ASSOCIATED AND NATURAL GAS CONVERSION PROCESS Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC C07C29/50 C07C31/04 C07C51/12 C07C53/08 C07C67/36 C07C69/14 C07C27/14 

FIELD: oil and gas industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention is referred to conversion process of associated and natural gases with high content of heavy methane homologs by direct partial oxidation of hydrocarbon gas and further carbonylation of the received products. At that hydrocarbons gas is mixed up with oxygen or oxygen-containing gas with mole ratio of hydrocarbon in heavy components: oxygen of 10-1:1 and selective oxidation of heavy components is made at temperature of 350-420°C and pressure of 10-40 bar and the received products are subjected to processing in presence of carbonylation catalysts with production of liquid products of carboxylic acids and their ethers and dry fuel gas purified from heavy components and enriched with methane.

EFFECT: method is the simplest and the most economically feasible for processing of associated oil gas and natural gas with high content of methane homologs with production of dry gas and a range of valuable liquid products.

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