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US 2010/0163232 A1Published application
Gas separator
OwnerJack J. Kolléinventor
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Abstract
A combination liquid and gas separator and jetting tool includes a housing containing a rotatable drum, a stator in the inlet end of the housing for swirling a liquid/gas mixture, a rotor attached to the drum for rotation by the mixture; whereby the gas and liquid are separated. The liquid and gas are discharged through separate restricted orifices downstream of the drum. Orifices can be located in a rotating head for cleaning, cutting or other downhole operations.
Claims3
A method of jetting comprising the steps of:
- passing a two-phase fluid stream through a jetting tool;
- and
- removing gas from the two-phase fluid stream thereby producing a gas-rich phase and a liquid phase containing less than 1 vol % gas.
A method comprising:
- pumping a two phase fluid containing a gas and a liquid into a wellbore;
- and
- separating the gas phase from the liquid phase whereby the resulting liquid phase contains less than 1 vol % gas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.