Patents by Inventor THOMAS FOERDE

THOMAS FOERDE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Subsea fluid processing system
    Patent number: 10428287
    Abstract: A subsea fluid processing system which receives a wellstream flow. The subsea fluid processing system includes a pressure control device which regulates a pressure of the wellstream flow, a gas-liquid separator unit which receives the wellstream flow downstream of the pressure control device and which provides a liquid stream and a gas stream, a first membrane separator which receives the gas stream and which provides a retentate stream and a permeate stream, a compressor which receives the permeate stream and which provides a compressed permeate stream, and a discharge cooler which receives the compressed permeate stream and which provides a cooled compressed permeate stream for injection into a subsurface reservoir. A density of the cooled compressed permeate stream is higher than a density of the compressed permeate stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: AKER SOLUTIONS AS
    Inventors: Pal Helge Noekleby, Geir Inge Olsen, Thomas Foerde, Michael Hilditch
  • SUBSEA FLUID PROCESSING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180002623
    Abstract: A subsea fluid processing system which receives a wellstream flow. The subsea fluid processing system includes a pressure control device which regulates a pressure of the wellstream flow, a gas-liquid separator unit which receives the wellstream flow downstream of the pressure control device and which provides a liquid stream and a gas stream, a first membrane separator which receives the gas stream and which provides a retentate stream and a permeate stream, a compressor which receives the permeate stream and which provides a compressed permeate stream, and a discharge cooler which receives the compressed permeate stream and which provides a cooled compressed permeate stream for injection into a subsurface reservoir. A density of the cooled compressed permeate stream is higher than a density of the compressed permeate stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: AKER SOLUTIONS AS
    Inventors: PAL HELGE NOEKLEBY, GEIR INGE OLSEN, THOMAS FOERDE, MICHAEL HILDITCH