Modular Compressed Natural Gas System for Use at a Wellsite
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorManik Kapoor
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Abstract
A system and method of receiving field gas from a compressor station pipeline, and compressing the gas at a remote location with a modular compressor. The compressed gas is collected in a container and transported to a wellsite for use at the wellsite. The gas from the pipeline is directed to the container, and diverted to the modular compressor when pressure in the container approaches pressure in the pipeline. The modular compressor discharge is piped to the container, so that the container is filled with additional gas and at the discharge pressure of the modular compressor.
Claims17
A method of supplying combustible gas comprising:
- a. providing a modular compressor at a location adjacent a field gas pipeline and proximate a wellsite;
- b. storing gas from the field gas pipeline in a transport vessel;
- c. compressing gas in the transport vessel with the modular compressor;
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- d. moving the transport vessel to the wellsite.
A method of supplying combustible gas comprising:
- a. providing a modular compressor that comprises a compressor package in a standardized shipping container;
- b. directing gas from a field gas pipeline in a transport vessel;
- c. compressing gas in the transport vessel with the modular compressor at a location adjacent the field gas pipeline and proximate a wellsite;
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- d. moving the transport vessel to the wellsite.
A system for providing combustible gas comprising:
- a modular compressor that comprises a compressor package in a standardized shipping container and that is disposed adjacent a field gas pipeline;
- a flow line that selectively flows field gas from the field gas pipeline to the modular compressor and that selectively flows the field gas to a transport vessel;
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- a discharge line having an end connected to a discharge of the modular compressor and to the transport vessel, so that when compressed field gas is discharged from the discharge of the modular compressor into the discharge line, the compressed field gas flows into and compresses field gas in the transport vessel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.