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 1):
A preferred prototype model of a Sea Level Gas Separator of Oil Well Effluent' (SLGOE) unit, structured in a rig vicinity about the oceanic surface, wherein the unit and its accessories are devised to prevent a damage to the structures deployed within a margine riser, as also they prevent a giant entrainment of inflammable gases entereing the rig upon a failure of the BOP, the SLGOE unit embodying the means and methods as set forth below-\n (a) the SLGOE unit incorporating a gas separator tank, and an oil passage' tank, the tanks arranged in a stepwise manner within a modular, so as to facilitate an effluent flow from the gas separator tank to a lower level oil passage tank, by forces of gravity, (b) following a blow-out, the effluent from within a marine riser is diverted to an oil \u2018diversion tubing\u2019 terminating as an inlet tube of the gas separator tank of the SLGOE unit, (c) the gas separator tank having said inlet tube entering about its top, for the effluent to be \u2018down-flowing\u2019 to its bottom, (d) the gaseous elements instantly separating from the \u2018down-flowing\u2019 effluent, subject to be collecting about the top of the tank, (e) the gas separator tank having wide gas outlet tubes clustered about the top, to be instantly diverting the gas to gas receptacles positioned away from the rig, the exceeding volume of the gas outlet tubes dissipating exceeding pressure of the gas entrainment, (f) the gas separator tank having an \u2018oil-dispersion\u2019 device, said \u2018oil-dispersion\u2019 device having an oil-dispersion coil positioned nearer to the tank's bottom oil column, (g) the gas separator tank having bottom perforations devised wider than the well's \u2018production tubing\u2019, for the oil to be flowing to the lower \u2018oil passage\u2019 tank, (h) the \u2018oil passage\u2019 tank having the oil entereing through its top to be down-flowing to its bottom, (i) the \u2018oil passage\u2019 tank having wide gas-outlet-tubes clustered about the top of the tank, said gas-outlet-tubes also reaching the gas receptacles positioned away from the rig, (j) the \u2018oil passage\u2019 tank having a \u2018siphoning\u2019 tube, to be entering the rig as an \u2018oil-collection\u2019 tube, or entering oil collection receptacles in a destination away from the rig, (k) the prototype SLGOE unit is incorporated into the well's oil collection system as two discrete functional models stationed in the rig vicinity, to be functioning as: (i) an Emergency operational SLGOE unit (the EOS unit)\u2014wherein the SLGOE unit, connected to the well's marine riser distal to the BOP, is operational upon a well-blow out, separating the gaseous elements and diverting to distant destination; (2) a multi-operational SLGOE unit (the MOS unit)\u2014wherein the SLGOE unit is operational at all times, separating the gaseous elements, and diverting to distant destination, as a routine, and upon a well-blow out, (l) as the SLGOE unit is devised to preclude gas entrainment reaching the rig confines upon a well blow out, it is incorporated into the oil collection system when drilling of a down hole is reaching its completion. and amenable for a \u2018kick\u2019 from an oil containment, and as an alternative thereof, the riser strings can be manufactured with the diversion tubing incorporated into its interior walls, to be operative when needed, (m) the tanks of the SLGOE unit are equipped to be having a video monitoring device(s) of solar battery power source, the video device positioned with a lens side down-tilted incline, accessing the tanks about the top through an automated window door, (n) the \u2018siphoning\u2019 principle, being devised as a function exclusively directed to the oil within the \u2018oil passage\u2019 tank, the gas separator tank is completely alienated from such \u2018natural drawing force\u2019, whereby its gaseous components are not drawn into the down-stream oil collection system, (o) the terminal gas receptacles with provisions for one way outlet valves, let out gases under high pressure threshold, so that back pressure is not built un in the SLGOE units, (p) the SLGOE unit is structured as a \u2018SLGOE modular unit\u2019 capsule of different preconfigured sizes with provisions for\u2014a door access, and fire-safe devices of enveloping burlaps, surface sprinklers, water jetting corridors, wind-blowing fans fitted to a scant exoskeleton, and a water-sealed pathway to the rig, (q) wherein there is a breach in the well's drilling conductor with at least partial cessation of the SLGOE functioning, the scheme of effluent diversion further including an \u2018oil-separator of the water-admixed effluent\u2019 tank, subject to separating admixed ocean waters of the effluent, and furthermore preventing the oil polluting oceanic ecosystem.

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): 0.7635629453208014
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5442686518101918
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7416335159697404
- Mean Citation Score: 217.057272
- Max Citation Score: 401.58264
- Similarity Product: 357.00651159790993

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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