US Patent Issued to Cameron International on July 21 for "Gas dehydrator and method of using same" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,962, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cameron International Corp. (Houston).

"Gas dehydrator and method of using same" was invented by Gary W. Sams (Houston), Luis Eduardo Caires-Fernandez (Houston), Glen Andrew Hay (Calgary, Canada), Meng Shi (Houston) and Robert Douglass (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein generally relate to recycling, or reducing flaring or venting, of vent gases from glycol based dehydration of natural gas. Some systems and methods use high pressure gas, high pressure glycol, or pump-assisted high pressure glycol to provide motive energy to draw reflux gas and/or skimme...