Air Products advances machinery-process configurations for evolving LNG landscape
Joe Wehrman, Mark Roberts and Bill Kennington of Air Products present Part 1 of an analysis on evolution liquefaction processing
The LNG industry continues to grow and evolve to meet market demands. Over the past decade, the emphasis was on large LNG process trains of 5 million tonnes per annum and above, capped off by the 7.8 MTPA mega-Train design using the Air Products AP-X process in Qatar.
These large Train designs were driven by the desire to achieve economies of scale and were enabled by access to large feed-gas reserves.
Today, there are several new market trends that require different LNG process Train design solutions.
Monetize
These trends include monetization of smaller gas fields, offshore floating plants, and liquefaction of unconventional gas.
The industry has also become more environmentally focused due to new governmental regulations and societal pressures; for almost all new LNG Trains, minimizing the carbon footprint is a key design consideration.
Air Products has developed liquefaction process designs to address these new trends and a critical part in LNG Train design is the selection of the compressor/driver configuration.
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