Everyone Gets What They Deserve

[Champane Flight]

Is it?

Is it all oil companys that have these problems? I have seen rebuildable $150,000. 00 control valves thrown away without a blink of an eye! Yet let one of us turn in an extra hour of shift differential (at one dollar per) , and you would think you tryed to break the company!

 

[LarryB]

Re: Holy cripes

Originally posted by Whitmore

You guys are close on the process but let me give a briefe overview, like I say the temp of the inlet is 400 ferenhite and it is also very wet, yep we do 1700 bbl of h20 per 24 hr on each plant, We have 2 twin plants side by side with an inlet of 66 mmcfd thate makes sales of 45 mmcfd per train, the new world class train will be 250 mmcfd !!! anywho we drop the h2o off in the inlet seperators and do a cooling loop and filtration then right back into the seperators again, this gets the gas down to 250 degrees , the sour gas comes off the top of the seperator and into a contact cooler where more inlet h2o is cooled and comes over the top of the tower while the sour gas goes into the bottom, the gas leaves the the vessel at 100 degrees and is run thru a cintrifical seperator to get the last of the h2o, now we have alot of h2o issues here that go from total filtration to granual activated carbon treating and is safe and legal to discharge into the creek bed, DEQ monitors very closly, so the gas is dry but very sour when it enters process, we use a chemical solvent that is trade secret and I cant mention its name but it is specialy formulated for our process and costs 30 bucks per gallon and we have almost 1 million gallons on site, the new plant will take 3 million to fill so we have a h2s absorber and a flash drum and a huge stripper than we do a co2 absorber and 3 flash drums and the gas is sweet and ready to sell, but now we have all the acid gas to deal with so off all the strippers 4 total we feed 11 mmcfd to a reaction furnace and 3 reactors and reheaters and condensers where we convert it all to liquid sulfer , this is 95 % so we now have 5 % remains to deal with and thats where we have our amine unit , a scott clouse unit it absorbs the 5 % residule and strips it than it becomes a feed again to the RX, there are many support systems to all of this and is very labor intensive . Oh and the inlet psi from our wells is 1300 psi so we need no compression for that however , we do use compression off a slip stream for both the co2 and h2s absorbers as an enhansed recovery method and it works well, of course we have refrigeration and chillers for our processing fluid and the new compressor is a big 6800 HP electric 4 stage cintrifugal comp I think we will dim some lites in WYO when we fire that bad boy up. wow. our wells % total and drilling more can flow up to 60 mmcfd each and the pipeline feed like alot of our process piping ig 6 inch and 300 bucks per inch, CRIPES ALIVE ,we are drilling 3 or maybe 4 mor wells now, 2 of them are done and 1 or 2 are yet to come, it takes 1 year to drill them as they are 5 miles deep,25000 to 26000 feet and then of course the construction of the feed piping, it is a carbon steal line with an inkoneel lining, we also use alot of hastaloy metal too . before I was there they tried a load of stainless 316 packing in the h2s absorber and it lasted 2 days and became a pile of dust The safety at this plant is fantastic and there are double and tripple coverage on all angles just like you guys figured and yes at 10 ppm we don scba and fix the problem, I worked for 5 years prior to this in sweet gas and it was much more dangerous , old stuff and lack of maint. and I saw 6 fires in the plant, I aint seen any up here yet ,thats because we are extrimely cautious and respectful of equiptment anwhen we need more stuff we buy it!!!, I just witnessed last week the installation of 5 inkonelle electric spec blinds at 1 million bucks each and these are there for safety purposes, no holds barred, this company is willing to spend what it needs to to do the job right ,

That's what I was going to say.

 

[Whitmore]

pictures

I made a post a few months back called my turbo is bigger than yours, this thread had a few pics of our roots blowers that supply air to the RX at a rate of 60 mmcfd , this air is mixed with the acid gas in the furnace, they are the only pics I have of the joint... ... ... . me4osu I,m sorry I do not know your friend in Casper but I bet he spends alot of time out in our field as we do have alot of compression in the field on our sweet (shallow) gas, it is a very busy place .



Did you all know that Wyo has more regestered vehicles per capita than any other state? thats because you have to drive to get anywhere, heck its a long ways just to the neighbors houseOo. ... ... ... Kevin

 

[JHansen]

Wow...........

A lot of the sour stuff is over my head-I'm a shallow sweet type of fellow. We don't have anything in our field over 1300 metres deep (what's that in feet-4300 or so? Mannville zone stuff to us in Alberta-not sure what you guys'd call it). Can't believe you guys are allowed to turn your produced water back out onto the surface-doesn't matter no how what you do to it up here-it's injection-bound... . they used to let the real shallow formation water (Edmonton/Medicine Hat/White Sands type stuff-no real brine) be discharged at the surface but they disallowed that a couple years ago too.



So your primary H2S system is a scavenger contactor type thing? Our one stupid sour booster has a contactor tower with a scavenger chemical in it-nowheres near as high-tech as yours but it works . Continuous injection and the operator dumps the spent stuff out to a tank for pickup when the Cansweet guy comes to replenish the fresh tank.



And all your production fluids (H20/condensate) come straight to the inlets as well-no on-lease separation?



Can't even fathom inlet temps at 400F-right now our plant inlets are just above freezing... . different set of problems altogether. Methanol is your friend!



Burlington has a presence up here now-in fact one of my bosses' wives is a secretary for BCRL in beautiful downtown Byemoor!



Thanks for the cool info!



Jason

 

[Champane Flight]

Have to check.

The area up in the hills I am moving to in a couple of years has a lot of coal bed methane. They have a water problem. Have been injecting, dumping, and pooling it. Just this last year they have had several localized quakes = 3. 5 to 4. 0 . The geologists all agree it was the water table changes. I hope they don't have to pull the plug. I was going to work for these folks after I retire from PPL .