March/April 2018
Midstream Business
Recovery vs. rejection—and many more questions—go into designing a profitable gas processing plant.
By Charles Laughter, Joule Processing
and Sabrina Devone, Fluor
Today's market is full of unknowns, but the natural gas processing plant does not have to add to the uncertainty. A typical midstream dilemma is the constant struggle between meeting the producer’s needs, delivering a high-performance processing solu-tion to attract additional volumes and increase producer netback val-ues, yet also controlling capex to meet project return on investment (ROI) and internal rate of return (IRR) metrics.
The solution must also address the elusive problem of ethane recovery.
Does this sound familiar? Some com-mon questions for producers include: