The oil and gas industry continually renews itself through technological advances and developments.

There are many important new and emerging technologies in the area of gas processing.  The exploitation of natural gas resources in remote and environmentally challenging locations, the increased development of HP/HT reservoirs, and the production of gas containing significant quantities of CO2 and sulfur compounds has necessitated advances in processes and equipment.

Parallel examples in the E&P sector include advances in horizontal drilling and completion techniques which have allowed development of unconventional reservoirs, new seismic analysis that is largely responsible for the discovery of large reservoirs in deep water, evolvement of subsea technologies that has made drilling and development of deep water fields economically viable.

The purpose of this course is to provide a quick review of existing gas processing technologies, introduce developing technologies that have been recently commercialized or are in the latter stage of development and discuss a “wish list” of potential technologies necessary to advance the business.

Topics to be discussed include:

Upstream: Gas Production and Gathering
    Advances in separator design including compact separation
    Flow assurance including hydrate inhibition and slug mitigation
    Subsea processing including separation and compression

Midstream: Gas Sweetening, Gas Dehydration and NGL Extraction
    Acid gas removal
    Sulfur recovery including tail gas processes and acid gas injection
    Product treating

Downstream: Gas Transportation and Conversion
    Gas transmission and compression
    Advances in LNG
    Gas conversion including GTL and chemicals