US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Jan. 13 for "Flow assurance in a flare gas recovery unit" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,729, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Flow assurance in a flare gas recovery unit" was invented by Mohamud M. Farah (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulaziz Al-Qahtani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for flow assurance for a flare gas recovery unit are provided. An exemplary flow assurance system includes a knockout drum having a flare header coupled to an inlet, a high-efficiency separator coupled to an outlet of the knockout drum, a magnetic separator coupled to the outlet of the high-efficiency separator, and a multistage compression syste...