obtained were used in
the development of the gas pipeline route.
NOVATEK, ENN ink
sales and purchase
agreement
on long-term
LNG supply
PAO NOVATEK's wholly
owned subsidiary, NOVATEK
Gas & Power, and ENN LNG have
signed a long-term LNG sale and
purchase agreement (SPA) for
the LNG produced from the Arctic
LNG 2 project.
The SPA stipulates the supply
of approximately 600,000 tpy of
LNG from the Arctic LNG 2 project
for a term of 11 yr. The LNG will be
delivered on a delivered ex ship
(DES) basis to ENN's Zhoushan
LNG Receiving Terminal in China.
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emissions, or the equivalent
Baker Hughes has signed an
MoU with the Egyptian General
Petroleum Corp. (EGPC) that
aims to establish and drive a
flare recovery initiative to
support emissions recovery
and reduction across Egypt's
upstream and downstream oil
and gas operations.
To enable flare recovery from
oil and gas sites across Egypt,
Baker Hughes will leverage
its portfolio of emissions
management solutions, including
flare management technology,
compression, gas turbines and
integrated processing systems
that can help in the measurement,
management, recovery and
utilization of flare gas.
In addition, Baker Hughes
solutions-including flare.IQ-
will contribute to digitalizing
emissions management
infrastructure by enabling EGPC
to pull information about its flare
systems to calculate optimum
levels of flare efficiency and help
reduce methane emissions.
. Membranes are then used to extract H2
from these natural gas streams at the point of consumption. The resulting H2

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