Gas processing news

H. Meche, Associate Editor GE reaches LNG project milestone GE Oil & Gas has shipped two LNG compressor trains that are being supplied for the development of Dominion’s Cove Point LNG export facility, currently under construction by IHI E&C International Corp. and Kiewit Energy Co. The LNG plant, located on Chesapeake Bay in Lusby, Maryland, will produce approximately 5.25 metric MMtpy of LNG when completed in late 2017, and it will be the first LNG terminal capable of exporting LNG from the US East Coast. Each of the two identical trains includes an FR7 gas turbine plus three centrifugal compressors and a 20-MW, two-pole induction electric helper motor provided by G