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 ...

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 ...

Recent clarifications by the US Bureau of Industry regarding the export of condensate amid growing supplies of domestic oil and gas shale production have sustained expansions of fractionation and ...

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 ...

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 ...