Sales Gas Storage in Saudi Arabia

Presented at Joint GPA Europe / GPA GCC Annual Conference held in Athens, 21 - 23 September 2016 and by
Rashid Al-Othman (Authors: Mohammed B. Bu Hassan, Rashid Al-Othman, Yuguo Wang, & Cemal Ercan, Research & Development Center, Saudi Aramco)
Abstract:
This paper discusses the work done by Saudi Aramco Research & Development Center (SA R&D Center) for the demonstration of an-adsorption-based process for storing sales gas in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The discussion will include the description of a case study to build a storage facility, which will be located near a power generation plant so that sales gas can be withdrawn from it during high-demand hours of the summer season to meet load variations.
This paper will discuss the isotherms, breakthrough curves, adsorption kinetics, diffusion coefficients, heat of adsorption, which were determined as integral part of R&D activities for the development of the processes.  Additionally, the pseudo-steady state cyclic behavior of the multiple adsorption/desorption cycles, heating/cooling effects, modeling and model validation will be discussed with the experimental data.
As background data, the history of sales gas production in the Kingdom as well as the different options for sales gas storage will also be included.