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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Syntroleum Corporation, Tulsa, OK (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10G / ; E21B / ; E21B / ; E21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
166354 ; 37323 ; 37343 ; 166352 ; 166357 ; 166248 ; 166267 ; 166302 ; 166370 ; 166372 ; 166 7512 ; 210170 ; 299-8 ; 518702 ; 518703 ; 585 15 ;
Abstract
A system for recovering liquid hydrocarbons from hydrates on an ocean floor includes a vessel, a positioning subsystem coupled to the vessel for holding the vessel in a desired location over a hydrate formation, a hydrate recovery subsystem coupled to the vessel for delivering hydrates from an ocean floor to the vessel and separating gas from hydrates removed from an ocean floor, a gas conversion subsystem coupled to the hydrate recovery subsystem for converting gas to liquids, and a storage and removal subsystem. Excess energy from the gas conversion subsystem is used elsewhere in the system. A method of recovering hydrates from an ocean floor is also provided.