Patents Assigned to Wave Energy Resources
  • Apparatus and method for increasing production rates of immovable and unswept oil through the use of weak elastic waves
    Patent number: 5836389
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for improving the production of unswept and immovable oil from conventional oil wells. The oil recovery system utilizes an impulse wave device to produce impulse waves which travel down-hole and strike a bridge plug. When the impulse waves strike the bridge plug, weak elastic waves are created. After creation, the weak elastic waves propagate in all directions. The weak elastic waves are maintained in a general area near an oil formation by a conventional packer and a diffuser/deflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Wave Energy Resources
    Inventors: Dennis Wagner, Reed Juett