US Patent Issued to BCCK Holding on Dec. 23 for "System and method for natural gas liquid production with flexible ethane recovery or rejection" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,227, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to BCCK Holding Co. (Midland, Texas).

"System and method for natural gas liquid production with flexible ethane recovery or rejection" was invented by Rayburn C. Butts (Midland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for processing an NGL product stream from a natural gas feed stream in either an ethane retention or ethane rejection mode utilizing heat exchange of particular process streams. In ethane rejection mode, there are preferably two stages of heat exchange between the feed stream and a first separator bottoms stream and a side stream withdrawn from a fractionation tower ...