Abstract: A continuous process is described for contacting an olefins-containing feed gas stream, which has been freed of CO.sub.2 and sulfur compounds, compressed, cooled, and dried, with a solvent in an intercooled and reboiled demethanizing absorber to produce a rich solvent bottom stream containing ethylene and heavier hydrocarbons and an absorber overhead stream which is fed to a methane absorber which recovers a hydrogen product stream as overhead and produces a rich solvent stream as bottoms. When recovering up to 50% of the incoming hydrogen, this rich solvent stream from the methane absorber is fed to the demethanizing absorber, but when recovering from 20% to 100% of the incoming hydrogen, this rich solvent stream is recycled in part to the demethanizing absorber and in part is fed to a methane stripper which sends its bottoms to the methane absorber and its overhead to an auto refrigerated recovery unit which removes H.sub.2, CH.sub.4, and CO as a fuel gas product and produces an ethylene and heavier stream.