PennTex North Louisiana LLC selected Honeywell company UOP LLC to engineer, procure and construct a gas processing plant for NGL recovery in northern Louisiana, UOP announced on Oct. 14. The new plant will have a processing capacity of 200 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of natural gas and will enter service during fourth-quarter 2015.

This plant is the second that PennTex awarded UOP in northern Louisiana. PennTex also entered a letter of intent with UOP to purchase a third 200 MMcf/d cryogenic plant, scheduled for delivery in November 2015.

For both projects, UOP will supply and install the modular cryogenic, dehydration, acid gas removal, inlet/residue compression, control system, flare system and site electrical equipment. It will also provide site utility systems and buildings for office, control room, motor control center, and compressor requirements.