US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Dec. 2 for "Method of reducing mercury in stabilized condensate" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,029, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Method of reducing mercury in stabilized condensate" was invented by Christine Marie Long (El Cerrito, Calif.), Daniel Chinn (Danville, Calif.), Jinhua Bai (Katy, Texas), Russell E. Cooper (Martinez, Calif.) and Joshua A. Thompson (Martinez, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a method for removing elemental mercury from liquid natural gas comprising changing the stabilizer column operating conditions to beneficially transfer mercury from the stabilized condensate phase to the overhead gas phase, where it may be comp...