Johann Pleininger, Petrom executive board member, responsible for exploration and production: “The gas processing plant inaugurated today is much more efficient than the old installation and is compliant with all applicable EU norms explicitly regarding emissions.”
From its offshore installations in the Black Sea, Petrom produces associated and non-associated natural gas, which both require processing in order to be injected into the National Transportation System. The gas plant in Midia processes the collected gas volumes to meet sales gas specifications by removal of the heavier hydrocarbon components such as propane, butane and pentane. The remaining light component methane and ethane are dispatched into the National Transportation System network for further distribution to customers. The heavy gas components are transported in liquid form by railroad tankers to Petrom’s refineries and added to the production process.
The Midia gas plant can process up to 3.8 mn cbm/d of natural gas with a 99% recovery of heavy components allowing for an improved recovery of 340 t/d of liquid natural gas products. In comparison the former gas plant was able to recover only 100 t/d. In addition, the Midia gas plant boasts its own gas fired power generation plant with a capacity of 10 MW inclusive a fully redundant 200 t/d steam generation capacity. This allows the Midia gas plant to operate independently from any external electric power supply.
The Midia gas plant was designed and built under an engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) contract by Linde Group with the support of subcontractors from Romania, Germany, Ukraine and Hungary. The total value of investments amounts to around EUR90 million.
