US Patent Issued to Publichnoe Aktsionernoe Obshchestvo "NOVATEK" on June 16 for "Liquefied natural gas production facility on gravity-based structures" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,058, issued on June 16, was assigned to Publichnoe Aktsionernoe Obshchestvo "NOVATEK" (Tarko-Sale, Russia).

"Liquefied natural gas production facility on gravity-based structures" was invented by Leonid Viktorovich Mikhelson (Moscow), Valeriy Nikolaevich Retivov (Moscow) and Sergey Gennadyevich Solovyev (Novyy Urengoy, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility includes gravity-based structures (GBSs) with process lines for liquefying natural gas. A GBS contains: tanks for each component of a mixed refrigerant, wherein a GBS process line includes a fractionating apparatus for mixed refrige...