Definition of a chemical process based on natural gas as feedstock

The principal use of natural gas is energy utilization for the generation of electricity, steam and heating through combustion. As such, natural gas is an alternative raw material to fuels such as coal, renewable energies, petroleum products, etc. An additional use is the chemical processing of the main component of natural gas – methane –with …

Batch drilling

  Batch drilling, which morphs multi-pad drilling into the assembly line concept — has been around for years in older fields. After some early positive results, some smaller companies in the field are adapting the method to their operations, shaving days off the drilling process, and subsequently saving them millions of dollars. Batch drilling will …

Gate closure

The last date before real time in which the central dispatch receives updates to price offers by the producers. In Europe, these times shorten in relation to real time and occasionally stand at 30 minutes, meaning that producers can revise their price offers up to 30 minutes before real time.