US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 8 for "Recovery of natural gas liquids from a gas stream" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,495, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Recovery of natural gas liquids from a gas stream" was invented by Khurram Saeed Chishti (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia) and Ahmed Dhiya Al Ahmed (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing of a feed gas stream containing methane and natural gas liquids may comprise: cooling a first portion of the feed gas stream to obtain a cooled first portion; introducing the cooled first portion into a liquid-vapor separator to obtain a vapor stream and a liquid stream; splitting the vapor stream into a first portion and a second portion; su...