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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1998
Phaidon Daskopoulos, Amsterdam, NL;
Alexander Michiel Mollinger, Rijswijk, NL;
Paul Dirk Schilte, Rijswijk, NL;
Robert Gerard Smeenk, Rijswijk, NL;
Paulus Henricus Verbeek, Rijswijk, NL;
Marinus Hendricus Verbruggen, Rijswijk, NL;
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a method of reducing an amount of a waste component present in a hydrocarbon fluid produced from an earth formation via a wellbore formed in the earth formation, the hydrocarbon fluid flowing in a stream of fluid through the wellbore. The method includes the steps of: a) inducing at least part of the amount of the waste component to move into a second fluid present in the stream of fluid as the stream flows through the wellbore; and b) separating the second fluid with the at least part of the amount of the waste component included therein, from the hydrocarbon fluid.