Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods to debottleneck an integrated oil and gas processing plant with sour gas injection
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Application No.: US15971698Application Date: 2018-05-04
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Publication No.: US10363518B2Publication Date: 2019-07-30
- Inventor: Daniel Chinn , Nitesh Bhuwania , Shabbir Husain , Ronald P. MacDonald , Tapan K. Das
- Applicant: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Ramon
- Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
- Current Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Ramon
- Agent Karen R. DiDomenicis
- Main IPC: B01D53/14
- IPC: B01D53/14 ; C10L3/10 ; E21B43/34

Abstract:
Disclosed are systems and methods for increasing oil production in an integrated oil and gas production plant including hydrogen sulfide removal and sour-gas injection into an underground formation. Hydrogen sulfide-selective membranes are used to debottleneck known systems and methods by removing hydrogen sulfide from bottlenecked plant process steps including sour gas compression, hydrogen sulfide removal and sour gas injection. A method of retrofitting an integrated plant includes adding a hydrogen sulfide-selective membrane upstream of an amine unit to remove hydrogen sulfide from an associated gas stream and form a permeate stream enriched in hydrogen sulfide and a retentate stream depleted in hydrogen sulfide and enriched in hydrocarbon gases. Less hydrogen sulfide is sent to the amine unit and oil production is higher than in the integrated plant without the hydrogen sulfide-selective membrane.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190105600A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DEBOTTLENECK AN INTEGRATED OIL AND GAS PROCESSING PLANT WITH SOUR GAS INJECTION Public/Granted day:2019-04-11
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