DESIGN SIMULATION STUDY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL GAS LIQUID FROM RAW NATURAL GAS MECHANISMS

Gas Engineering

There are a variety of ways to extract natural gas liquids (NGL) from natural gas, since demand for NGL has increased in recent years. A simulation and development research of NGL recovery for two separate methods is shown here. Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) uses the simulation to evaluate and compare an existing NGL recovery system at Port NLNG Bonny (Nigeria), which is based on the company's Improved Overhead Recycle Mechanisms (IOR) (SCORE). Simulations reveal that IOR mechanisms are more adaptable than SCORE systems when the natural gas feed composition changes from rich to extremely lean. To handle feed gas composition ranging from lean (0.91806-0.9620) to rich (0.91800-0.85511) depending on methane mole fraction, IOR techniques have been developed. SCORE mechanisms' fixed capital investment and operational costs are cheaper than those of IOR mechanisms under typical operating conditions by $ 25.67E+06 / year. SCORE's overall production profit is also $ 10.787E+06 more each year than IOR mechanisms' total production profit. As a result, SCORE mechanisms are the preferred technology for facilities that need high propane recovery and optimum efficiency.

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