FPSO crude separation is a staged, three-phase process that uses pressure letdown, heating, and electrostatic coalescence to split well fluids into stabilized crude, export gas, and treated produced ...

MIT engineers developed a membrane, pictured, that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size, an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed for crude oil ...

A team of chemical engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has invented a new process to separate crude oil components, potentially bringing forward a replacement that can cut its ...

Tsvetana is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing for news outlets such as iNVEZZ and SeeNews. Engineers at MIT have developed a new approach to crude oil fractionating ...

At-a-Glance: FPSO crude separation follows a multi-stage, three-phase path: controlled inlet and slug damping ? HP/MP/LP separation ? heat/chemicals and electrostatic ...