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ProSep To Expand Whiting Petroleum's Wickett CO₂ Facility

March 2009 - ProSep Technologies, Inc., has received a PO to expand its current membrane unit operating at Whiting Petroleum’s Wickett CO₂ Removal Facility in West Texas. ProSep’s expansion equipment will increase treating capacity from 40 MMSCFD to 60 MMSCFD.

Whiting Petroleum's 50% increase in production called for the additional equipment despite the better-than-design performance and additional treating capacity of the existing membrane equipment. The plant reduces the CO₂ content from over 90% to below 10%.

"The modularity of the membrane technology and the re-use of the initial equipment engineering will make this seemingly substantial treating capacity expansion very seamless and cost-effective," said Lew Mologne, President of ProSep Technologies, Inc.

The Wickett facility recovers CO₂ from high-CO₂ associated gas for EOR re-injection. ProSep's expansion equipment is scheduled to be delivered in Q3 09.