Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
166750120 | Treatment of produced fluids | 7 |
20110005742 | FLUID DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A fluid distribution apparatus including a housing configured to receive a drilling material and direct the drilling material onto a separatory surface; and a damper coupled to the housing and configured to distribute a flow of the drilling material onto the separatory surface is disclosed. | 01-13-2011 |
20110168381 | Osmotic Water Transfer System and Related Processes - A forward osmosis water transfer system is disclosed which recycles water from an incoming wastewater stream into an outgoing dilute process brine stream. The system includes a saturated brine stream, a first portion of which is diverted to form a saturated process brine stream and a second portion of which is diverted to at least one forward osmosis membrane. The at least one forward osmosis membrane moves water from the incoming wastewater stream into the incoming diverted saturated brine stream thereby creating an outgoing concentrated wastewater stream and the outgoing dilute process brine stream. | 07-14-2011 |
20120000643 | GAS-LIQUID SEPARATOR - The gas-liquid separator separates a variable multi-phase flow of gas and liquid in a gas dominated flow and a liquid dominated flow. The separator includes a housing which encloses a separation chamber, an inlet port for feeding the multi-phase flow into the separation chamber, a liquid outlet port for discharging the liquid dominated flow from the separation chamber and a gas outlet port provided at a position above both the inlet port and the liquid outlet port for discharging the gas dominated flow from the separation chamber. Both the inlet port and the liquid outlet port are positioned adjacent to an elongated lower bottom wall of the housing and define a flow direction into the and out of the separation chamber approximately aligned along the bottom wall, wherein the separation chamber extends above the bottom wall in between the inlet port and the liquid outlet port. The liquid outlet port is provided with a gas seal to prevent entrainment of free gas from the separation chamber into the liquid outlet port. The gas-liquid separator is compact and is preferably used at an offshore sub-sea position. | 01-05-2012 |
20120085530 | Treatment for Recycling Fracture Water - Gas and Oil Recovery in Shale Deposits - A method and apparatus for hydrocarbon recovery and/or treatment of frac water includes introducing a volume of water into a formation, recovering the introduced water, with the recovered introduced water further comprising suspended hydrocarbon product. The recovered liquid is treated to remove substantial amounts of the suspended hydrocarbon product, provide the treated recovered liquid with a ORP in a range of 150 mv to 1000 mv, and partially desalinated, and is either re-introduced as treated recovered liquid with the ORP into a formation to assist in recovery of additional hydrocarbon deposits in the formation, or is stored to reduce the ORP and then subsequently discharged into surface waters. | 04-12-2012 |
20120222854 | Shale shakers & separators with real time monitoring of operation & screens, killing of living things in fluids, and heater apparatus for heating fluids - Separators and shakers are disclosed with real time monitoring of screen condition; killing apparatus for killing living things in fluid flowing from a separator or shaker; and/or heating apparatus for heating material fed to or flowing from a separator or shaker. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 38 C.F.R. 1.72(b). | 09-06-2012 |
20150122481 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DE-OILING AND TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON REDUCTION IN PRODUCED WATER - Systems and methods for treatment of produced water form a steam assisted gravity drain operation are presented in which tight emulsions, total organic compounds, and solids are removed using a skim tanks that receives a multiphase mixture formed from a demulsifier and the produced water and that produces pre-treated water. The so formed pre-treated water is then subject to further total organic compounds reduction via combination with one or more oxidizing biocide to so form treated water that can be fed to a once through steam generator (OTSG) for re-injection into a formation. | 05-07-2015 |
20160047216 | WELLSITE PRODUCTION MACHINES - A wellsite production machine has a separator connectable to a wellhead, the separator having a liquids discharge line and a oil discharge level, an oil storage tank having a liquids input port to which the liquids discharge line is connected; and the storage tank having a high level line established by a high level detection apparatus, the oil discharge level of the separator being at or above the high level line of the storage tank so that liquids in the separator may flow by gravity into the storage tank. The separator and a flare stack assembly are also disclosed, along with a method of making the wellsite production machine. | 02-18-2016 |