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US 12,522,775 · App. 18/549,674 · Granted Jan 13, 2026

Natural gas refining unit for integration at a battery site of an oil production facility

Inventors: Gregory Patience (Mount-Royal, CA); Federico Galli (Sherbrooke, CA)
Assignee: POLYVALOR, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
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Patent No.
US 12,522,775
App. No.
18/549,674
Granted
Jan 13, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided a natural gas refining unit and a method for converting natural gas into a refined product at a battery site of an oil production facility. The refining unit comprises an optional vapor-liquid separator configured to separate an oil-water emulsion from a pipeline of the battery site into a liquid phase and a gas phase comprising natural gas, and a reactor, or a plurality of reactors connected in series, configured to convert natural gas from the vapor-liquid separator or, when the vapor-liquid separator is absent, from a treater of the battery site into the refined product. The method comprises the steps of collecting the natural gas at the battery site and feeding the natural gas to a natural gas refining unit.

Claims (64)

1 . A natural gas refining unit for converting natural gas into a refined product at a battery site of an oil production facility, the battery site being equipped with one or more of a pipeline delivering an oil-water emulsion from an oil field to the battery site; a treater for separating the oil-water emulsion into crude oil, water, and a gas phase comprising natural gas; a crude oil collection system for collecting the crude oil from the treater; a water collection system for collecting the water from the treater; a flare for burning the gas phase from the treater; a gas burner for heating the treater; and an electrical supply, the natural gas refining unit comprising:

optionally, a first vapor-liquid separator in fluid communication with the pipeline,

the first vapor-liquid separator being configured to separate the oil-water emulsion from the pipeline into a gas phase comprising natural gas and a liquid phase and to feed the liquid phase to the treater, and

a reactor, or a plurality of reactors connected in series, in fluid communication with the first vapor-liquid separator or, when the first vapor-liquid separator is absent, with the treater,

the reactor or the plurality of reactors being configured to convert the natural gas from the gas phase from the first vapor-liquid separator or, when the first vapor-liquid separator is absent, from the gas phase from the treater into the refined product, wherein the refined product is contained in a liquid/gas mixture,

wherein the reactor or the plurality of reactors is:

an oxidative coupling reactor,

a direct methane conversion reactor, or

a methane reformer connected in series with another reactor,

wherein the methane reformer is an autothermal reforming (ATR) reactor or a catalytic partial oxidation (CPOX) reactor, wherein the methane reformer is configured to convert the natural gas into syngas, and wherein said other reactor is in fluid communication with the methane reformer and is configured to convert the syngas into the liquid/gas mixture containing the refined product,

wherein:

the first vapor-liquid separator is present and configured to feed the gas phase comprising natural gas to the reactor or the plurality of reactors, and the reactor or the plurality of reactors is configured to receive the gas phase comprising natural gas from the first vapor-liquid separator and to feed the liquid/gas mixture containing the refined product to the treater

or

the first vapor-liquid separator is absent, the reactor or the plurality of reactors is configured to receive the gas phase comprising natural gas from the treater, the natural gas refining unit further comprises a second vapor-liquid separator in fluid communication with the reactor or the plurality of reactors and configured to separate the liquid/gas mixture containing the refined product into an off gas and at least one liquid phase containing the refined product.

2 . A battery site of an oil production facility, the battery site comprising one or more of a pipeline delivering an oil-water emulsion from an oil field to the battery site; a treater for separating the oil-water emulsion into crude oil, water, and a gas phase comprising natural gas; a crude oil collection system for collecting the crude oil from the treater; a water collection system for collecting the water from the treater; a flare for burning the gas phase from the treater; a gas burner for heating the treater; and an electrical supply,

wherein the battery site further comprises the natural gas refining unit of claim 1 .

3 . The natural gas refining unit of claim 1 , wherein the first vapor-liquid separator is present.

4 . The natural gas refining unit of claim 1 , wherein the first vapor-liquid separator is absent.

5 . The natural gas refining unit of claim 4 , wherein the second vapor-liquid separator is configured to release the liquid phase containing the refined product to the treater, thereby heating the treater.

6 . The natural gas refining unit of claim 4 , wherein the second vapor-liquid separator is a three-phase separator configured to separate the liquid/gas mixture into the off gas, an aqueous phase, and an oil phase containing the refined product, and

wherein the natural gas refining unit further comprises a tank for receiving the oil phase containing the refined product phase released from the three-phase separator, or the three-phase separator is configured to release the oil phase containing the refined product phase into the crude oil collection system of the battery site,

and/or

wherein the three-phase separator is configured to release the aqueous phase into the water collection system of the battery site,

and/or

wherein the second vapor-liquid separator is configured to release the off gas to the gas burner of the battery site or to the flare of the battery site.

7 . The natural gas refining unit of claim 1 , further comprising a heat exchange system circulating a heat transfer fluid and configured to cool a portion of the natural gas refining unit, wherein the heat exchange system comprises at least one cooling heat exchanger installed in said portion of the natural gas refining unit, wherein the heat exchange system is configured to heat the treater and to discharge the heat transfer fluid in the treater.

8 . The natural gas refining unit of claim 1 , further comprising a heat exchange system circulating a heat transfer fluid and configured to cool a portion of the natural gas refining unit, wherein the heat exchange system comprises at least one cooling heat exchanger installed in said portion of the natural gas refining unit, wherein the heat exchange system further comprises a heating heat exchanger configured to heat the treater, wherein the cooling heat exchanger and the heating heat exchanger are in fluid communication with each other and arranged to send hot heat transfer fluid from the cooling heat exchanger to the heating heat exchanger.

9 . The natural gas refining unit of claim 8 , wherein the cooling heat exchanger and the heating heat exchanger are further configured to return cool heat transfer fluid from the cooling heat exchanger to the heating heat exchanger,

or

wherein the heat transfer fluid is water and the heat exchange system is configured to discharge cool heat transfer fluid to the water collection system of the battery site.

10 . The natural gas refining unit of claim 1 , further comprising a heat exchange system circulating a heat transfer fluid and configured to cool a portion of the natural gas refining unit, wherein the heat exchange system comprises at least one cooling heat exchanger installed in said portion of the natural gas refining unit, wherein the heat transfer fluid is water, and wherein

the heat exchange system is configured to use water from the water collection system of the battery unit as the heat transfer liquid,

or

the heat exchange system is configured to use water from the treater as the heat transfer liquid,

or

the heat exchange system is configured to use the aqueous phase from the three-phase separator as the heat transfer liquid.

11 . The natural gas refining unit of claim 1 , wherein the reactor or the plurality of reactors is the methane reformer connected in series with said other reactor, wherein the methane reformer is a catalytic partial oxidation (CPOX) reactor, and said other reactor is a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reactor.

12 . A method of using the natural gas refining unit of claim 1 for converting natural gas into a refined product at a battery site of an oil production facility, the battery site being equipped with one or more of a pipeline delivering an oil-water emulsion from an oil field to the battery site; a treater for separating the oil-water emulsion into crude oil, water, and a gas phase comprising natural gas; a crude oil collection system for collecting the crude oil from the treater; a water collection system for collecting the water from the treater; a flare for burning the gas phase from the treater; a gas burner for heating the treater; and an electrical supply, the method comprising the steps of:

a) collecting the natural gas at the battery site,

b) feeding the natural gas to the natural gas refining unit, and

c) collecting the refined product.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein step a) comprises

feeding the oil-water emulsion to a first vapor-liquid separator, thereby separating a gas phase containing natural gas from the oil-water emulsion,

and collecting the gas phase containing natural gas,

wherein the refined product is contained in a liquid/gas mixture, and

wherein the method further comprises step d) of feeding the liquid/gas mixture to the treater.

14 . The method of claim 12 , wherein step a) comprises collecting the gas phase containing natural gas from the treater,

wherein the refined product is contained in a liquid/gas mixture, and

wherein the method further comprises step d′) of feeding the liquid/gas mixture to a second vapor-liquid separator to separate the liquid/gas mixtures into its constituent an off gas and a liquid phase containing the refined product.

15 . The method of claim 14 , further comprising the step e) of releasing the liquid phase containing the refined product to the treater, thereby heating the treater.

16 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the second vapor-liquid separator is a three-phase separator and, in step d′), the liquid/gas mixture is separated into an off gas, an aqueous phase, and an oil phase containing the refined product, and wherein the method further comprises the step e′) of releasing the oil phase containing the refined product to a tank or the step e″) of releasing the oil phase containing the refined product to the crude oil collection system of the battery site,

and/or

wherein the method further comprises the step f) of releasing the aqueous phase into the water collection system of the battery site,

and/or

wherein the method further comprises the step g) of releasing the off gas to the gas burner of the battery site or the step g′) of releasing the off gas to the flare of the battery site.

17 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising the step h) of cooling a portion of the natural gas refining unit using a heat exchange system circulating a heat transfer fluid and configured to cool a portion of the natural gas refining unit, wherein the heat exchange system comprises at least one cooling heat exchanger installed in said portion of the natural gas refining unit, wherein the method further comprises the step i) of heating the treater using the heat exchange system by discharging hot heat transfer fluid from the cooling heat exchanger in the treater.

18 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising the step h) of cooling a portion of the natural gas refining unit using a heat exchange system circulating a heat transfer fluid and configured to cool a portion of the natural gas refining unit, wherein the heat exchange system comprises at least one cooling heat exchanger installed in said portion of the natural gas refining unit, further comprising the step i) of heating the treater using the heat exchange system by heating a heat exchanger configured to heat the treater using hot heat transfer fluid from the cooling heat exchanger.

19 . The method of claim 18 , further comprising the step j) of returning cool heat transfer fluid to the cooling heat exchanger, or the step j′) of discharging cool heat transfer fluid to the water collection system of the battery site.

20 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising the step h) of cooling a portion of the natural gas refining unit using a heat exchange system circulating a heat transfer fluid and configured to cool a portion of the natural gas refining unit, wherein the heat transfer fluid is water, and wherein:

the water is collected from the water collection system of the battery unit and used as the heat transfer liquid,

or

the water is collected from the treater unit and used as the heat transfer liquid,

or

wherein the aqueous phase from the three-phase separator is used as the heat transfer liquid.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 8, 2023
From: PATIENCE, GREGORY; GALLI, FEDERICO
To: CORPORATION DE L'ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTREAL
Reel/Frame 064844/0675 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 8, 2023
From: CORPORATION DE L'ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTREAL
To: POLYVALOR, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
Reel/Frame 064844/0833 →
Continuity (2)
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