The present invention relates to an improved process for recovery of naturalgas liquids from a natural gas feedstream. The process runs at a constant pressure with no intentional reductionin pressure. An open loop mixed refrigerant is usedto provide process cooling and to provide a reflux stream for the distillationcolumn used to recover the natural gas liquids. Theprocesses may be used to recover C3+ hydrocarbons from natural gas, or torecover C2+ hydrocarbons from natural gas.
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