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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
May. 29, 2008
Moinuddin Khan, Houston, TX (US);
Andrew Kurkjian, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Stephen C. Leviness, Tulsa, OK (US);
Keith Massie, Aberdeen, GB;
John Nighswander, Houston, TX (US);
Moinuddin Khan, Houston, TX (US);
Andrew Kurkjian, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Stephen C. Leviness, Tulsa, OK (US);
Keith Massie, Aberdeen, GB;
John Nighswander, Houston, TX (US);
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of tracking production from an NG source that includes the steps of providing one or more micro-scale GTL units, feeding NG from the source to the micro-scale GTL units, operating the micro-scale GTL units and adjusting the number of micro-scale GTL units employed to track or match the production from the source is provided. In some aspects of the invention, the micro-scale GTL unit includes both syngas manufacture and liquid product synthesis. The liquid product synthesis step may produce methanol, mixed higher carbon number alcohols, dimethyl ether, Fischer-Tropsch liquids, and/or any combination of these products.