The company will use UOP’s Amine Guard FS process at its FLNG project, called PETRONAS Floating LNG 1 (PFLNG 1).
PFLNG1 is expected to begin operations by the end of 2015 and it will be moored about 112 miles off the coast of Sarawak, Malaysia.
The facility has been designed to produce 1.2 million tons per year of LNG.
PETRONAS will use Amine Guard FS technology to remove carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from the LNG feed streams. The process helps reduce acid gas contaminants to very low levels before the liquefaction of the gas.
Honeywell’s UOP Gas Processing and Hydrogen business unit vice president and general manager Rebecca Liebert said the company will work with PETRONAS on the first floating LNG project in the world.
"UOP offers a full suite of leading-edge, agile gas processing technologies, enabling us to design solutions for customers monetizing their gas resources," Liebert added.
"Together with PETRONAS, we are excited to bring continued improvements to meet the world’s growing demand for cleaner-burning and versatile natural gas energy in this new frontier of gas conditioning and treating."
UOP’s technology has been modified to be used on PFLNG 1 to fit into the environment such as plot size, weight and cost.
The acid gas removal system has been designed in as per PETRONAS requirement to get an optimized process that can expand and handle various feed stream contaminant concentrations.
