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7604064 Multi-stage, multi-phase unitized linear liquid entrained-phase transfer apparatus  
An apparatus capable of receiving oil and gas from a recovery or other input source, compressing and/or pumping said oil and gas using multi-phase compressors with heat exchange means, and...
7559373 Process for fracturing a subterranean formation  
A well may intersect a mineral bearing stratum. A fracturing fluid in the nature of a non-participating gas may be injected into the stratum at high rates of flow, to yield a high down hole...
7464756 Process for in situ recovery of bitumen and heavy oil  
A process is described for in situ recovery of bitumen or heavy oil from a reservoir having a horizontal injection well and a horizontal production well. The process includes a first phase in which...
7461694 Methods for recovering oil from an oil reservoir  
There is a method for enhancing the recovery of oil from a reservoir. The method has the step of a) introducing a flooding fluid into the reservoir and b) extracting the oil through a wellbore at a...
7303006 Method for improved vertical sweep of oil reservoirs  
In a WAG flood oil is displaced from a subterranean formation by injecting water alternately with gas into a single injection completion per pattern. The ratio of water to gas injected is the WAG...
7128150 Acid gas disposal method  
This invention is method of recovering gas from a gas-bearing subterranean formation in which gas is produced from an upper portion of the formation and a waste gas is injected into a lower portion...
7100692 Tertiary oil recovery combined with gas conversion process  
A process for the recovery of oil from a subsurface reservoir in combination with the production of liquid hydrocarbons from a hydrocarbonaceous stream involving: (i) separating an oxygen/nitrogen...
7090014 Process for sequentially applying SAGD to adjacent sections of a petroleum reservoir  
Steam assisted gravity drainage (“SAGD”) is practised in a first section of a reservoir containing heavy oil. When steam/oil ratio rises sufficiently, steam injection into the first section is...
7086482 Recovery of hydrocarbons in oil wells by injection of treated inert gases obtained from the industrial effluence  
A process of recovering hydrocarbons in oil wells by the injection of treated inert gases from cement clinker production effluence(s) comprising the steps of treating the effluence(s) to make the...
7077202 Process for the recovery of oil from a natural oil reservoir  
A method for recovering oil ( 24 ) from a natural oil reservoir ( 18 ) includes the steps of separating air to produce an oxygen rich stream ( 40 ) and a nitrogen rich stream ( 34 ), providing a...
6983804 Method and system for gas-lifting well effluents  
A method and system for gas-lifting well effluents utilizes a porous wall in which an array of small lift-gas injection ports is present such that lift-gas is injected as an agglomerate of finely...
6820689 Method and apparatus for generating pollution free electrical energy from hydrocarbons  
The present invention relates to the generation of substantially pollution free energy by utilizing hydrocarbons to create electrical energy for interconnection to local transmission lines...
6550542 Fluid profile control in enhanced oil recovery  
Fluid profile in an oil field waterflood operation is controlled after water breakthrough occurs by injecting a hydrate forming hydrocarbon gas into the highly permeable breakthrough zone. The...
6439308 Foam drive method  
A foam drive method for enhancing oil recovery efficiently is initiated by injecting into a subterranean oil-bearing formation, an aqueous polymer solution as a preceding-slug. This is followed by...
6364019 Method for sand control in oil, gas and water wells  
A method for treating a subterranean sand formation adjacent to a bore hole forms a permeable solid barrier which restrains the movement of sand particles while maintaining the permeability of the...
6298918 System for lifting petroleum by pneumatic pumping  
The invention relates to a pneumatic system for lifting petroleum, for application in wells, which may be flowing or non-flowing wells, preferably with low productivity levels or with low static...
6109358 Venting apparatus and method for remediation of a porous medium  
This invention relates to generally an apparatus and method for accumulating and discharging a gas under pressure or vacuum to aid the remediation of a contaminated porous medium, such as soil or...
6105672 Enhanced petroleum fluid recovery process in an underground reservoir  
Enhanced (WAG type) oil recovery process in an underground reservoir uses forced injection, through one or more wells, alternately of fluid slugs and gas slugs, and recovery, through one or more...
6079499 Heater well method and apparatus  
A method and apparatus is disclosed for heating of formations using fired heaters. The method includes the steps of: providing a wellbore within the formation to be heated, the wellbore comprising...
6039116 Oil and gas production with periodic gas injection  
A method and apparatus for operating a well which has a wellbore which passes into both an oil and gas production zone and a gas injection zone. An oil and gas stream is produced from the...
6035933 Process for the thermo-hydraulic control of gas hydrates  
A process for the thermo-hydraulic control of gas hydrates in subsea production and injection wells as well as pipelines which transport liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons is described, the process...
5937949 Process for the consolidation of sand  
Process for the consolidation of sand in a well which produces fluids, particularly oil and/or gas, comprising the following steps: 1) optional preflush with an aqueous solution of inorganic...
5927907 Method and apparatus for preventing liquefaction of ground caused by violent earthquake  
In order to form an air-mixed zone containing tiny air bubbles in the ground with feeble cohesion or the cohesionless ground, an air-tight cover 1 covering the air-mixed zone is placed on the...
5899274 Solvent-assisted method for mobilizing viscous heavy oil  
The invention provides a solvent-assisted method for mobilizing viscous heavy oil or bitumen in a reservoir under reservoir conditions without the need to adjust the temperature or pressure. The...
5871053 Method for improving oil recovery from a formation using hydrocarbon analysis of the fluid produced therefrom  
The invention described here is a method for using produced fluid compositions to decide how to modify injection/production strategies in oil recovery processes that involve injection of...
5758727 Enhanced petroleum fluid recovery method in an underground reservoir  
The method according to the invention is aimed at increasing the efficiency of the conventional enhanced petroleum fluid (O) recovery method (WAG) in an underground reservoir, according to which...
5711373 Method for recovering a hydrocarbon liquid from a subterranean formation  
The invention disclosed herein is a method for producing oil from a reservoir after predetermining its residual oil saturation, S orm . Such a method would displace a hydrocarbon fluid in a...
5513705 Foam mixture for steam and carbon dioxide drive oil recovery method  
The invention is a foam method for improving conformance during a steam flood or carbon dioxide flood in a subterranean, oil-containing formation penetrated by at least one injection well and at...
5503226 Process for recovering hydrocarbons by thermally assisted gravity segregation  
A process for recovering hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation having low permeability matrix blocks separated by a well-connected fracture network. Hot light gas is injected into the...
5388641 Method for reducing the inert gas fraction in methane-containing gaseous mixtures obtained from underground formations  
A method for reducing the inert gas fraction volume percent present in a methane-containing mixture produced by injecting an inert gas into a solid carbonaceous subterranean formation is disclosed....
5370182 Thermal extraction system and method  
The Thermal Extraction System and Method utilizes a geothermal heat source to provide thermal energy at the surface by drilling a bore hole into the geothermal heat source and equipping the bore...
5351757 Method for silica gel emplacement for enhanced oil recovery  
A method for emplacing a silicate gel to improve the sweep efficiency of a water, gas, or steam flood operation by reducing the permeability of high-permeability thief zones is disclosed....
5255740 Secondary recovery process  
In accordance with illustrative embodiments of the present invention, a process for the secondary recovery of oil found in a dolomite formation includes generating in-situ decomposition of the...
5232049 Sequentially flooding a subterranean hydrocarbon-bearing formation with a repeating cycle of immiscible displacement gases  
A process is provided for recovering liquid hydrocarbons from a subterranean hydrocarbon-bearing formation by sequential injection of a pair of immiscible gases of differing composition which...
5217076 Method and apparatus for improved recovery of oil from porous, subsurface deposits (targevcir oricess)  
A method and apparatus for the improved recovery of oil from porous sub-surface deposits such as tar sands comprising mining and drilling a well with upper and lower horizontal rectangular grids...
5193617 Micro-slug injection of surfactants in an enhanced oil recovery process  
A method for introducing a surfactant into an oil bearing formation includes plurality of a micro-slug injections of surfactant. Each micro-slug injection comprises an "on time" in which the...
5186256 Three directional drilling process for environmental remediation of contaminated subsurface formations  
The present invention resides in a three directional horizontal drilling process which is suitable for the in-situ treatment or extraction of undesirable contaminants from subsurface formations. A...
5172763 Steam-foam drive  
The time delay experienced between the commencement of the steam-foam drive and the subsequent incremental increase in oil production rate is reduced by simultaneously (a) injecting steam into the...
5145003 Method for in-situ heated annulus refining process  
Recovery of viscous petroleum such as from tar sands is assisted using a controlled flow of hot fluid and hydrogen-generating gas in a flow path within the formation; thus a solid-wall hollow...
5062483 Treatment for reducing water coning in an oil reservoir  
The invention has application only to a first oil well producing oil having a high water cut, said oil well being completed in a reservoir having an increased gas saturation, in the vicinity of the...
5052487 Sequential injection foam process for enhanced oil recovery  
This invention provides a method for enhanced oil recovery which comprises two steps. In the first step, an oil-mobilizing agent comprising (a) a gas and an alkyl aromatic sulfonate or (b) an...
5052482 Catalytic downhole reactor and steam generator  
A Downhole catalytic Methanator reactor assembly is hung within the cemented casing of a vertical well for the purpose of producing large volumes of high quality steam and oil soluble gases for...
5031698 Steam foam surfactants enriched in alpha olefin disulfonates for enhanced oil recovery  
An improved process for recovering oil by flowing a mixture of steam and steam foam surfactant into an oil-containing subterranean reservoir, the improvement provided by using surfactants enriched...
5014785 Methane production from carbonaceous subterranean formations  
A method of producing methane by injecting inert gas, such as nitrogen, through an injection well into a solid carbonaceous subterranean formation (e.g., coal) and recovering methane from a...
4993490 Overburn process for recovery of heavy bitumens  
A method for the production of bitumen from a subterranean reservoir having a zone of increased effective permeability therein. In particular, a first well is in fluid communication with the zone...
4961467 Enhanced oil recovery for oil reservoir underlain by water  
A method for recovering viscous oil from a subterranean, viscous oil-containing formation underlain by a water zone. Steam is injected into the formation via the injection well at the oil/water...
4930574 Method for tertiary oil recovery from deep-well drill holes with utilization of the escaping petroleum gas  
The process is of special interest to refinieries in the neighborhood of existing oilfields. The crude oil additionally released in the known manner by the introduction of hot water or steam...
4883122 Method of coalbed methane production  
A method of producing coalbed methane by injecting inert gas, such as nitrogen, through an injection well into the coal seam and recovering coalbed methane from a production well(s). Methane...
4860827 Process and device for oil recovery using steam and oxygen-containing gas  
Oil is recovered from an underground formation by the use of steam and a gas rich in oxygen. In a priming stage, high quality saturated steam or superheated steam is injected into the formation to...
4856587 Recovery of oil from oil-bearing formation by continually flowing pressurized heated gas through channel alongside matrix  
The invention comprises a method and apparatus for recovering oil from so-called depleted oil fields and also from tar sands. A pressurized, heated, non-aqueous gas, such as carbon dioxide, is...
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