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To recover heavier hydrocarbons, the gas must be cooled. Lean oil absorption and mechanical refrigeration were historically standard, using propane as a refrigerant to chill the gas to approximately -20°F to -40°F. This causes heavier liquids to condense, which are then separated in a cold separator. gas processing handbook exclusive

The 2025 edition, set to release in Q3, will include a chapter on Hydrogen-Blended Gas Processing (up to 15% H2 in natural gas streams), including explosion-proof modifications for electrostatic coalescers and membrane selectivity factors for H2/CH4 separation.

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HOUSTON – BERGEN – SINGAPORE — For most of the 20th century, natural gas was the unwelcome guest at the petroleum party. If you struck gas instead of oil, you capped it, flared it, or pumped it back into the ground. It was too volatile to ship, too bulky to store, and too dangerous to ignore.

That era is not just over; it has been vaporized.

In an unprecedented early release obtained exclusively by this correspondent, the 2026 edition of the Gas Processing Handbook—the industry’s clandestine bible—reveals a sector undergoing its most radical transformation since the invention of the absorption plant. This is no mere incremental update of dehydration specs and amine units. This is a blueprint for how natural gas becomes the structural backbone of the post-carbon economy.