ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,364, issued on May 13, was assigned to Equinor Energy AS (Stavanger, Norway).
"Gas compressor cleaning" was invented by Lars Brenne (Sandnes, Norway), Svend Tarald Kibsgaard (Porsgrunn, Norway), Tor Bjorge (Trondheim, Norway) and Harald Underbakke (Sandnes, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cleaning deposited solid material from a fouled portion of a gas compressor (6) whilst the gas compressor (6) is in situ in a natural gas processing system (1) is provided. The method comprises the steps of supplying a liquid cleaning agent to a gas inlet of the gas compressor (6), the liquid cleaning agent being capable of removin...