公开(公告)号：US20250034000A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-30

申请号：US18784381

申请日：2024-07-25

Applicant: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY

Inventor： Carl Jonas RYDLAND

IPC: C02F1/04 ,  C02F103/34

Abstract: The rate of evaporation in an evaporation pond containing contaminated produced or process water from a hydrocarbon production operation is increased by pumping water from just beneath the surface of the pond through a pipe extending around the periphery of the pond. The water is dispensed around the periphery of the pond from ports in the pipe and then trickles down into the pond water. The pond has a black plastic lining, with a border region that is not submerged. The water from the pipe trickles down across the un-submerged black lining that is at an elevated temperature due to radiative solar heating, and energy is thereby imparted to the water to increase the rate of evaporation.

公开(公告)号：US20220081996A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-17

申请号：US17469354

申请日：2021-09-08

Applicant: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY

Inventor： Carl Jonas RYDLAND

IPC: E21B41/00 ,  F02C6/10

Abstract: A method of raising the pressure of a natural gas stream (9) on an oil or gas producing installation (1) comprises using an existing high pressure gas stream (13) at the installation to drive the turbine (12) of a turbo-compressor unit (10). It is common on oil and gas producing installations to require the pressure of a gas stream to be increased by a small amount, e.g. to allow flare gas to be fed to the production gas train thereby avoiding flaring. This system may replace the current practice of using ejectors for this purpose since ejectors are very inefficient. However, it can be advantageous to feed the output of the turbine side (12) of the turbo-compressor (10) to an ejector which can give a small pre-boost to the low pressure natural gas (9) before it enters the compressor side (11) of the turbo-compressor (10). (FIG. 2)