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Glycol Dehydration Design & Engineering for the Harshest Environments

Business intelligence and contract sales support for firms that design and engineer glycol dehydration units

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Our Expertise

We transform open geospatial data into business intelligence using AI, Python, PostgreSQL, QGIS, HubSpot, and Apollo. It's a lean, revenue-tech stack, to geographically connect engineering, design and product expertise to customer challenges. The stack is ours and already running, so partner firms don't need to set up any email, CRM, or systems integration.

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Commissioning

Proper commissioning of glycol dehydration units is essential for safe, reliable, and efficient natural gas processing. This process ensures that the TEG contactor, regenerator, pumps, heat exchangers, and instrumentation are correctly installed, integrated, and validated.

Effective engineering consulting during this phase is crucial to achieve the target water dew point while minimizing glycol losses, foaming, carry-over, and BTEX emissions.

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De-bottlenecking

De-bottlenecking glycol dehydration units is essential for oil and gas operators seeking to enhance natural gas processing capacity and efficiency from existing assets increasing throughput of 20-100% or more, all while incurring far lower capital expenditures and experiencing minimal downtime compared to building new facilities.

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Dewpoint

Oil and gas operators encounter significant challenges in cold-climate or high-pressure environments, where the increased water content can lead to freezing, liquid dropout, or operational shutdowns.

This is particularly evident on the North Slope of Alaska, the North Sea, Africa, and the Gulf of America. To address these issues, engineering consulting services often recommend glycol dehydration methods as part of the natural gas processing strategy to enhance operational efficiency.

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Foam or Fouling

Foaming and fouling are among the most persistent and costly problems in glycol dehydration units, cutting water removal, gas quality and plant reliability.

Contaminants such as entrained liquid hydrocarbons, salts, chlorides, solids (including iron sulfides), and acid gases (H₂S and CO₂) infiltrate the tri-ethylene glycol (TEG) loop.

Foaming causes glycol carryover into sales gas, poor mass transfer, contactor flooding, low-level trips and higher chemical use. Fouling from solids, degradation byproducts and scale builds up on contactor trays and packing, heat exchangers, and reboilers.

This buildup restricts glycol circulation, impairs heat transfer, and results in elevated pressure drops, highlighting the need for effective engineering consulting to address these challenges in glycol dehydration.

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Training

One- and two-day onsite training for technicians or engineers, specifically focused on glycol dehydration and natural gas processing, are available anywhere in the world.

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Troubleshooting

Give us a call at +1 (713) 725-2399. We can help you troubleshoot.

Partnerships

Contract Sales Support

GlyGas works alongside engineering firms as an outside sales team. We handle targeted outreach, qualification, joint web conferences, and proposal development and submission. Your engineers provide the technical input. Compensation is a simple referral fee on won work, with no added headcount and low overhead for your team.

Based in Houston, with active outreach in the Permian, Rockies, Bakken, and Marcellus/Appalachian basins.

Intelligence

Market Intelligence

Regional research on where dry gas matters most, from core Lower 48 gas processing to RNG, gas storage, and frontier markets like hydrogen, and the operators and projects behind them.