Mustang Engineering (“Mustang”), a wholly owned subsidiary of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC (“Wood Group”), and Wood Group, have been awarded U.S. Patent #7,225,636 for a proprietary process to liquefy natural gas.

This process is marketed as the LNG Smart® Liquefaction Process and offers several benefits. Namely, it requires no separate refrigerant production or storage; all refrigeration is provided by the process fluid; standard field-proven components are used, such as compressors, turbo expanders, vessels, and generators with a custom heat exchanger, and; the process can easily accommodate variable gas production rates and shutdowns.

In addition, the LNG Smart Liquefaction Process is easily integrated in an offshore environment on a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel to commercialize associated and/or stranded gas fields.

The LNG Smart Liquefaction Process is a key component to Mustang’s suite of LNG Smart technologies that also includes the LNG Smart Air Vaporization (SAV) process, horizontal LNG storage tanks, various floating vessels with regasification and storage technologies (FSRUs), and floating production storage and offloading vessels with onboard liquefaction (FPSOs).

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