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Efficient separation of gas-liquid mixtures

In the fractionating columns in use today, losses occur when intermediate products flow from one column to the next: the separated fluids tend to mix again before the process continues to separate ...
Oil

High-capacity trays hike demeth capacity, efficiency at two Middle East gas plants

Replacing conventional valve trays with high-capacity trays in six demethanizer columns at Saudi Aramco's Shedgum and 'Uthmaniyah gas plants eliminated a liquid load restriction in the column top ...
Business Wire

Feeling the Pinch: U.S. Midstream Capacity Constraints Put Chemical Producers Under Cost and Margin Pressure as Ethane Feedstock Demand Exceeds Supply Capability, IHS Markit Says

The petrochemical producers fortunate to have ‘flex-feed’ crackers able to adapt to alternate feedstocks will pursue those alternatives—with ethane prices being the equalizer, until new U.S. Gulf ...
Business Wire

Feeling the Pinch: U.S. Midstream Capacity Constraints Put Chemical Producers Under Cost and Margin Pressure as Ethane Feedstock Demand Exceeds Supply Capability, IHS Markit Says

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A surge in production of associated and non-associated natural gas from U.S. shale gas and tight oil plays, combined with a wave of new petrochemical steam-crackers coming ...