Offshore Processes

Conceptual Design to Mitigate the Effects of Mercury in Oil and Gas




It is now possible to design offshore production facilities to minimize the impact of mercury in produced fluids on people, equipment and the environment. MTS assists companies to select process components, materials and process configurations that allow safe and efficient production of oil and gas that may contain mercury. Using proprietary computational models to predict mercury accumulation in equipment and concentrations in process streams, the process design can be optimized to prevent equipment degradation, worker exposure and to improve product quality. MTS has experience with glycol and mol-siv dehydration units, membrane CO₂ removal units, separators, chillers, coalescer filters, rotating equipment and a variety of other equipment and process systems. In addition, MTS recommends procedures to identify and quantify mercury in produced fluids such that mercury removal systems for produced water, gas streams and liquid hydrocarbon streams can be selected.