Offshore staff

HOUSTON -- Mustang Engineering has been awarded US Patent No. 7,225,636 for a proprietary process to liquefy natural gas, marketed as the LNG Smart Liquefaction Process.

According to Mustang, this process requires no separate refrigerant production or storage (all refrigeration is provided by the process fluid); standard field-proven components are used such as compressors, turbo expanders, vessels, and generators with a custom heat exchanger; and the process can easily accommodate variable gas production rates and shutdowns.

In addition, the LNG Smart Liquefaction Process is easily integrated in an offshore environment on an FPSO vessel to commercialize associated and/or stranded gas fields, the company says.

The LNG Smart Liquefaction Process is a component in Mustang's suite of LNG Smart technologies that include the LNG Smart Air Vaporization process, horizontal LNG storage tanks, various floating vessels with regasification and storage technologies, and FPSOs with onboard liquefaction.

12/17/2007