US Patent Issued to OMV DOWNSTREAM on Sept. 22 for "Method for producing a hydrocarbon product" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,124, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to OMV DOWNSTREAM GMBH (Vienna).

"Method for producing a hydrocarbon product" was invented by Matthias Mastalir (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a hydrocarbon product from a hydrocarbon mixture containing at least 1 ppm of organically bound halogen includes providing the hydrocarbon mixture containing at least 1 ppm of organically bound halogen, heating the hydrocarbon mixture in order to obtain a gaseous hydrocarbon stream, bringing the gaseous hydrocarbon stream into contact with a composition containing at least one nitrogen compound in order to obtain a gaseous m...