United Gas Derivatives Company, UGDC, is an Egyptian joint venture company with equalownership among BP, ENI and GASCO.UGDC owns and operates Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) extraction plant located at Port Said, Egypt.The facility receives gas from Mediterranean off shore concessions after passing through an onshore separation facility.The NGL extraction plant was originally designed for 1100 MMSCFD of feed gas. In view of theavailable feed gas from upstream facilities UGDC initiated a debottlenecking project to increasethe capacity of the plant from 1100 MM SCFD to 1300 MMSCFD in a single train.The paper describes how the debottlenecking was achieved with a very low capital cost, althoughthe initial study from an engineering contractor indicated requirements of major plantmodifications and CAPEX spend of several millions of dollars. The paper details the investigationsand analysis that were subsequently carried out in house which included some out of the boxthinking. The result was that the increased capacity was achieved with minimum plantmodifications. The paper contains interesting information on the successful debottlenecking at lessthan 10% of the original cost estimate.
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