ASSOCIATED PETROLEUM GAS. Latest granted patents 2016-2018. Associated Petroleum Gas
Summary
Associated petroleum gas has long been an unwanted waste product of the oil industry, either completely flared or pumped back into the well. However, at present, in connection with the growth of the culture of oil production and the increase in environmental norms and standards, new technologies are emerging that allow not only to reduce the volume of flaring to the limit, but also to ensure the economically beneficial utilization of associated gas. Since transportation of associated gas for processing is not always possible, on-site gas conversion technologies are of great interest.
Among them, we must first of all mention Gas to liquid and Gas to Power. The latter is the most popular in view of the high consumption of electricity during oil production. Gas to liquid technologies are still expensive, but they have a number of advantages, primarily due to the possibility of producing liquid fuels that are easy to store and transport. It is important to note that for the application of these technologies, gas must pass through a complex purification system that meets modern environmental requirements. Clearly, the progress in APG is of commercial interest to oil producers. This patent bulletin is a concise, systematic analysis of the latest patent decisions in the field and allows you to track the prevailing trends and industry leaders.
The present bulletin reviews patents granted by patent offices around the globe in 2016-2018 in the field related associated petroleum gas. General research methodology can be found on the Advanced Energy Technologies website. 832 patent documents from 19 patent offices around the world are represented in the bulletin. In total, 400 applicants from 24 countries and 1038 subgroups of the International Patent Classification are mentioned.
Key Highlights
The bulletin contains statistical data on the distribution of patent documents by years, by patent offices and by applicant countries, applicant-related data (residents and non-residents), data on the most frequently mentioned International Patent Classification divisions (sections, classes, subclasses, groups, and subgroups). The top three patent offices that granted the largest number of patents were USPTO (US), CNIPA (CN) and IP Australia.
For each of the patent documents selected for the examination in the present bulletin the characteristics of unified indicators were preliminary defined, they include: technical problems, types of inventive solutions employed, belonging to one or other technological segment. This allows the internal content for each of the indicators in the aggregate array of documents to be visualized, for instance, to define the sequence and proportional correlation of technical problems the inventive solutions disclosed in the texts aim to solve. A list of the top 10 groups consisting of patent documents with identical unified indicators contains ID numbers and applicant names of respective documents; the groups are sorted by the number of patent documents.
A list of the top 10 applicants by the number of patent documents includes ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company (USA), ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (USA), Velocys Inc (USA), General Electric (USA), Siluria Technologies Inc (USA), ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. (USA), Haldor Topsoe A/S (Denmark), Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Arabia), Hershkowitz Frank (USA), and Johnson Matthey Plc (the United Kingdom). Data representing the share in the established intellectual property market, distribution of patent by problems, IPC sections, patent offices is provided in the form of tables and diagrams for them.
The prominent documents pages contain the top 10 patents with the highest bibliographical rating, the most extensive coverage of IPC sections, and the shortest patent pending time.
The conclusive part of the bulletin represents the lists of all of the documents reviewed, arranged by the top 10 groups of patent documents with identical unified indicators and by patent offices with the indication of the ID numbers of the granted patents.
Who needs this bulletin?
The proposed patent statistics bulletin allows the existing trends in the intellectual property market of the specified industrial sector to be timely traced, as well as the possibility of acquiring a carefully selected list of patent documents fully corresponding to the specified subject. The bulletin can be useful for inventors, engineers, scientific workers, and business representatives, who are focused on the development of associated petroleum gas.
