US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK on Feb. 24 for "Methane hydrate production equipment and method" (British, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,042, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Methane hydrate production equipment and method" was invented by David A. Anderson (Montrose, Great Britain), Fiona Robertson (Aberdeen, Great Britain), Paul Clark (Aberdeen, Great Britain) and Robin Rajan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for subsea operations and associated methods are disclosed. The system includes a well adapter to be associated with a production or monitoring well where the well adapter can receive a cap for capping the production or monitoring well and can receive a valve package to ...