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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2023
Exxonmobil Technology and Engineering Company, Spring, TX (US);
Priya Santhanam, Spring, TX (US);
P. Scott Northrop, Spring, TX (US);
Shwetha Ramkumar, Cypress, TX (US);
John Timothy Cullinane, Montgomery, TX (US);
Sean T. Philbrook, Houston, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for sweetening natural gas may utilize a water wash to achieve a reduction in raw natural gas stream contaminants (e.g., particulate contaminants and/or chemical contaminants) and/or to recover solvent used for removing HS and COfrom the natural gas. For example, a method may include contacting a first natural gas stream with a first water stream in a co-current contacting system to produce a second natural gas stream and a second water stream, wherein the first natural gas stream comprises natural gas, an acid gas, and a contaminate, and wherein a concentration of the contaminate in the second natural gas stream is less than a concentration of the contaminate in the first natural gas stream; and removing at least a portion of the acid gas from the second natural gas stream.