Department of Petroleum and Gas Engineering

University of Port Harcourt

Course: Natural Gas Processing Course Code: PNG 508.2

MID-SEMESTER TEST

SECTION A

1. Which NGL component is used as a petrochemical feedstock that leads to

the making of plastics?
a) Methane b) Pentane c) Butane d) Ethane
2. Gas processing and fractionation processes rely on which of the following to
separate hydrocarbon components in a natural gas mixture?
a) The amount of water vapor in in the gas stream b) The gas-oil ratio (GOR)
c) Differences in their boiling point pressures and temperatures d) Differences
in heating value and boiling point pressure
3. Which gas is used primarily as a clean burning fuel or as a feedstock for
methanol?
a) Pentane b) Ethane c) Methane d) Butane
4. The Cryogenic Expander Process separates the rich gas stream into:
a) Ethane and Propane b) Methane and Dry Gas c) NGLs and Associated
Gas d) Methane and NGLs
5. In what order are the NGLs separated into their individual components at a
Fractionation Plant?
a) Ethane – Propane – Butane b) Propane – Ethane – Butane c) Butane –
Ethane – Propane d) Ethane – Butane – Propane
6. Which method is the most widely used to process natural gas?
a) Vaporization Process b) Cryogenic Expander Process c) Absorption
Process d) Liquefaction Process
7. Associated is a hydrocarbon vapour mixture separated from crude oil during
production. True/False
8. What would you call a natural gas that contains more than 95% methane?
a) Wet(Rich) gas b) Dry gas c) Associated gas d) LPG
9. Propane can be used only as a feedstock to make petrochemicals. True/False
10. A fractionation plant consists of a series of fractionation columns. The
process follows this order
a) De-methanizer, De-ethanizer, De-propanizer
b) De-ethanizer, De-propanizer, De-butanizer
c) De-propanizer, De-ethanizer, De-butanizer
d) De-butanizer, De-propanizer, De-ethanizer

SECTION B

1. What are the three key units/columns found in the fractionation train?
2. In gas natural gas processing, explain the specific role of the under-listed
processes.
(i) Separation
(ii) Gas sweetening
(iii) Gas dehydration
3. The Joule Thompson expansion is also known as what.
4. The proprietary catalytic chemical process developed by UOP called MEROX
stands for what?
ii) What is the process used for?