Patents by Inventor Nima Saber

Nima Saber 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: 10487636
    Abstract: Enhanced methods for recovering viscous hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation as a follow-up to thermal recovery processes. The methods include injecting a solvent flood vapor stream into a first thermal chamber, which extends within the subterranean formation, via a solvent flood injection well that extends within the first thermal chamber. The injecting includes injecting to generate solvent flood-mobilized viscous hydrocarbons within the subterranean formation. The methods also include, at least partially concurrently with the injecting, producing the solvent flood-mobilized viscous hydrocarbons from a second thermal chamber, which extends within the subterranean formation, via a solvent flood production well that extends within the second thermal chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Hamed R. Motahhari, Rahman Khaledi, Nima Saber, James A. Dunn
  • Publication number: 20190032462
    Abstract: Enhanced methods for recovering viscous hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation as a follow-up to thermal recovery processes. The methods include injecting a solvent flood vapor stream into a first thermal chamber, which extends within the subterranean formation, via a solvent flood injection well that extends within the first thermal chamber. The injecting includes injecting to generate solvent flood-mobilized viscous hydrocarbons within the subterranean formation. The methods also include, at least partially concurrently with the injecting, producing the solvent flood-mobilized viscous hydrocarbons from a second thermal chamber, which extends within the subterranean formation, via a solvent flood production well that extends within the second thermal chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Hamed R. Motahhari, Rahman Khaledl, Nima Saber, James A. Dunn
  • Publication number: 20190032460
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to production of a bitumen product from a subterranean reservoir with improved processes for solvent recovery at end of production or near end of production (i.e., “late life”) of heavy oil from a solvent-based heavy oil extraction process. The process include converting at least some of the wells in the subterranean reservoir, and injecting gas phase dilution agent into the reservoir, converting at least a portion of the liquid solvent to a gas phase, and recovering, in the vapor phase, at least a portion of the solvent remaining in the reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Rahman Khaledi, Forough Farshidi, Hamed R. Motahhari, Nima Saber, B. Karl Pustank, Ernesto C. Dela Rosa, Wenqiang Han
  • Publication number: 20140174744
    Abstract: Systems and methods for pressure-cycled stimulation during gravity drainage operations. These systems and methods include increasing a pressure within a stimulation well that extends within a subterranean formation and subsequently decreasing the pressure within the stimulation well to increase production of viscous hydrocarbons from a production well. The systems and methods include repeating the increasing and the decreasing for a plurality of stimulation cycles and producing viscous hydrocarbons from the subterranean formation during the increasing, the decreasing, and the repeating. The increasing may include increasing a reservoir pressure within the subterranean formation to a pressure that is greater than a bubble point pressure of the viscous hydrocarbons, and the decreasing may include decreasing the reservoir pressure to a pressure that is less than the bubble point pressure of the viscous hydrocarbons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Thomas J. Boone, Nima Saber