ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,775, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to POLYVALOR LP (Montreal, Canada).

"Natural gas refining unit for integration at a battery site of an oil production facility" was invented by Gregory Patience (Mount-Royal, Canada) and Federico Galli (Sherbrooke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a natural gas refining unit and a method for converting natural gas into a refined product at a battery site of an oil production facility. The refining unit comprises an optional vapor-liquid separator configured to separate an oil-water emulsion from a pipeline of the battery site into a liquid phase and a gas phase comprising na...