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Article: Small reserves bolstered by nitrogen removal.(E & P Update)
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- Natural Gas Week
- Article date:
- November 27, 2006
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With the US energy industry looking even more closely at unconventional gas sources, a Midland, Texas-based company is finding itself in a unique niche market.
Bcck Engineering's main product is a process to remove nitrogen from natural gas streams, making the gas marketable. It's nothing new, though, said R. Clark Butts, president and chief executive of Bcck Engineering.
After five years of research and development, Bcck Engineering is fielding a patented process called Nitech that Butts told Natural Gas Week "is specifically designed for natural gas streams," with inlet flow rates of 3 million cubic feet per day or greater, and a nitrogen content of ...