Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Richard B. Taylor
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Patent number: 8070936Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts containing a transition metal sulfide produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. In some embodiments, gas is produced during contact with one or more catalysts and the crude feed.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2009Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Scott Lee Wellington, Thomas Fairchild Brownscombe, Stanley Nemec Milam
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Patent number: 8070937Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. The one or more catalysts may include at least one catalyst having a median pore diameter of at least 230 ?. Methods for producing the catalyst having the median pore size diameter are described.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Opinder Kishan Bhan, Scott Lee Wellington
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Patent number: 7963329Abstract: A method including a) injecting into the formation an aqueous solution containing a polymer and a surfactant to create a organic phase and a aqueous phase, the surfactant being capable of reducing the interfacial tension between the phases to less than 1 dyne/cm; b) recovering a portion of the organic and aqueous phases containing at least a portion of the polymer and surfactant components and a portion of native petroleum surfactants generated in the porous formation; c) adjusting the conditions of the recovered portions to force a portion of the polymer and surfactant from one phase into the other phase by use of chemical, physical, electrical or gravitational means or a combination of said means; d) separating the polymer-and surfactant-containing phase; e) concentrating the polymer and surfactant components in the separated phase; and f) re-injecting at least a portion of the concentrated polymer and surfactant components into the formation.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2008Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Gordon Thomas Shahin, Joseph Michael Redican
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Patent number: 7959796Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that include a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Opinder Kishan Bhan, Scott Lee Wellington
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Patent number: 7959797Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts containing a transition metal sulfide produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. In some embodiments, gas is produced during contact with one or more catalysts and the crude feed.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Scott Lee Wellington, Thomas Fairchild Brownscombe, Stanley Nemec Milam
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Patent number: 7955499Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalysts may include a catalyst that has a median pore diameter of at least 90 ?. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Opinder Kishan Bhan, Scott Lee Wellington
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Patent number: 7918992Abstract: Methods and systems for contacting of a crude feed with one or more catalysts to produce a total product that includes a crude product are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product has an MCR content of at most 90% of the MCR content of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2006Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventor: Opinder Kishan Bhan
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Patent number: 7811445Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. The crude product may include, hydrocarbon gas that is non-condensable at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa, naphtha, kerosene, residue, or mixtures thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Scott Lee Wellington, Stanley Nemec Milam
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Patent number: 7763160Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. The one or more catalysts include a transition metal sulfide catalyst. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Inventors: Scott Lee Wellington, Stanley Nemec Milam
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Patent number: 7749374Abstract: Methods for conversion of a hydrocarbon feed to a total product are described. Contact of the hydrocarbon feed with one or more catalysts at selected contacting conditions produces the total product. The total product includes a crude product that is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa and has one or more properties that are changed relative to the respective property of the hydrocarbon feed. Selected contacting conditions include a partial pressure of at most 7 MPa. During contact a P-value of a hydrocarbon feed/total product mixture remains at least 1.0. The crude product has a residue content of at most 90% and/or a reduced viscosity of at most 50% as compared to the residue content and/or viscosity content of the hydrocarbon feed.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2007Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Opinder Kishan Bhan, Scott Lee Wellington
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Patent number: 7745369Abstract: A catalyst that one or more metals from Column 5 of the Periodic Table and/or one or more compounds of one or more metals from Column 5 of the Periodic Table is described. The catalyst exhibits one or more bands in a range from 650 cm?1 to 1000 cm?1, as determined by Raman Spectroscopy. Methods of contacting a crude feed with hydrogen with the catalyst to produce a crude product with minimal hydrogen uptake are also described.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2006Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Opinder Kishan Bhan, Scott Lee Wellington
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Patent number: 7736490Abstract: Systems and methods for contacting a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that include a crude product are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalysts may include one or more vanadium catalysts. Methods and compositions of the one or more vanadium catalysts are described. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. In some embodiments, hydrogen is generated.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Opinder Kishan Bhan, Scott Lee Wellington
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Patent number: 7674368Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. Contacting conditions are controlled such that the crude feed, during contact, uptakes hydrogen at a selected rate to inhibit phase separation of the crude feed during contact. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Opinder Kishan Bhan, Scott Lee Wellington
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Patent number: 7628908Abstract: Systems and method for contacting a crude feed that has a total acid number of at least 0.1 with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product are described. At least one of the catalysts includes vanadium. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa, and the crude product has a TAN of at most 90% of the TAN of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Opinder Kishan Bhan, Scott Lee Wellington
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Patent number: 7625481Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with a hydrogen source in the presence of an inorganic salt catalyst produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. The inorganic salt catalyst comprises alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, or mixtures thereof. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Scott Lee Wellington, Thomas Fairchild Brownscombe
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Patent number: 7588681Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalyst may include an uncalcined catalyst. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Opinder Kishan Bhan, Scott Lee Wellington
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Patent number: 7538061Abstract: Disclosed is a new catalyst composition comprising a bimetallic Co—Fe catalyst, optionally complexed with a ligand selected from a N-heterocycle, phosphine, or porphorine ligand, that provides a lower cost alternative for the one step synthesis of 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO) from ethylene oxide and synthesis gas. For example, a catalyst containing cobalt carbonyl: iron carbonyl with no ligand, or a catalyst containing a cobalt carbonyl: octaethylporphine iron acetate provide moderate yields of 1,3-PDO in a one step synthesis under mild conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2004Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: John Frederick Knifton, Talmadge Gail James, Lynn Henry Slaugh, Paul Richard Weider, Kevin Dale Allen, Joseph Broun Powell
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Patent number: 7534342Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalysts may include a catalyst that has a median pore diameter of at least 90 ?. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Opinder Kishan Bhan, Scott Lee Wellington
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Patent number: 7416653Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. In some embodiments, gas is produced during contact with one or more catalysts and the crude feed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Scott Lee Wellington, Thomas Fairchild Brownscombe, Stanley Nemec Milam
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Patent number: 7402547Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. Methods of preparing the one or more catalysts are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. The crude product may include hydrocarbons with different boiling point distributions.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Scott Lee Wellington, Stanley Nemec Milam