Honeywell wins contract to supply fractionation plant to MarkWest

Honeywell’s UOP Russell business is set to provide a fractionation plant to be installed at MarkWest Energy Partners’ Hopedale facility located in Jewett, Ohio.

The plant has a production capacity of 60,000 barrels per day of natural gas liquids (NGLs).

The fractionation system will enable MarkWest Energy to recover propane, isobutane, normal butane and pentane – or natural petrol – from mixed natural gas liquids.

Honeywell UOP Russell business director Craig Ranta said: “A growing number of gas processors are investing in NGL fractionation technology.

“Today, our fractionation technologies produce more than 850,000 barrels per day of natural gas liquids extracted from natural gas streams.”

Fractionation units allow separation of mixtures of extracted NGLs into individual pure components.

The products obtained from the separation process will be used to manufacture petrochemicals.

The UOP Russell fractionation plant has been customised to meet the large capacity requirements of MarkWest.

Furthermore, the plant marks an expansion of UOP Russell’s portfolio of pre-engineered fractionation products.

Ranta further added: “In less than 40 weeks, Honeywell now can provide fractionation units for de-ethanizers up to 125,000 barrels per day and for depropanisers up to 60,000 barrels per day.

“This allows customers to get onstream and begin reliably generating revenue even faster than before.”

MarkWest’s portfolio includes natural gas gathering systems in six US states, as well as natural gas processing complexes in the Marcellus Shale, Utica Shale, Appalachia region and south-west region.