Expansion Doubles Plant’s Sulfur Handling Capacity

A major plant expansion of the unit treating amine acid gas at the Pinnacle Gas Treating—Bethel Treating facility is in the final installation phase and is expected to start on schedule in June 2008. This expansion will more than double the plant’s sulfur handling capability from 9 long tons per day (LTPD) to 20 (LTPD). The addition of an 11 LTPD LO-CAT® Hydrogen Sulfide Treatment System from Gas Technology Products division of Merichem Chemicals & Refinery Services LLC is being configured to join existing LO-CAT systems to significantly expand
gas treating capacity at the plant.

The existing 7 LTPD and 2 LTPD LO-CAT systems have been operating effectively since 1997 at Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s Pinnacle Bethel Gas Plant, near Bethel, TX.

The new LO-CAT ll® Autocirculation “box-style” System will match and link the two existing units and will add the capacity to treat up to 4MMSCFD amine acid gas, removing an additional 11 LTPD sulfur, with greater than 99.9% removal.

Anadarko provides gas producers a wide array of midstream services in East and West Texas, Southwest Kansas, Wyoming, Northwest Utah, Central Colorado and the Four Corners Area. For more information about this project
at Pinnacle Gas Treating LLC, contact Gary LeBlanc at (832) 636-8635 or gary.leblanc@anadarko.com.

Gas Technology Products, a division of Merichem Chemicals and Refinery Services LLC, has more than 30 years of H2S removal experience and offers a complete portfolio of H2S removal processes, systems and products
to fit a wide range of applications. Additional information is available at www.gtp-merichem.com.

Merichem Chemicals & Refinery Services LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Merichem Company, provides a diversified portfolio of products and services for chemical and petrochemical, petroleum refining, pulp and paper and wood treatment and preservative industries, as well as an expansive offering of process technologies for the treatment of hydrocarbon streams. The U.S. headquarters is in Houston with 39 international representatives.
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