Patents by Inventor Adeline Dupas

Adeline Dupas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9719335
    Abstract: An enhanced recovery method that optimizes the stages of pumping, transport and surface treatment of the production effluent, during which a sweep fluid having at least one polymer so as to displace hydrocarbons towards a production well is injected into a reservoir, the resulting production effluent having hydrocarbons is collected through the production well, and a degradation agent for a polymer within the sweep fluid is injected into the effluent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Argillier, Isabelle Henaut, Adeline Dupas
  • Publication number: 20130213650
    Abstract: The invention relates to an enhanced recovery method that optimizes the stages of pumping, transport and surface treatment of the production effluent. The method of the invention comprises the following stages: injecting into said reservoir (1) a sweep fluid comprising at least one polymer so as to displace said hydrocarbons towards at least one production well (4), collecting a production effluent comprising the hydrocarbons through production well (4), injecting into said effluent at least one degradation agent for said polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Argillier, Isabelle Henaut, Adeline Dupas