PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15932078
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["166", "357000"]

Abstract:
A modular ‘Sea Level Gas Separator of Oil Well Effluent’ (SLGOE) unit is devised to prevent damage to the riser/conductor, as well as precluding the gas entrainment reaching the rig, upon a well blow-out. The effluent, after a blow-out, is let into ‘gas-separator’ tank of the unit, entering as a down-flow, whereby instantaneous separation of the gases is effectuated. Massively clustered top outlets let off the rising gases to a distant destination. An immensely pressured gas entrainment is attenuated by enormous receptive volume of the multiple upstream outlets of the tanks, the containing volume and pressure of a gas being inversely proportional. The gas entrainment is further precluded to entrain into the down-streaming oil of the tanks, reaching a different destination. When the drilling conductor is breached, an ‘oil separator’ tank separates the oil from admixed water, whereby the pollution of oceanic water is also precluded.

Claim (Index 6):
With a breach in the drilling conductor with at least partial cessation of the SLGOE unit functions, an \u2018Oil-separator of water-admixed effluent\u2019 as in  claim 1 , is devised to separate the water of the admixed effluent, wherein said \u2018oil separator\u2019 tank has means and methods, as below\u2014\n (a) following a breach to the drilling conductor, with the fluid column and the pressure within the riser equalizing with ocean waters, a \u2018window closure\u2019 with a built in \u2018outflow tubing\u2019 is deployed to replace an existing \u2018window closure\u2019 of the drilling conductor (without an outlet tubing  1 ), the \u2018outflow tubing\u2019 with merging tubules starting from the bottom space between the conductor and the riser, to divert the water admixed effluent to said \u2018Oil-separator\u2019 tank, by syphoning means; \n (b) subject to relative densities of the two liquid bodies concerned, the water settles to the bottom of the \u2018oil-separator\u2019 tank, whereas the oil rises to the top, as the admixed effluent enters the tank through aside \u2018inflow tube\u2019 near the top of the tank; \n (c) about midway level of the tank, the oil leaves through an oil-outlet, whereas from the bottom, the water flows back into the ocean, whereas the inflow from the side tube is configured as a tempered merging into the top column, thereby preventing undue perturbations about the settled layers of differing densities; \n (d) additionally, a similar \u2018outflow tubing\u2019 with a smaller \u2018window closure\u2019 and a terminal dipping lower than the surface water, starts from the top space between the conductor and the riser, to also enter the \u2018Oil-separator\u2019 tank, \n (e) the outflowing water into the ocean is periodically tested and controlled, for its hydrocarbon content; \n (f) wherein a leg is elected for the stationing of the EOS and MOS units, the oil-separator tank can be stationed along with, \n (g) the \u2018outflow tubing\u2019 are clustered with other tubing also exiting from the riser and the conductor, so that only their too strings have such outlet provisions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82796
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14756973', '13134370', '13151669', '12583302', '14572492']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7648041294794028
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5419923405951117
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7425229505909737
- Mean Citation Score: 217.057272
- Max Citation Score: 401.58264
- Similarity Product: 317.05353873025416

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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