US Patent Issued to Publichnoe Aktsionernone Obshchestvo "NOVATEK" on June 23 for "Offshore production facility for producing, treating and refining raw gas" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,787, issued on June 23, was assigned to Publichnoe Aktsionernone Obshchestvo "NOVATEK" (Tarko-Sale, Russia).

"Offshore production facility for producing, treating and refining raw gas" was invented by Dmitriy Vladimirovich Akimov (Moscow), Leonid Viktorovich Mikhelson (Moscow), Sergey Gennadyevich Solovyev (Novyy Urengoy, Russia) and Oleg Yakovlevich Sochnev (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An offshore industrial complex for raw gas extraction, treatment, and processing includes a gravity-based structure (GBS) with a topside on it, including a drilling facility with drilling rig, flare unit, process equipment for raw gas treatm...