IN SITU THERMAL PROCESSING OF A HYDROCARBON CONTAINING FORMATION USING A SELECTED PRODUCTION WELL SPACING
Patent №
US 6,712,136
Granted
2004-03-30
Filed 2001
Owner
SHELL OIL COMPANY
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Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09841489
A hydrocarbon containing formation may be treated using an in situ thermal process. A mixture of hydrocarbons, H2, and/or other formation fluids may be produced from the formation. Heat may be applied to the formation to raise a temperature of a portion of the formation to a pyrolysis temperature. The mixture may be produced from the formation through production wells. A spacing between production wells, and operating conditions of production wells and heat injection wells, may allow the produced mixture to have a desired ratio of condensable hydrocarbons to non-condensable hydrocarbons.
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Ownership
SHELL OIL COMPANY
assignment · 122300524
Assignors
DE ROUFFIGNAC, ERIC PIERRE, VINEGAR, HAROLD J., WELLINGTON, SCOTT LEE, BERCHENKO, ILYA EMIL, STEGEMEIER, GEORGE LEO, MAHER, KEVIN ALBERT, ZHANG, ETUAN, SHAHIN, JR., GORDON THOMAS, FOWLER, THOMAS DAVID, RYAN, ROBERT CHARLES
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