Surface production operations. Volume 2. Design of gas-handling systems and facilites / Поверхностные производственные процессы. Выпуск 2. Проектирование систем и сооружений для обработки газа

The objective of a gas-handling facility is to separate natural gas, condensate, or oil and water from a gas-producing ensate, or oil and water from a gas-producing well and condition these fluids for sales or disposal. This volume focuses primarily on conditioning natural gas for sales. Gas sweetening, the removal of corrosive sulfur compounds from natural gas, is discussed in Chapter 7; methods of gas dehydration are the subject of Chapter 8, and gas processing to extract natural gas components is discussed in Chapter 9. Condensate stabilization, the process of flashing the lighter hydrocarbons to gas in order to stabilize the heavier components in the liquid phase, is the topic of Chapter 6. Treating the condensate or oil and water after the initial separation from the natural gas is covered in Volume 1. <...>