ASSOCIATED PETROLEUM GAS. Latest published applications 2017-2019. Associated Petroleum Gas
Summary
Associated petroleum gas (APG) is a hydrocarbon component dissolved in oil and released in the process of its extraction and preparation. For a long time APG was treated like an unwanted by-product and simply burnt in the field of oil production, causing the emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere and loss of valuable energy source. Today, oil companies pay attention to the effective use of APG and reduction of its burning. Among the possible ways of APG utilization is its re-injection into the oil reservoir or using it as a power source for internal needs of oil production site. The most innovative ways of utilization of associated petroleum gas are its processing into liquid hydrocarbons, conversion to petrochemical industry feedstock, dry stripped gas and stable gasoline. The wider development and implementation of these still expensive technologies will help to reduce the amount of pollutants emitted and effective use of valuable raw material for further processing. This review presents new engineering solutions in this area in the form of patent applications for inventions.
The proposed bulletin is dedicated to associated petroleum gas and includes patent applications published in 2017-2019. Research methodology is available on the Advanced Energy Technologies website. The patent bulletin includes 900 patent documents. The applications were registered in 26 patent offices around the world. 304 applicants from 26 countries participated in the development of the inventions. 942 subgroups of the International Patent Classification were encountered in the patent documents.
Key Highlights
Statistical information presented in the bulletin includes distribution of patent documents by years, by patent offices and by applicant countries, applicant-related data (residents and non-residents), and data on the most frequently mentioned International Patent Classification divisions (sections, classes, subclasses, groups, and subgroups). The largest number of applications during the period of time under revision was registered by the patent office of the USA.
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 vizualized, 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.
Data is provided for each of the top 10 applicants, leading in terms of the number of published patent documents among the ones examined in the bulletin, illustrating their share in the established intellectual property market, distribution of applications by problems, IPC sections, patent offices and technology indicators. Representatives of the USA prevail among the patenting leaders in the examined period of time. These leaders include: General Electric (USA), ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company (USA), Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Arabia), Shell Internationale Research Maatschappij B.V. (the Netherlands), ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (USA), Johnson Matthey Plc (the United Kingdom), Siluria Technologies Inc (USA), ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. (USA), Dow Global Technologies, LLC (USA), and Greyrock Energy Inc. (USA).
The prominent documents pages contain the top 10 patent applications with the highest bibliographical rating, the most extensive coverage of IPC sections, and those not being a part of patent family.
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 registered patent applications.
Who needs this bulletin?
The data provided in the proposed bulletin is a timely reflection of the transformations that take place in the intellectual property sector of the industrial direction concerned. Thoroughly edited selection of patent documents can become a good complement to your library of available technical solutions. The bulletin is targeted at inventors, engineers, researchers, managers and business administrators involved in the development of unconventional gas production technologies.
