The solubility of the major constituents of natural gas in ionic liquids (ILs) can be used to identify their potential for acid gas removal from a producing gas stream. We have developed models for the solubility of H 2 S, CH 4 , and C 2 H 6 in ILs at typical conditions encountered in natural gas treatment. In this work, a conductor-like screening model for realistic solvation was used to predict the activity coefficients for solutes in ILs and a cubic EOS was used for vapor-phase corrections from ideality. Empirical correlations were developed to extrapolate solubilities where experimental data are not available at desired conditions; targeted in this study at 298.15 K and 2000 kPa. Over 400 possible ILs were ranked based on the higher selectivity of absorption of CO 2 and H 2 S over CH 4 and C 2 H 6 . The best 15% (58) of promising ILs for sour gas treatment predominantly contain the anions BF 4 , NO 3 , and CH 3 SO 4 and the cations N 4111 , pmg, and tmg.