Australian liquids-handling system cuts surges to LPG plant
Journal Article
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· Oil and Gas Journal; (USA)
OSTI ID:6572113
- Bridge Oil Ltd., Sydney (AU)
This paper reports how a pipeline liquids-handling facility recently commissioned allows gas production to be quickly ramped up to meet customer demand. Its design eliminates trouble-some liquid surges which had hampered plant operations. The pipeline-loop system, located at the Wallumbilla LPG processing plant, Queensland, was built for 60 of the cost of an equivalently sized conventional slug catcher. Its control system enables automatic, unattended handling of liquid surges and pigging slugs from the 102-km Silver Springs to Wallumbilla two-phase pipeline. Because of this system's simple hydraulics, normal slug-catcher piping design problems are eliminated. Safety is improved because the potentially hazardous condensate liquid is contained in a buried pipeline.
- OSTI ID:
- 6572113
- Journal Information:
- Oil and Gas Journal; (USA), Journal Name: Oil and Gas Journal; (USA) Vol. 88:32; ISSN OIGJA; ISSN 0030-1388
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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