NOVELTY - Sweetening natural gas to liquefied natural gas specifications, comprises: providing a membrane contactor having a lumen side and a shell side; introducing a feed natural gas to the lumen side of the membrane contactor; introducing an absorption solvent to the shell side of the membrane contactor; and removing carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide with the absorption solvent from the feed natural gas resulting in a sweetened natural gas containing less than 50 parts per million by volume (ppmv) of carbon dioxide and less than 4 ppmv of hydrogen sulfide.    USE - The process is useful for sweetening natural gas to liquefied natural gas specifications on an offshore platform, barge or ship (claimed).    ADVANTAGE - The process is capable of efficiently sweetening natural gas to liquefied natural gas specifications using the compact, stable and light weight offshore system without cooling the natural gas to -160 degrees C and with reduction, minimization or elimination of foaming and liquid maldistribution (channeling), thus reducing picking-up contaminants and decreasing the potential or possibility of solvent degradation.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is included for an offshore system for sweetening natural gas to liquefied natural gas specifications, comprising a first membrane contactor having a lumen side for introduction of a sour natural gas and a shell side for introduction of an absorption solvent, where the membrane contactor is effective to remove carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from the sour natural gas with the absorption solvent to form a carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide containing solvent stream and a sweetened natural gas stream containing less than 50 ppmv of carbon dioxide and less than 4 ppmv of hydrogen sulfide and a second membrane contactor effective to strip carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from the carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide containing solvent stream to form a regenerated absorption solvent stream.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The figure shows a perspective view of a membrane contactor module for sweetening natural gas to liquefied natural gas specifications.    Membrane contactor module (110)    Hollow fiber membrane cartridge (112)    Pressure vessel housing (114)    Natural gas outlet port (120)    Lean absorption solvent inlet port. (122)