Plural Wells Patents (Class 166/52)
  • Patent number: 11613985
    Abstract: A technique facilitates smart alarming, event detection, and/or event mitigation. The smart alarming may be achieved by, for example, automating detection processes and using advanced signal processing techniques. In some applications, event detection is enhanced by combining different alarms to facilitate diagnosis of a condition, e.g. a pump condition. The occurrence of certain unwanted events can be mitigated by automatically adjusting operation of a well system according to suitable protocols for a given event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sensia LLC
    Inventors: Dudi Abdullah Rendusara, Luis Parra, Roderick Ian MacKay, Ming-Kei Keith Lo, Jeffery Anderson
  • Patent number: 11441402
    Abstract: A method for in-situ remediation and recovery of a tar mat TM layer of a sub-surface formation can include deasphalting oil obtained from an oil column to produce a deasphalted oil, extracting an aromatic solvent from the deasphalted oil to provide a residual deasphalted oil and an extracted solvent; and injecting the residual deasphalted oil and the extracted solvent into the tar mat TM layer of the sub-surface formation using at least one horizontal well selected from the group consisting of a single horizontal well, two parallel horizontal wells, and a plurality of horizontal wells arranged in a radial configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: GIFTEDNESS AND CREATIVITY COMPANY
    Inventor: Saad F. Alkafeef
  • Patent number: 10907105
    Abstract: Novel catalysts comprising nickel oxide nanoparticles supported on alumina nanoparticles, methods of their manufacture, heavy oil compositions contacted by these nanocatalysts and methods of their use are disclosed. The novel nanocatalysts are useful, inter alia, in the upgrading of heavy oil fractions or as aids in oil recovery from steam-assisted well reservoirs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: PETRORAZA SAS
    Inventor: Jose Edgar Patiño
  • Patent number: 10626711
    Abstract: A method of producing hydrocarbon resources from a subterranean formation may include heating the subterranean formation with at least one radio frequency (RF) antenna located in an upper well within the subterranean formation. The method may further include producing hydrocarbon resources from a lower well within the heated subterranean formation and vertically beneath the upper well to create a void within the subterranean formation, and injecting a solvent into the void within the heated subterranean formation from the lower well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Mark A. Trautman, Brian N. Wright
  • Patent number: 10344901
    Abstract: A fluid connector for connecting a fluid source to supply fluid to conduct downhole operations in a plurality of wells is provided. The fluid connector has a fluid conduit with first and second fluid inlets and a plurality of fluid outlets connecting the fluid source to the wells. The fluid outlets are connected in series between the first and second fluid inlet. The fluid conduit defines a flow path between each fluid inlet and each fluid outlet, and in operation, the first and second fluid inlets are connected to receive fluid from the fluid source, and the fluid outlets are connected to supply fluid to the wells. The fluid connector also has a plurality of isolation valves connected downstream of each fluid outlet relative to the first and second fluid inlets, and the fluid is selectively supplied to the wells by opening and closing the isolation valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: MWFC INC.
    Inventors: Bradley Penney, Brian Allison
  • Patent number: 10227852
    Abstract: A reclaiming machine for fluids in wells, which performs strokes on a cyclical basis up to the bottom of the casing pipe of the well, collecting fluids brought to the surface and drawing them from the well by gravity. The reclaiming basket is the component performing the downstroke towards the bottom of the casing pipe of the well, to submerge in the hydrocarbon to be collected, and then begin the upstroke with the hydrocarbon collected, stored at the top of the pickup basket, to draw it from the well by gravity through the unloading head. Included in an embodiment is a pickup basket having communication ports, a positive check valve, and a gear motor. When the upstroke concludes, the collected fluid is directed through an unloading coupling and stored in a unloading tank and directed where it is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Inventor: Pablo Leónidas Jimenez Vallejo
  • Patent number: 9915132
    Abstract: A fracturing system can include a fracturing manifold coupled to a plurality of fracturing trees. The fracturing manifold may include adjustment joints that enable adjustment of the length of the fracturing manifold. The fracturing manifold can also include pivot joints that allow angular displacement of portions of the fracturing manifold with respect to other portions. The adjustment and pivot joints can accommodate spacing and elevation differences between the fracturing trees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Cameron International Corporation
    Inventor: Gregory A. Conrad
  • Patent number: 9890628
    Abstract: A fracturing device using a shock wave of a plasma reaction includes a partition unit for partitioning a reaction space such that a reaction medium is accommodated therein, by sealing a part having a plurality of through-holes among well casing of a gas well provided at shale rock layer so as to extract shale gas and a probe for applying energy to the reaction medium such that the reaction medium generates shock wave by a plasma reaction as the energy is applied to the reaction medium accommodated inside the reaction space, so as to propagate shock wave to the shale rock layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: GREEN SCIENCE CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Yoong Wook Sin, Chang Woo Ok, Bong Ju Lee
  • Patent number: 9714496
    Abstract: An apparatus, for allowing control of liquid level on a site, comprising a hollow stake body comprising lateral openings for allowing liquid thereinto when the apparatus is positioned into the ground, a stake tip at one end and a hit plate receiver at an opposite end. A method for controlling liquid level on an excavation site comprising positioning the apparatus at one location on the site, positioning a hit plate on the apparatus, repeatedly hitting the hit plate until at least one opening is below ground at a liquid control depth, removing the hit plate and installing a pump for pumping liquid accumulated in the apparatus. A mesh construction, for use with the apparatus, comprising a first punctured cover, a second punctured cover and a mesh assembly, comprising at least one filtration mesh, sandwiched between the first and the second punctured covers for allowing liquid therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Groupe Mammut Inc.
    Inventor: Pierre-Luc Bouchard
  • Patent number: 9662597
    Abstract: Methods for handling raw oil are disclosed herein. Systems for handling raw oil are disclosed herein. Housing module structures related thereto are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: NANA WORLEYPARSONS LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Formoso, Charles L. Clark, Erling J. Young
  • Patent number: 9410871
    Abstract: A system for sampling and/or conditioning a process gas such as natural gas or the like with selective isolation capability. The preferred embodiment of the present invention is designed to be OSHA compliant, contemplating a system to insert, retract, maintain and service analytical sample conditioning components or the like in fluid communication with a pressurized pipeline, but upstream an isolation component such as, for example, a double block and bleed sample valve or the like. The preferred embodiment of the present invention thereby provides an apparatus and method for selective isolation of existing or potential hazardous energies which may be associated with the pressurized pipeline and fluids therein from upstream the modular sample component(s) or the like therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: A+ Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventors: Valmond Joseph St Amant, III, Steven Douglas Calverley
  • Patent number: 9322254
    Abstract: A method for hydrocarbon resource recovery in a subterranean formation includes forming a laterally extending injector well in the subterranean formation and forming a laterally extending producer well spaced below the injector well. The method may also include radio frequency (RF) heating the subterranean formation to establish hydraulic communication between the injector well and the producer well. The method may further include injecting heated liquid water into the injector well to recover hydrocarbon resources from the producer well based upon the hydraulic communication therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: HARRIS CORPORATION, CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventors: Mark Alan Trautman, Daniel Sultenfuss
  • Patent number: 9284805
    Abstract: A device to affect oil-saturated layers and bottom hole zone of horizontal wells includes an emitter, a housing, presenting a double-moduled configuration, wherein the a first module and a second module are interconnected. The device includes a condenser charging unit of the first module, which is connected to an equipment that is located at a wellhead and has the capacity to transmit the data and condenser charges using a delivery tool, and a sensor that controls the force arising at the junction of the delivery tool and the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: OOO “NOVAS SK”
    Inventors: Nikita P. Ageev, Petr G. Ageev, Andrej V. Bochkarev
  • Patent number: 9031674
    Abstract: A method of optimizing production of wells using choke control includes generating, for each well, an intermediate solution to optimize the production of each well. The generating includes using an offline model that includes a mixed-integer nonlinear program solver and includes using production curves based on a choke state and a given wellhead pressure. The method further includes calculating, using a network model and the intermediate solution of each well, a current online wellhead pressure for each well. The method further includes setting the intermediate solution as a final solution based on determining that a difference between the current online wellhead pressure of each well and a prior online wellhead pressure of each well is less than a tolerance amount. The method further includes adjusting, using the final solution of each well, at least one operating parameter of the wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kashif Rashid, Suleyman Demirel, Benoit Couet
  • Publication number: 20150122477
    Abstract: A method of hydrocarbon resource recovery from a subterranean formation may include forming a plurality of spaced apart injector/producer well pairs in the subterranean formation. Each injector/producer well pair may include a laterally extending producer well and a laterally extending injector well spaced thereabove. The method may include forming an intermediate well adjacent a given injector/producer well pair, and operating a positioning actuator to position a radio frequency (RF) sensor coupled to the positioning actuator to at least one predetermined location within the intermediate well. The method may further include operating the RF sensor at the at least one predetermined location within the intermediate well to selectively sense at least one corresponding portion of the subterranean formation adjacent the given injector/producer well pair. The method may also include recovering hydrocarbon resources from the plurality of injector/producer well pairs including the given injector/producer well pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Francis E. PARSCHE, Mark TRAUTMAN
  • Publication number: 20150122476
    Abstract: There are provided a carbon dioxide storage apparatus and a carbon dioxide storage method which, through direct injection of carbon dioxide into an underground brine aquifer, can store carbon dioxide efficiently in the brine aquifer. A filter formed of, for example, grindstone is provided at a tip portion of an injection well. A pumping apparatus pumps carbon dioxide stored in a carbon dioxide tank. The pumping apparatus feeds carbon dioxide from the carbon dioxide tank into the injection well by means of a pump. In the pumping apparatus, carbon dioxide is held within a predetermined pressure range and a predetermined temperature range. Carbon dioxide is fed through the injection well, and is injected into a brine aquifer. Carbon dioxide injected into the brine aquifer assumes the form of microbubbles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Hiromichi KAMEYAMA, Susumu NISHIO, Ziqiu XUE, Toshifumi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20150114636
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems, apparatus and methods for integrated recovery and in-situ (in reservoir) upgrading of heavy oil and oil sand bitumens. The systems, apparatus and methods enable enhanced recovery of heavy oil in a production well by introducing a hot fluid including a vacuum or atmospheric residue fraction or deasphalted oil into the production well under conditions to promote hydrocarbon upgrading. The methods may further include introducing hydrogen and a catalyst together with the injection of the hot fluid into the production well to further promote hydrocarbon upgrading reactions. In addition, the invention relates to enhanced oil production methodologies within conventional oil reservoirs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Pedro Pereira-Almao, Zhangxing Chen, Brij Maini, Carlos Scott-Algara
  • Publication number: 20150090456
    Abstract: Enhanced oil recovery becomes increasingly important in satisfying the growing demand for fossil fuel. The efficiency of secondary recovery processes like water flooding is however largely influenced by the rock characteristics, fluid characteristics, chemistry and physics. For development of the full potential of secondary oil recovery, it remains a challenge to obtain sufficient knowledge about the reservoir conditions. The present invention provides a novel water-dispersed, nano-sensor composition based on. InP/ZnS quantum dots (“QDs”) and atomic silver clusters, which exhibit a bright visible fluorescence combined with dedicated sensor functionalities. The QD and silver nano-sensors were tested in simulated reservoir conditions to determine their selected functionality to these reservoir conditions. The developed nano-sensors showed improved sensor functionalities towards pH, temperature, and subterranean reservoir rock, such, as clay or limestone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Daniël H. Turkenburg, Patrick T.K. Chin, Rudolf H. Fischer
  • Publication number: 20150083411
    Abstract: Automated systems and methods of extracting gas from groundwater aquifers are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Charles Benjamin Barnes Oborn, Gary Farnsworth Player
  • Publication number: 20150083412
    Abstract: A device for obtaining carbonic substances, particularly bitumen, from oil sands is provided. The device has at least one steam generator, an injection pipeline and a production pipeline. Steam can be introduced into the oil sand via the injection pipeline, and the carbonic substance can be removed from the oil sand via the production pipeline. At least one steam turbine is arranged between the steam generator and the injection pipeline. A method for obtaining carbonic substances, particularly bitumen, from oil sands is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Olaf Schmidt, Simon Schulze, Matthias Schoneich, Michael Welch
  • Patent number: 8967260
    Abstract: A method for enhancing hydrocarbon recovery from a reservoir using a heating well to reduce overburden stress over portions of the reservoir and the heating well is located in a subsurface formation proximate to the reservoir. The method may include heating the subsurface formation via the heating well above the reservoir, below the reservoir, or both, to form an expansion pillar and producing a hydrocarbon from the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventor: Robert D. Kaminsky
  • Publication number: 20150041127
    Abstract: Provided is an oil/water separation method that is capable of decreasing the frequency of clogging. The method is for separating oil and water from each other that are generated by an in-situ recovery method for producing bitumen 82 from oil sand (1500). After oil-containing water (83, 84) obtained as a result of the bitumen 82 being removed from a bitumen-mixed fluid 81 recovered from under the ground is prepared, the step of membrane-distilling the oil-containing water 84 by use of a distillation membrane member 10 formed of a porous membrane 20 is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Nobuharu Kuki, Ryoichi Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20150041128
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhanced delivery of thermal energy to vertical wellbores are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises heating a heat transfer fluid; continuously circulating the heat transfer fluid into a vertical wellbore to a downhole heat exchanger; advancing hot feedwater into the vertical wellbore to the downhole heat exchanger, wherein the downhole heat exchanger is configured to transfer heat from the heat transfer fluid to the hot feedwater to generate high-quality steam; transmitting the steam from the downhole heat exchanger into a subterranean formation, whereby thermal energy from the steam causes a reduction in viscosity of hydrocarbons in the subterranean formation; injecting an acid scale wash to counter scale buildup from the hot feedwater on the downhole heat exchanger; and returning the heat transfer fluid from the downhole heat exchanger to the surface thermal fluid heater for reheating and recirculation into the vertical wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: FUTURE ENERGY, LLC
    Inventor: Kent B. Hytken
  • Publication number: 20150034322
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate to recovering hydrocarbons by injecting into a reservoir steam along with carbon dioxide recovered from flue gases produced while generating the steam and from separation of produced fluids. Due to benefits from the carbon dioxide injection, carbon dioxide capture rates from the flue gases selected below fifty percent in such combined recovery of the carbon dioxide enables lower fuel consumption even given that additional fuel is needed for the carbon dioxide capture versus steam only operations. As the capture rates from the flue gases increase above fifty percent like when employed for sequestration purposes, such approaches use more fuel than the steam only operations and may not be cost efficient. A carbon dioxide recovery unit coupled to an air-fired boiler or an auxiliary oxy-fired boiler may supply the carbon dioxide recovered from the flue gases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Scott MACADAM, James SEABA, David LARKIN
  • Publication number: 20150027697
    Abstract: A completion system includes a first borehole structure having a first section formed proximate to a volume of methane hydrate located at a subsurface location. A second borehole structure has a second section formed proximate to the volume of methane hydrate, the first section positioned deeper than the second section with respect to gravity. A first string is positioned in the first borehole structure and arranged to convey a heat-bearing fluid through the first string into contact with a volume of methane hydrate in order to liberate methane from the methane hydrate. A second string is positioned in the second borehole structure and arranged to produce the methane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: XiaoWei Wang, Terry Bussear, Larry A. Watkins
  • Publication number: 20150027698
    Abstract: In a well, the method of lifting oil to the surface that utilizes the hydrostatic pressure, the stored energy in a column of fluid in a tubing string to power a down hole pump that is controlled by a directional switching control valve that selectively directs said hydrostatic pressure to said pump resulting in a flow of production fluid into another string of tubing that conducts that fluid up to the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: JOHN SPLAWN PAGE, JR.
  • Publication number: 20150027694
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to heater patterns and related methods of producing hydrocarbon fluids from a subsurface hydrocarbon-containing formation (for example, an oil shale formation) where a heater cell may be divided into nested inner and outer zones. Production wells may be located within one or both zones. In the smaller inner zone, heaters may be arranged at a relatively high spatial density while in the larger surrounding outer zone, a heater spatial density may be significantly lower. Due to the higher heater density, a rate of temperature increase in the smaller inner zone of the subsurface exceeds that of the larger outer zone, and a rate of hydrocarbon fluid production ramps up faster in the inner zone than in the outer zone. In some embodiments, a ratio between a half-maximum sustained production time and a half-maximum rise time of a hydrocarbon fluid production function is relatively large.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: GENIE IP B.V.
    Inventors: Harold Vinegar, Scott Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20150013967
    Abstract: A system for heating hydrocarbon resources in a subterranean formation having spaced-apart wellbores therein aligned in a plane may include radio frequency (RF) antennas to be positioned within respective ones of the spaced apart wellbores aligned in the plane. The system may also include a plurality of discrete RF sources each coupled to one of the RF antennas and configured so that the RF antennas are driven at a same frequency as each other RF antenna but at different phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Francis Eugene PARSCHE
  • Publication number: 20150013969
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving reservoir fluid recovery from fractured subterranean formations. The methods may include injecting a pressurizing fluid into an injection fracture that extends within a subterranean formation and producing a produced fluid from a production fracture that extends within the subterranean formation. The production fracture is spaced apart from the injection fracture and is in indirect fluid communication with the injection fracture via a portion of the subterranean formation that extends therebetween and the pressurizing fluid injection provides a motive force for the production of the produced fluid. The methods further include injecting a foaming agent into the production fracture to limit production of the pressurizing fluid from the production fracture. The systems may include hydrocarbon production systems that may be utilized to perform the methods and/or that may be created while performing the methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Matthew A. Dawson, Stuart R. Keller, John T. Linderman, Thomas J. Boone
  • Publication number: 20150013977
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for providing a reliable, high purity source of CO2 that is used in the recovery of formation deposits, such as fossil fuels. At least a portion of the fossil fuels recovered may be directly combusted or extracted using the same process used to provide the pure source of CO2 without the need to first remove CO2, sulfur, other fossil fuels, or other impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Miles R. Palmer, Rodney John Allam, Jeremy Eron Fetvedt, David Arthur Freed, Glenn William Brown, JR.
  • Publication number: 20150013979
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon resource recovery system is provided for a subterranean formation having an injector wellbore and a producer wellbore therein. The hydrocarbon resource recovery system includes a tubular producer positioned in the producer wellbore and a tubular injector positioned in the injector wellbore. A steam source is coupled to a proximal end of the tubular injector, and a radio frequency (RF) energy source is coupled to the proximal end of tubular injector. The tubular injector has spaced apart steam injector slots sized to allow steam to pass into the subterranean formation, while containing RF energy within the tubular injector to heat the steam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: FRANCIS EUGENE PARSCHE
  • Publication number: 20150000907
    Abstract: Dimethyl sulfide is produced from sour gas. The dimethyl sulfide is utilized in an oil recovery formulation introduced into a petroleum-bearing formation to enhance recovery of petroleum from the formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Stanley Nemec MILAM, Erik Willem TEGELAAR, John Justin FREEMAN, Richard B. TAYLOR
  • Publication number: 20140360727
    Abstract: A system and method for remediation of asphaltene-induced fouling of an oil-bearing formation is provided wherein an asphaltene solvent comprising at least 75 mol % dimethyl sulfide is introduced into an oil-bearing formation containing asphaltene deposits and the dimethyl sulfide is contacted with the asphaltene deposits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Stanley Nemec MILAM, Erik Willem TEGELAAR, John Justin FREEMAN
  • Publication number: 20140352947
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stimulation method for stimulating oil- or gas-containing parts of a formation, said parts being situated between an injection or a production well and a production well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventor: Jørgen Hallundbæk
  • Publication number: 20140345880
    Abstract: A system for sequestering CO2 gas and releasing natural gas from underground coal and/or gas shale formations using CO2 gas captured from the flue gas of a coal burning power plant, and processing it to produce cold liquid pressurized CO2, and injecting the cold liquid CO2 under pressure to create fractures within the formation and causing the CO2 to be adsorbed into the coal or gas shale and CH4 to be desorbed, released and recovered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Ben M. Enis, Paul Lieberman
  • Publication number: 20140338901
    Abstract: Methods and systems for enhanced recovery of coal bed methane are described. A method includes generating a diluent gas mixture comprising N2 and CO2 in a semi-closed Brayton cycle power plant, injecting at least a portion of the diluent gas mixture into a coal bed, and recovering a mixed production gas comprising methane from the coal bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: O. Angus Sites, Lalit K. Bohra
  • Publication number: 20140332206
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stimulation system for stimulation of oil production in an oil field. The stimulation system comprises a plurality wells, wherein a plurality of activation devices are arranged in the wells, and wherein the activation devices are activated with a frequency of once within a period of 1-365 days and with an energy discharge of at least 0.1 kilograms TNT equivalence per activation. Furthermore, the invention relates to a stimulation method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventor: Jørgen Hallundbæk
  • Publication number: 20140318760
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system for accessing a subterranean zone from the surface includes a well bore extending from the surface to the subterranean zone, and a well bore pattern connected to the junction and operable to drain fluid from a region of the subterranean zone to the junction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventor: Joseph Zupanick
  • Publication number: 20140318810
    Abstract: A wellbore servicing system comprising a first wellbore servicing system component configured to communicate a fluid via a first fluid conduit, a second wellbore servicing system component comprising a second fluid conduit, and a filter system comprising an input conduit in fluid communication with the first fluid conduit, a plurality of input flow paths, wherein each input flow path is in fluid communication with the input conduit, a plurality of filter housings, wherein each filter housing is in fluid communication with one of the plurality of input flow paths, a filter disposed within each of the filter housings, a plurality of output flow paths, wherein each output flow path is in fluid communication with one of the filter housings, an output conduit in fluid communication with each of the output flow paths and the second fluid conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Chapman LUCAS, Wesley John WARREN
  • Publication number: 20140299311
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system for accessing a subterranean zone from the surface includes a well bore extending from the surface to the subterranean zone, and a well bore pattern connected to the junction and operable to drain fluid from a region of the subterranean zone to the junction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventor: Joseph Zupanick
  • Publication number: 20140290935
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stimulation method comprising the steps of arranging a fluid-activated gun in a well through a well head and/or a blowout preventer, dividing the well into a first and a second part, the first part being closer to the well head and/or blowout preventer than the second part, pressurising the first part of the well with a hot fluid, the hot fluid having a temperature which is higher than the temperature of the formation at a downhole point of injection, activating the fluid-activated gun, thereby converting energy from the pressurised hot fluid into mechanical waves, directing said mechanical waves into the formation, and injecting the hot fluid into the formation simultaneous to activation of the fluid-activated gun by means of the hot fluid. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a stimulation system for stimulation of oil production in an oil field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: WELLTEC A/S
    Inventor: Jørgen Hallundbæk
  • Publication number: 20140262219
    Abstract: A system for recovering hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation includes an upper tunnel extending through the formation. In addition, the system includes a lower tunnel extending through the formation below a portion of the upper tunnel. Further, the system includes a plurality of conduits extending from the upper tunnel through the formation to the lower tunnel. Still further, the system includes a plurality of wellbores extending from the lower tunnel into a hydrocarbon-bearing portion of the formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Richard Beddoes, Ulric Fournier, Mark O. Johnson, Joseph Kirchner, Thomas Krzewinski, William Thompson, Donald Tolfree, Christopher C. West
  • Publication number: 20140246194
    Abstract: The application is related to improving recovery of fracturing fluids from subterranean target earth intervals. The application is also related to improving hydrocarbon productivity of subterranean target earth intervals. The application is also related to controlling the development of fractures in subterranean target earth intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Inventors: Vincent Artus, Chih Chen
  • Publication number: 20140224488
    Abstract: A production zone isolation system includes a sealing mechanism is positioned adjacent to or within the production zone of a well bore such that the expanders are positioned parallel to areas aft and fore of the area which is to be isolated. A refrigerant or cooling agent is pumped into a first inner tubular and exits out of the expanders and into regions of second outer tubular. At pressurized water tilled regions of the well bore that are adjacent to the regions of the second outer tubular, freezing is induced, thereby forming ice plugs and a sealed region therebetween. The refrigerant is not in direct contact with the surrounding water but is instead in juxtaposition to it and separated therefrom by second outer tubular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Triple D Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Darrell S. Kosakewich
  • Publication number: 20140196895
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of recovering a hydrocarbon mixture from a subterranean formation comprising: (i) injecting an oxygen-rich gas into said formation; (ii) combusting said oxygen-rich gas in said formation thereby heating and reducing the viscosity of said hydrocarbon mixture and generating CO2-rich gas; (iii) recovering said heated hydrocarbon; and (iv) capturing at least a portion of CO2 from said CO2-rich gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Statoil ASA
    Inventors: Pentti Paurola, Harald Vindspoll, Knut Vebjørn Grande, Karina Heitnes Hofstad
  • Patent number: 8776900
    Abstract: A process for recovering hydrocarbons from an in situ formation. The process includes the steps of injecting solvent though an injection well into an underground extraction chamber having a hydrocarbon extraction interface, warming the hydrocarbons at the extraction interface to cause the hydrocarbons to flow downwardly by gravity drainage. Barrier gases naturally emerge in the chamber as a result of the extraction process and are removed from the extraction interface to improve heat transfer from said solvent to said interface. The last step is to recover liquids such as hydrocarbons and water through a production well. The invention provides a separate flow path to remove hydrocarbon gases from the chamber at a preferred location. The preferred location is near the top of the chamber where the accumulated barrier gases help to limit the heat loss and can also provide a barrier to help maintain chamber integrity and confinement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Inventors: John Nenniger, Emil Nenniger
  • Publication number: 20140182835
    Abstract: A plant for generation of steam for oil sand recovery from carbonaceous fuel with capture of CO2 from the exhaust gas, comprising heat coils (105, 105?, 105?) arranged in a combustion chamber (101) to cool the combustion gases in the combustion chamber to produce steam and superheated steam in the heat coils, steam withdrawal lines (133, 136, 145) for withdrawing steam from the heat coils, an exhaust gas line (106) for withdrawal of exhaust gas from the combustion chamber (101), where the combustion chamber operates at a pressure of 5 to 15 bara, and one or more heat exchanger(s) (107, 108) are provided for cooling of the combustion gas in line (106), a contact device (113) where the cooled combustion gas is brought in countercurrent flow with a lean CO2 absorbent to give a rich absorbent and a CO2 depleted flue gas, withdrawal lines (114, 115) for withdrawal of rich absorbent and CO2 depleted flue gas, respectively, from the contact device, the line (115) for withdrawal of CO2 depleted flue gas being connect
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SARGAS AS
    Inventors: Knut Børseth, Tor CHRISTENSEN, Henrik FLEISCHER
  • Publication number: 20140166278
    Abstract: A process to recover hydrocarbons from a reservoir having at least one lean zone, wherein said lean zone has an initial bitumen saturation level less than about 0.6, said process including: i) Initially injecting of oxygen into said reservoir; ii) Allowing for combustion of said oxygen to vaporize connate water in said at least one lean zone; and iii) Recovering said hydrocarbons from said reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: NEXEN ENERGY ULC
    Inventor: Richard Kelso Kerr
  • Publication number: 20140166279
    Abstract: A process to recover hydrocarbons from a reservoir, where the hydrocarbons have an initial viscosity greater than 100,000 cp, preferably greater than 1,000 cp, the process including: (a) Initially injecting oxygen into the reservoir; (b) Allowing for combustion of the oxygen to vaporize connate water in the hydrocarbon reservoir; (c) Collecting hydrocarbons in a substantially horizontal production well in the reservoir and where the substantially horizontal production well has a length greater than about 800 metres.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: NEXEN ENERGY ULC
    Inventor: Richard Kelso Kerr
  • Publication number: 20140144623
    Abstract: A method of recovering product from a fracture below a surface, said method including: a. providing a first well that may be stimulated or has been stimulated at a first predetermined depth within a formation; b. stimulating said well resulting in at least one fracture in said formation; said fracture having at least one initiation point and at least one distal point; wherein said at least one initiation point is proximate said stimulated well and said at least one distal point is distant said stimulated well; c. providing at least one non-stimulated well, proximate said first well at a second predetermined depth in said formation and contacting said at least one distal point of said at least one fracture; said at least one non-stimulated well further including at least one access point to capture product from said at least one fracture in said formation; capturing said product from said fracture through said at least non-stimulated well, and recovering said captured product optionally at said surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: NEXEN ENERGY ULC
    Inventors: James Frederick Pyecroft, Brian Douglas Bearinger, Eric von Lunen