Patent ID: 9488038
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: E21B

Claim Text:
1. Equipment for the conveying and recovery of a stream of hydrocarbons from an underwater well under uncontrolled release conditions, comprising a chamber for the separation of said hydrocarbon stream leaving said well, into a heavy phase and a light phase, means being envisaged, in connection with said separation chamber, for conveying said heavy phase and said light phase, towards the surface, wherein it comprises a directioning body of said hydrocarbon stream, having a substantially cylindrical shape, or as a truncated paraboloid with both ends open, wherein a first end is an inlet of said hydrocarbon stream leaving said well, and a second end, distal with respect to the inlet of said hydrocarbon stream, is in fluid connection with said separation chamber with the interpositioning of a perforated spherical cap, wherein at least a portion of said separation chamber extends annularly about at least one of said perforated cap and said directioning body.