Definitions of words and terms used in the gas processing industry.
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Difference in value of natural gas liquid products as a liquid and as fuel value in natural gas. These are used to determine optimum recoveries in a gas plant.
The process used to describe separation of hydrocarbon components into two or more products through distillation.
The plant where the fractionation process is performed.
The column that separates hydrocarbon components into two or more products through the distillation process.
A specially constructed and calibrated valve designed and used solely for determining the water content in the propane product. See ASTM D-2713.
The temperature at which a liquid becomes a solid.
The total flow stream or effluent from a producing well containing all the constituents of the reservoir fluids
form of matter having no definite shape or volume unless confined.
The gas that is added to the head space in order to increase the pressure that exists above the liquid product vapor pressure.
The natural gas zone located above theoil zone in a reservoir.
An analytical instrument which separates mixtures of substances into identifiable components.
A hydrocarbon reservoir with natural gas which will yield condensate.
A number which mathematically is the product of the total volume and the total pressure divided by the absolute temperature for one mole of any ideal gas or mixture of ideal gases at any temperature.
