Development of technologies for production, processing, and transportation of unconventional natural gas resources

非常规天然气储量和市场之间的距离为经济安全地将天然气运输到消费中心带来了重大挑战。天然气在向工业化世界供应能源方面继续获得极大的重要性。世界上很大一部分天然气资源被认为是搁浅的。建议开展研究，以开发新颖、先进和有效的技术，从海上/偏远地区开采天然气。这些技术应能够加工和制备天然气，以便使用常规和较便宜的运输手段以液态形式运输，或以成本效益很高的方式以气态形式运输其他方法。 工艺设备的紧凑性在海上和浮式设施的设计中至关重要，因为占地面积非常宝贵。 该研究计划的主要目标是开发天然气生产和加工的先进技术，特别是深水，海底和船基系统。 建议工艺设备必须允许在海上和优选海底条件下有效去除天然气中的杂质，并提供低成本和紧凑的装置，用于从远程位置进行有效生产和处理。

The distance between unconventional natural gas reserves and markets creates major challenges for transporting the gas to consumption centers economically and safely. Natural gas continues to gain great importance in supplying energy to the industrialized world. A large portion of natural gas resources in the world are considered to be stranded. It is proposed that research be conducted towards the development of novel, advanced, and efficient technologies to exploit natural gas from offshore/remote areas. The technologies should be capable of processing and preparing natural gas to be transported either in a liquid form using conventional and less costly means of transportation or other transportation methods in a gaseous form but in a very cost effective manner. The compactness of process equipment is of crucial significance in design of offshore and floating facilities as the footprint area is at a premium. The main objective of this research program is to develop advanced technologies for natural gas production and processing especially for deep water, subsea, and ship-based systems. It is proposed that the process equipment must allow efficient removal of impurities in natural gas under maritime and preferably subsea conditions and provide a low cost and compact means for efficient production and processing from remote locations.