Well outlet separation
Natural Gas Treatment

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Well outlet separation


Natural Gas Treatment

Authors : Julia MAGNÉ-DRISCH, Sébastien GONNARD

Publication date: November 10, 2015, Review date: December 1, 2022 | Lire en français

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2. Well outlet separation

While some wells produce dry gas that can be sent directly to processing or compression units, more often than not, a combination of gas, oil (in the sense of petroleum) and water is produced, which must be separated before any further processing. Generally speaking, natural gas condensate is a liquid mixture of "light hydrocarbons" obtained by condensation of certain raw natural gases. This condensate is a mixture of hydrocarbons of type C 5 to C 8 .

2.1 Natural gas classification

Figure 8 shows a breakdown of hydrocarbon groups (HC) by carbon...

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