US Patent Issued to CNX Resources on Feb. 24 for "Apparatus and method for three-phase separation at a well" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,070, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CNX Resources Corp. (Canonsburg, Pa.).

"Apparatus and method for three-phase separation at a well" was invented by Joseph M. Fink (Washington, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator fluidly connected to a wellbore includes: a vessel defining an interior chamber; an inlet for delivering fluid produced from a wellbore into the vessel at a first pressure; an outlet through which gas is directed out of the vessel at a pressure substantially equal to the first pressure; at least one liquid/oil level sensor capable of detecting the level of liquid within the interior chamber of the vessel and...