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N-removal technology improved to process West Texas Yates gas

01/15/2007
Removing nitrogen from natural gas increases production potential and may spur drilling in the Yates formation, Permian basin.Midland’s BCCK Engineering Inc. is building new nitrogen removal units in Texas and Oklahoma that will help capture the value of nitrogen-rich natural gas.The company initially developed a low-volume nitrogen-removal process that was installed at the Mist gas field, northwestern Oregon in 1994 (OGJ, Mar. 13, 1995, p. 92).BCCK’s Nitech process cryogenically separates nitrogen from methane in a single column, but does not employ a cryogenic pump or any rotating cryogenic equipment. The basic Nitech equipment includes a molecular-sieve gas dehydrator, rege...
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