Method for inhibiting the plugging of conduits by gas hydrates

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PATENT NO 5648575
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08370954

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The plugging of conduits containing a mixture of low-boiling hydrocarbons and water in inhibited by adding to the mixture an effective amount of at least one alkylated compound of the general formula formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each are independently chosen from normal or branched alkyls containing a chain of at least 4 carbon atoms, R.sub.5 is an organic moiety containing a chain of at least 4 atoms, X is S, N--R.sub.4 or P--R.sub.4, R.sub.4 is H or an organic substituent, suitably an alkyl or alkenyl group having from 8 to 20 carbon atoms, and Y-- is an anion.

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SHELL OFFSHORE INCP O BOX 60193 2456 ONE SHELL SQUARE NEW ORLEANS LA 70160

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Klomp, Ulfert Cornelis Amsterdam, NL 10 185
Kruka, Vitold Raimond Houston, TX 3 75
Reijnhart, Rene Amsterdam, NL 3 180
Weisenborn, Anton Jacobus Amsterdam, NL 1 48

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