US Patent Issued to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL, SINOPEC EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE on June 3 for "Application of naphthenic imidazoline in inhibiting formation of natural gas hydrates and composition containing same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,871, issued on June 3, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and SINOPEC EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Beijing).

"Application of naphthenic imidazoline in inhibiting formation of natural gas hydrates and composition containing same" was invented by Lihong Yang (Beijing), Jiayuan He (Beijing), Haibo Wang (Beijing), Shengyou Zhou (Beijing), Xin Huang (Beijing), Kefeng Yang (Beijing), Shibo Hao (Beijing), Le Zhang (Beijing), Xueqi Cen (Beijing) and Guoxing Chai (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Naphthenic imidazoline can be used in inhibiting formation of natural gas hydrate. A composition contai...