Offshore Gas-To-Solids Technology

Abstract

Abstract BG Group’s Hydrates Gas–to-Solids (GtS) technology has been established to investigate ways of managing gas in regions lacking suitable gas infrastructure and/or local markets. Put simply, the technology amounts to adding natural gas to water and stirring. This converts the gas into hydrate that is then shipped to market for regasification to supply power generation facilities or other gas customers. The low complexity of this technology and the potential for small-scale modular operation is particularly appropriate for offshore associated gas applications where growing environmental pressures to reduce or eliminate gas flaring frequently create situations in which oil developments cannot proceed if there is no technical or economic means for gas disposal. BG is progressing further pilot plant scale testing and engineering definition programmes with the aim of targeting a potential commercial plant operation by 2006.