Posts Tagged ‘compression’

“Condensate”

Definition Condensate is referring to the natural gas liquids (NGLs) contained in the raw gas. Comments The raw gas or gas is made of natural gas (methane) and condensate. When the gas is produced from the reservoir it contains roughly 80%-95% methane and 20%-5% condensate. These condensate or natural gas (more…)

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Regasification

Definition Regasification is the physical process by which liquefied natural gas (LNG) is heated to be returned into its gaseous state. Comments The natural gas is liquefied to facilitate its transportation as its volume reduces by 600 times from its gaseous state. To be liquefied, the natural gas needs to be cooled down to (more…)

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Liquefaction

Definition Liquefaction refers to the physical transformation of gas into liquid. In the oil and gas industry this liquefaction of gas may be processed just by compression, just by refrigeration, or both in combination depending on the gas.  Comments In most of the cases the gas liquefaction is performed for (more…)

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Husky & CNOOC gear up with Madura FPSO and FPU

Husky Energy from Canada and CNOOC from China own each of the Madura fields, BD, MDA & MBH, in the Madura Straight on East Java, Indonesia. The remaining 20% belongs to the local Samudra Energy. The  Madura BD project is well in progress as decision was made last year to go (more…)

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Shell & Chevron to kick off Malampaya Phase 3

Shell is operating the Malampaya gas field with 45% share, at the same level as Chevron while the local Philippines National Oil Company, PNOC, owns the remaining 10%.  The third phase of Malampaya will suppose the construction of an offshore compression platform. This platform should be built in the Philippines (more…)

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