US Patent Issued to J. Ray McDermott on Dec. 9 for "Compression heat integrated high efficiency offshore process platform unit" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,626, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to J. Ray McDermott S.A. (Houston).

"Compression heat integrated high efficiency offshore process platform unit" was invented by Venkata Krishnan Ramanujam (Sugar Land, Texas) and Srinivas Rajabahadur Arcot (Fulshear, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for processing oil and gas at an offshore facility includes a single stage separation module. A gas stream from the single stage separation module is pressurized in a primary compressor, and then is used to heat the incoming oil and gas upstream of the single stage separation module. Flash gas from treatment of an oil stream from the single...