ConocoPhillips was granted a patent for a closed-loop LNG process.

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    "detail": "In September 2026 ConocoPhillips patented a liquefied natural gas process for treating nitrogen-containing feed gas in LNG production facilities.",
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    "source_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US12742589",
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    "patent_title": "Closed loop LNG process for a feed gas with nitrogen",
    "patent_number": "US12742589",
    "uspto_assignee": "ConocoPhillips Company",
    "patent_abstract": "Systems and methods for processing liquefied natural gas (LNG) can include an LNG production system with a methane refrigeration cycle downstream from an ethylene refrigeration cycle. The methane refrigeration cycle can be a closed loop methane refrigeration cycle that maintains a methane refrigerant separate from a natural gas feed, (e.g., compared to an open loop methane refrigeration cycle that extracts the methane refrigerant from the natural gas feed and recombines the methane refrigerant with the natural gas feed). The natural gas feed can be a medium or high nitrogen gas feed having a nitrogen content greater than 1.0% molarity.",
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  -d '{"domain":"conocophillips.com","limit":20}'