Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for the production of hydrocarbon product from two different hydrocarbonaceous feedstocks comprising the steps of preparing a feed syngas having a hydrogen/carbon monoxide [H2/CO] molar feed ratio suitable for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, wherein the feed syngas is prepared by combining a first syngas having a H2/CO molar ratio below the molar feed ratio and a second syngas having a H2/CO molar ratio above the molar feed ratio; the first syngas is prepared from a liquid hydrocarbon comprising feedstock as the sole source of carbon in a first syngas manufacturing process comprising a non-catalytic partial oxidation step; the second syngas is prepared from a methane comprising feedstock as the sole source of carbon in a second syngas manufacturing process comprising a heat exchange reforming step and an auto-thermal reforming step; and the first and second syngas manufacturing processes are operated in parallel.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of treating a hydrocarbon containing formation, comprising: (a) providing a composition to at least a portion of the hydrocarbon containing formation, wherein the composition comprises water and an anionic surfactant which is an internal olefin sulfonate (IOS), which has a weight ratio of branched IOS molecules to linear IOS molecules N which is greater than 0 to smaller than 11:89; and (b) allowing the composition to interact with the hydrocarbons in the hydrocarbon containing formation. Further, the invention relates to a hydrocarbon recovery composition which comprises the composition used in said method, and to a hydrocarbon containing composition produced from a hydrocarbon containing formation which in addition to hydrocarbons contains the composition used in said method.

Abstract: Use of a lubricating oil composition comprising at least one Fischer-Tropsch derived base oil for reducing exhaust port blocking of a 2-stroke engine. The present invention also relates to a 2-stroke lubricating engine oil composition comprising (i) at least one Fischer-Tropsch derived base oil having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. in the range of from 2 to 30 mm2/s at 100° C. and (ii) 5 wt % or greater of a hydrocarbon solvent; wherein the lubricating engine oil composition has a Blocking Index of greater than 130 as measured by the JASO M343-92 Exhaust System Blocking Test Method.

Abstract: Seafloor movements are monitored by measuring the ambient seawater pressure at a plurality of locations adjacent to the seafloor using asynchronous pressure signals generated by a plurality of pressure sensors mounted at different locations on the seafloor over a prolonged period of time(t), wherein harmonic tide-related pressure variations on the asynchronous pressure signals are corrected by an algorithm comprising a mathematical equation that models spatial and temporal pressure variations in an objective function. The method is unconstrained with regard to the synchronicity of depth and/or pressure measurements and does not require additional stationary short tem local reference measurements.

Abstract: A gasification reactor comprising a gasifier with a tubular gastight wall arranged within a pressure vessel. The gasification reactor comprises one or more pressure responsive devices comprising a sleeve with a cooled section extending outwardly from an opening in the gastight wall. The pressure responsive devices can, e.g., include a pressure measurement device and/or a pressure equalizer. Method of using a pressure responsive device with such a gasifier, wherein a heat sluice is used formed by a sleeve with a cooled section extending outwardly from an opening in the gastight wall.

Abstract: A lubricating composition comprising a base oil blend and one or more additives wherein the base oil blend comprises: a distillate naphthenic base oil having a saturates content as measured by IP368 of greater than 92 wt % and comprising less than 10 ppm of sulphur; and a Fischer-Tropsch derived base oil. The lubricating composition of the present invention exhibits improved detergency and engine cleanliness properties.

Abstract: Voids (14) in a underground wellbore (1) are sealed by:—inserting a corrosion prone object (10A-C, 12) in the void injecting an oxidizing agent into the void (14); and—allowing the oxidizing agent to induce corrosion of the corrosion prone object and to thereby generate corrosion products (13A-E) that are physically larger than the corrosion prone object (10A-C, 12) and that seal the void (14).

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for treating a hydrocarbon stream having methane, at least a part of the hydrocarbon stream and a main refrigerant stream are cooled by indirect heat exchanging against a pre-cooling refrigerant. The pre-cooled hydrocarbon stream is passed to a first inlet of an extraction column, and an effluent stream is discharged from the extraction column. The effluent stream and at least a part of the pre-cooled main refrigerant stream are passed to a further heat exchanger, where they are both cooled thereby providing a cooled methane-enriched hydrocarbon stream and at least one cooled main refrigerant stream. The passing of the effluent stream to the further heat exchanger and the passing of the pre-cooled hydrocarbon stream to the first inlet of the extraction column includes indirectly heat exchanging the effluent stream against the pre-cooled hydrocarbon stream.

Abstract: A method of drilling into an object comprises providing a drill string in a borehole in the object, the borehole having at its bottom a borehole axis, the drill string comprising a borehole-centralized jet drill head at its lower end, the jet drill head having a drill axis, and comprising a jet nozzle; providing a stabilizer means for the drill string, the stabilizer means determining an inclination angle between the borehole axis and the drill axis; and generating a fluid jet at the jet nozzle, so as to deepen the borehole, wherein the drill string is rotated while deepening the borehole. Another system comprises a drill string with an jet drill head at its lower end, the drill head being provided with a jet nozzle, a stabilizer positioned above the jet drill head, the stabilizer contacting the borehole wall, and means for rotating the drill string.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing a polymer polyol, comprising mixing in a reactor vessel, a base polyol, one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers, a polymerization initiator, optionally a macromer, and optionally a chain transfer agent, and polymerizing the mixture thus obtained at a temperature of 50 to 200° C., wherein after discharging the reactor vessel content, the interior surface of the reactor vessel walls and/or any internals present in the reactor vessel are blasted with round media.

Abstract: A process is provided for producing aromatic hydrocarbons which comprises: (a) contacting a lower alkane feed with a solid particulate aromatic hydrocarbon conversion catalyst in a fluidized bed reaction zone to produce aromatic hydrocarbons and other products, whereby the catalyst is at least partly deactivated by the formation of undesirable coke deposits, (b) continuously withdrawing a portion of the catalyst from the reaction zone, regenerating it in a regeneration zone and returning regenerated catalyst to the reaction zone, (c) maintaining the heat balance between the reaction zone and the regeneration zone by diluting the catalyst particles with particles of a catalytically inactive solid with about the same or improved specific heat and thermal conductivity relative to the catalyst, (d) separating aromatic hydrocarbons from the other products and unreacted lower alkanes, and (e) optionally recycling unreacted lower alkanes to the reaction zone.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of treating a raw syngas stream and an apparatus therefor. In the method a raw syngas stream is passed to a hydrolysis unit to provide a hydrolysed syngas stream and a condensed water stream. The hydrolysed syngas stream is passed to an acid gas removal unit to separate H2S and a part of the CO2 from the hydrolysed syngas stream to provide a treated syngas stream and an acid off-gas stream. The acid off-gas stream and a sulphur dioxide-comprising stream are passed to a catalytic zone to react H2S in the acid off-gas stream with SO2 in the sulphur dioxide-comprising stream to provide an elemental sulphur stream and a catalytic zone off-gas stream.

Abstract: A system for use in a wellbore, comprises a length of casing, a structure that is configured to deform with deformation of the casing, said structure being affixed to the length of casing at substantially the same radial position along the length of casing, and a sensing device that is configured to measure deformation of the structure, said device comprising a plurality of sensors that are distributed with respect to at least one of the length of said structure and the periphery of said structure.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the manufacture of an elongated tube, the process comprising the following steps: (a) forming a rotating temporary tube (1), the tube having a first end at which the tube is continuously produced and a second end opposite to the first end, by continuously supplying a flat, elongated metal strip to a guiding body, which guiding body is forming a helix from the strip in such a way that consecutive windings of the helix do not overlap, and helically welding the consecutive windings of the helix formed by the guiding body to each other, (b) cutting cylinders from the second end of the rotating temporary tube (1); and (c) welding the cylinders obtained in step (b) to each other to form the elongated tube. The invention further relates to the use of the elongated tube in a process for the manufacture of an elongated, multilayered tubular body.

Abstract: A method of producing hydrocarbon fluid from a layer of oil sand located in an earth formation, the method comprising creating at least one borehole in the earth formation, including a discharge borehole having a borehole section extending in a selected direction at an angle of less than 45 degrees with an upper and/or lower boundary of the layer and being provided with a liner of a length adapted to be changed, and creating a cavity in the layer of oil sand, the cavity being in fluid communication with said borehole section; extending the cavity in the selected direction by operating fluid jetting means via said at least one borehole to jet a stream of fluid against a wall of the cavity; changing the length of the liner in correspondence with extension of the cavity in the selected direction; and transporting a slurry of fluid and oil sand, resulting from operation of the fluid jetting means, from the cavity via the discharge borehole to a processing facility for processing the slurry.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of producing gaseous and liquid component streams from at least two multi-phase streams in at least two pipelines, the method comprising at least the steps of: (a) passing a first multi-phase stream along a first pipeline and through a first slugcatcher system; (b) passing a second multi-phase stream through a second pipeline and a second slugcatcher system; (c) passing a first pig down the first pipeline to create a first pig-slug mass in the first pipeline; and (d) passing at least a fraction of the first multi-phase stream upstream of the first pig-slug mass to the second pipeline along a crossover line.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for the preparation of an alkylene glycol from an alkene wherein conversion of alkylene oxide to alkylene glycol occurs in an alkylene oxide absorber and optionally in further reactors, and alkylene glycol is extracted from fat absorbent by contacting the fat absorbent with a lean solvent, thereby producing fat solvent, recovering alkylene glycol from the fat solvent and recycling the lean solvent.

Abstract: A method of treating a hydrocarbon containing formation, comprising (a) providing a hydrocarbon recovery composition to at least a portion of the hydrocarbon containing formation, wherein the hydrocarbon recovery composition comprises a propoxylated composition which comprises (1) a glycerol sulfonate of a propoxylated primary alcohol having a branched aliphatic group with an average carbon number from 10 to 24 and having an average number of branches per aliphatic group of from 0.7 to 2.5 and having at least 0.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for the removal of gaseous acidic contaminants, especially carbon dioxide and/or hydrogen sulphide, in two or more stages from a gaseous hydrocarbonaceous feedstream (1) comprising hydrocarbons and said acidic contaminants, using one or more membranes in each separation stages. The gaseous hydrocarbonaceous feedstream is especially a natural gas stream. The process is especially suitable for feedstreams comprising high amounts of acidic contaminants, e.g. between 10 and 95 vol. % of carbon dioxide and/or hydrogen sulphide, especially between 15 and 70 vol. %. In a first stage (2) a clean or almost clean hydrocarbon stream (3) is separated from the feedstream, the hydrocarbon stream suitably containing less than 5 vol % of acidic contaminants. The remaining stream (4) comprises the acidic contaminants and a certain amount of hydrocarbons.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for producing purified gas from feed gas comprising H2S, CO2 and HCN and/or COS, the process comprising the steps of: (a) contacting feed gas comprising H2S, CO2 and HCN and/or COS with a HCN/COS hydrolysis sorbent in the presence of water in a HCN/COS hydrolysis unit, thereby obtaining gas depleted in HCN and/or COS; (b) contacting the gas depleted in HCN and/or COS with absorbing liquid in an H2S/CO2 absorber to remove H2S and CO2, thereby obtaining the purified gas and absorbing liquid rich in H2S and CO2; (c) heating and de-pressurising at least part of the absorbing liquid rich in H2S and CO2 to obtain hot flash gas enriched in CO2 and absorbing liquid enriched in H2S; (d) contacting the absorbing liquid enriched in H2S at elevated temperature with a stripping gas, thereby transferring H2S to the stripping gas to obtain regenerated absorbing liquid and stripping gas rich in H2S; and (e) leading at least part of the flash gas enriched in CO2 to the HCN/COS hydrolysis unit