Tag: Sour Gas Processing

A complete listing of all articles and news items that appeared in Sulphur magazine during 2024.

As the oil and gas industry focus on new requirements for CO2 recovery, cryogenic processes come under the spotlight. Mahin Rameshni and Stephen Santo of RATE USA discuss the importance of cryogenic processes in acid gas sweetening. Liquefied H2 S and CO2 reinjection is proposed as a cost effective alternative to large sulphur plants.

Representatives from across the global sulphur and sour gas community convened in Abu Dhabi from 20 to 23 May to discuss and debate the key strategic themes that are driving the industry. The Middle East Sulphur Conference (MEScon) is a premier event that brings together representatives from the entire sour gas and sulphur value chain to promote technology and innovation, lessons learned, best practices, knowledge transfer and R&D.

Aparna Saiju and Nishevitha U G of SLB-MPS explore the concept of energy optimisation using power recovery turbine (PRT) technology in amine sweetening units, focusing on its potential benefits, implementation strategies, and environmental implications.

Readers of Sulphur magazine have always been at the forefront of operating, designing, researching, and troubleshooting process units in the sulphur value chain. However, more recently, with the emergence of net zero initiatives by international conventions and governments (e.g. the Paris agreement), the push for decarbonisation in our industry has been on the rise. Ganank Srivastava of Bryan Research & Engineering takes a look at the bigger picture and examines ways to reduce carbon footprint in sour gas facilities.

Though production, particularly from sour gas in Alberta, has declined, Canada remains the world’s second largest exporter of sulphur.

Falling volumes of sulphur from refining and sour gas could turn Europe into a sulphur importer.

TarT technology, one of 8 Rivers’ decarbonisation technologies, shows promise as an economical, efficient, sour gas sweetening process with near-zero carbon dioxide emissions, and may be key to unlocking access to the world’s sour gas reserves.

This June marks a milestone for this magazine; a platinum jubilee since the very first issue of the magazine was printed in 1953. It began life as the Quarterly Bulletin of the Sulphur Exploration Syndicate. The Syndicate was created in 1952, and was backed by nine major chemical producers, mainly in Britain and the US, who were concerned about dwindling world supplies of sulphur. Though some of these companies have vanished by the wayside over the years, including F.W. Berk and Co. Ltd, British Titan Products, Brotherton & Co., and Charles Tenant & Sons Ltd, others remain household names to this day, including Monsanto, Courtaulds (now part of Akzo-Nobel), and Dunlop (now owned by Goodyear), while Fisons’ fertilizer division was sold to Norsk Hydro in 1982 and today trades as part of Yara.

Sulphur production continues to expand in the Middle East and China both from new refineries and major sour gas projects.