Flare Gas Recovery

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The UK government is committed to reducing Green House Gas emissions, including CO₂. Flare gas recovery is environmentally desirable, good for maintenance, and will deliver positive economic results.

Argo Environmental Engineering are agents for Hamworthy, supplying flare gas recovery systems with full technical and commercial support.

What is zero flaring?

The process is simple in that it relies on the closing off the flare by means of a fail-open, fast-opening valve, and a recovery system to take gas from the Knockout Drum to, for example, gas powered generators. The gas clearly must have a useful destination as fuel gas, injection, or export. The economics of the system depend on items such as:

• Fuel Gas Requirements
• CO₂ trading tariffs
• Enviromental Pressure
• Flare Maintenance costs (often the major consideration)

The most immediate use for such systems is on platforms which are, or will be fuel gas deficient, as the gas burnt in the flare immediately could be used to replace alternative sources of fuel. Often there is a very good economic case for such development.

Today almost 50% of all gas flareed in the UK is background flaring, and 20% of CO₂generated offshore is attributed to flare operations. In total the UK offshore industry flares produce 1% of the total UK industrial CO₂ emissions.

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