Newpoint Gas, LLC
10900 Hefner Pointe Drive , Suite 500 , Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Newpoint Gas was founded in 1999 by Wiley Rhodes with a vision of providing the natural gas industry with the finest, most efficient gas processing facilities. Newpoint Gas designs and manufactures a full range of modular gas processing and treating units. Our unique design provides:

• Superior equipment built to the highest industry standards
• The lowest combined installation and construction costs due to our modular designs with the interconnecting piping fabricated in the shop not the field
• Ease of operations with Newpoints patent pending start-up and process recovery systems
• Increased runtime to maximize revenue for our customers.
• Newpoint provides unmatched lead and delivery times by pre-engineering gas treating facilities with capacities of 1 million standard cubic feet to over 750. 
• We pride ourselves on our workmanship where QUALITY IS NEVER AN ACCIDENT and are continually developing a global network of quality assured fabricators.

The company quickly grew to include Wileys Dad, Quenten Rhodes, who started working in a gas processing facility for Cities Services in 1966 as well as Wileys brothers, Wade, Joe, Zane, and Jerry who make critical contributions to Newpois success.  Newpoint currently has operations in the United States located in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, West Virginia, Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico.  Newpoint continued to grow with the addition of sales and engineering offices in London and Brussels, Belgium in 2007 and Mumbai, India in 2008.  Also in 2008, The Newpoint Companies expanded to include Newpoint Thermal and Newpoint Manufacturing. Newpoint expanded into the Process Heating industry by hiring the Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing and Service personnel formerly of GTS Energy under the name Newpoint Thermal, LP. Newpoint Thermal supplies a variety of Process Heating Systems for industrial applications including Gas or Oil Fired Process Heaters, Convection Process Heaters, Process Bath Heaters, Thermal Fluid Heating Systems, High Pressure Steam Generators, and Waste Heat Recovery Systems.  Newpoint Manufacturing occupies a 134,000 sq ft purpose built facility and is headquartered in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Officially opened on 24th March 2008, Newpoint Manufacturings first task was to hire and integrate 45 personnel into the Group. Certified with R, U, and S ASME stamps, Newpoint Manufacturing will support and enhance the Groups fabrication and assembly processes globally.

Founder of Newpoint Gas in 1999. Mr. Rhodes brings nearly three decades of experience in project development, market strategy and sales. His extensive work and evaluation of prospective product and service-solution opportunities led him to the conclusion that assembling the right team was just as important as producing a superior product. Through gathering a selection of the ideal components, Mr. Rhodes has insured the success of Newpoint Gas, with an emphasis on natural gas treating and processing, nitrogen rejection, and helium purification. With an eye on market changes and new innovations, Mr. Rhodes stresses the importance of delivering quality products and superior service.

Arsi-Guard™ Arsenic Removal from Natural Gas

Arsi-Guard™ is Newpoins proprietary catalyst based system for the removal of arsenic from natural gas. Arsi-Guard™ can reduce organic arsenic concentrations to below 1 ppb to eliminate environmental liability and improve primary catalyst performance in ammonia and LNG facilities.

Benefits

• Proven system that has treated over 750 billion cubic feet of gas
• Can reduce arsenic levels to less than 1 ppb
• Eliminates environmental liability
• Can effectively remove trialkylarsines (organic arsenic)
• Newpoins Arsenic Removal Experience

The first arsenic removal system in the world was installed in 1988 at the Abo Field in New Mexico by principals at Newpoint Gas. After several trials, the resulting system has been on line and removing arsenic for over 19 years and treated a cumulative gas volume of 750 Bcf. Newpoint has experience in arsenic removal from 1200 µg/m3 (960 ppb w/w) inlet and a consistent residue concentration: <10 µg/m3 (8 ppb w/w).

History of Arsenic & Natural Gas

Arsenic has considerable economic impacts on the industries that utilize natural gas. Methanol, ammonia, and hydrogen plants all utilize catalysts that degrade over time due to the presence of catalyst poisons. The catalyst poisons, which include sulfur, mercury, and arsenic, degrade the performance of the system over time, reducing the capacity and efficiency of the plant. This has led to catalyst guard beds to remove sulfur and other catalysts poisons before the gas is introduced to the catalyst in the plants. In the case of arsenic, these guard beds have been reasonably effective in removing inorganic arsenic from the inlet natural gas stream; however, the organic arsenic compounds behave in a much less reactive manner and are not removed in the guard beds. The organic arsenic then reaches the catalyst and begins fouling it. The downtime associated with change-outs and the reduced capacity of plants due to catalyst fouling represent a considerable loss of income and a costly maintenance issue. The costs associated with arsenic fouling have been considered a “cost of doing business.” This is no longer the case; Newpoints ArsiGuard™ system has given the natural gas industry the tools to manage organic arsenic with low capital and operating costs. This treatment is efficient at ambient temperatures and can reduce organic arsenic concentrations to below 1 ppb.

CO2 Removal Process

Description Carbon dioxide membranes operate on the principle of selective permeation. Each gas component has a specific permeation rate. The rate of permeation is determined by the rate which a component dissolves into the membrane surface and the rate at which it diffuses through the membrane.  The components with higher permeation rates (such as CO2, H2, and H2S) will permeate faster through the membrane module than components with lower permeation rates (such as N2, C1, C2 and heavier hydrocarbons). For example, carbon dioxide is a "fast," more permeable, gas than methane. When a stream consisting of these two gases contacts the membrane, the carbon dioxide will permeate through the fiber at a faster rate than the methane. Thus, the feed stream is separated into a methane-rich (residual) stream on the exterior of the membrane fiber and a carbon dioxide-rich (permeate) stream on the interior of the membrane fiber.  The primary driving force of the separation is the differential partial pressure of the permeating component. Therefore, the pressure difference between the feed gas and permeate gas and the concentration of the permeating component determine the product purity and the amount of carbon dioxide membrane surface required.

Benefits of using Membranes for Removing Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

• Versatility
• Adaptability
• Environmentally friendly
• Easy to operate

All NewSafe Flares come standard with the following features:

• 40 / 3 Pipe Tower
• 3" low pressure, 3" high pressure, and 6" air assist
• 36" SS Flame Bonnet (patent pending)
• 2 HP Atlantic Blower Model ABC401 High speed blower 812CFM
• 2" Flame arrestor Enardo Series
• 3" Flame arrestor Enardo Series 7