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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:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2007
Edwin Poorte, Nesbru, NO;
Ola Skrøvseth, Østerås, NO;
Asbjørn Eriksen, Skallestad, NO;
Karl Olav Haram, Oslo, NO;
Julian Van Der Merwe, Leidschendam, NL;
Edwin Poorte, Nesbru, NO;
Ola Skrøvseth, Østerås, NO;
Asbjørn Eriksen, Skallestad, NO;
Karl Olav Haram, Oslo, NO;
Julian Van Der Merwe, Leidschendam, NL;
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of processing a multiphase well effluent mixture comprises: transferring the multiphase well effluent mixture (G+L) via a multiphase well effluent flowline () to a gas liquid separator () in which the multiphase well effluent mixture is separated into substantially gaseous and liquid fractions; transferring the substantially liquid fraction L into a liquid flowline () in which a liquid pump () is arranged; transferring the substantially gaseous fraction into a gas flowline () in which a gas compressor () is arranged; protecting the gas compressor () against pressure and/or liquid surges by recirculating a recycled gas stream (G) via a gas recycling conduit () through the gas compressor in response to detection of a pressure and/or liquid surge in the multiphase well effluent mixture; cooling the recycled gas stream by injecting cooled recycled liquid (L) from the liquid flowline () into the recycled gas stream (G) which recycled liquid is cooled in a heat exchanger (), which may be a compact liquid-liquid heat exchanger that is about ten times smaller than a bulky gas-liquid heat exchanger that could be arranged in the gas recycling conduit ().
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