PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16223821
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["166", "305100"]

Abstract:
A method comprising: flowing gas from a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation through a wellhead to yield produced gas; flowing the produced gas through a wellhead line to one or more wellsite processing units to yield wellsite processed gas; and flowing the wellsite processed gas through a gathering line to a gas processing plant, a gas pipeline transmission system, or both, wherein the wellhead line, the gathering line, or both comprise polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) pipe having a nominal pipe size of equal to or greater than 2 inches and equal to or less than 16 inches.

Claim (Index 24):
A method comprising:\n recovering fluid from a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation through a wellhead to yield a recovered fluid; and flowing the recovered fluid through (i) a gathering system conveying the recovered fluid from the wellhead to a processing unit to produce a processed fluid, (ii) a pipeline transmission system transporting the processed fluid from the processing unit to a distribution point or a storage facility; (iii) a distribution system distributing the processed fluid from the distribution point or storage facility to one or more end users; or (iv) combinations thereof, wherein the gathering system, the pipeline transmission system, the distribution system, or combinations thereof comprise one or more flow lines comprising PVDF pipe having a nominal pipe size of equal to or greater than 2 inches and equal to or less than 36 inches and wherein the processed fluid is natural gas and wherein the pipeline transmission system, the distribution system, or both comprises PVDF pipe having an SDR of 7 and a maximum operating pressure (MOP) of 666 psig, a SDR of 9 and a MOP of 500, an SDR of 11 and a MOP of 400, an SDR of 17 and a MOP of 250, an SDR of 21 and a MOP of 200, or a SDR of 26 and a MOP of 160, wherein the MOP is determined according to the equation:\n MOP=[2 (HDB) (DF)/(SDR\u22121)], \n where MOP is maximum operating pressure in psig, HDB is hydrostatic design basis in psi as determined in accordance with ASTM Test Method D2837 at a temperature of 73\u00b0 F.=5000 psi, DF is the deign factor=0.4 for regulated natural gas distribution systems, and SDR is standard dimension ratio which is the outside diameter of the pipe in inches divided by the pipe minimum wall thickness in inches.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94545
- Patent Class: 166.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12955786', '14783769', '14832612', '10660725', '14495929']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7285557925253394
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4642920909929343
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7021294223720989
- Mean Citation Score: 132.61099
- Max Citation Score: 139.1095
- Similarity Product: 94.76514301145076

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

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