NEW HUGOTON GAS PLANT STARTS UP

Earlier this summer, Amoco Production Co. started up its new Hugoton Jayhawk gas-processing plant in the Hugoton field of southwest Kansas. The plant is positioned to be a regional processing hub, not only for Hugoton gas, but for gas produced in Oklahoma, Colorado, and the Texas Panhandle. Hugoton Jayhawk is designed to recover more than 80% of the C{sub 2} and essentially all of the C{sub 3}+ components in a Y-grade NGL product stream of approximately 31,000 b/d. Hugoton area gas contains about 0.4% helium, of which up to an estimated 98% is recovered in a product stream of approximately 700 MMscf/yr. The paper discusses process design, operational considerations, plant start-up, control logic, and hydrate formation.