February 2012
LEAD STORY
US producers of LNG for export from the natural gas surplus are likely to number around four or five maximum, even if an LNG project emerges from the Alaskan North Slope reserves.
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A large quantity of LNG has been imported into Japan for a long time and there are 28 LNG import terminals, with around 30 main berth locations now in operation. When new LNG berth construction or the extension of existing berths is planned the pre-studies are conducted so that the…
Bob Daniels, Anadarko SVP for Exploration, said the latest find in the feed-gas complex for the Mozambique LNG project was the largest pay count to date ANADARKO Petroleum hit its largest natural gas pay well yet in the seventh drilling appraisal in its discovery area offshore Mozambique from where it…
There is a different and innovative application of the gas turbine air extraction through extensive production of Instrument air from utility gas turbine generators and has been applied successfully to a major LNG liquefaction project in Qatar. In the case presented here, up to 80 percent of the total 35000…
LNG train designs currently fall within four classes, having nominal capacities clustering around 1.5 million tonnes per annum, 3.5 MTPA, 5 MTPA and 8 MTPA. These designs may coexist in the coming years, as individual projects choose sizes that match their gas supplies, sales, and other logistical and economic constraints.…
We have made progress in our research into optimization of the Spiral Wound Heat Exchanger (SWHE) for use in LNG production plants. A simulation was built using MATLAB, which is integrated with the Excel spreadsheet and Aspen HYSYS. As an initial validation step we have compared the experimental results with…
