50 patents
Utility
In-situ Oil Upgrading Via Deasphalting
28 Dec 23
A method for producing hydrocarbons from a subterranean reservoir, the method comprising the steps of: injecting steam and injecting a silica-based asphaltene-sorbent into the subterranean reservoir; allowing the silica-based asphaltene-sorbent to adsorb asphaltenes from the hydrocarbons, thereby producing upgraded hydrocarbons and asphaltenes adsorbed to the silica-based asphaltene-sorbent in the subterranean reservoir; and producing the upgraded hydrocarbons, without producing the asphaltenes adsorbed to the silica-based asphaltene-sorbent.
Amos BEN-ZVI, Nashaat NASSAR, Paulina MORASSE, Lukemon ADETUNJI
Filed: 20 Jun 23
Utility
System, method and apparatus for creating virtual point sources within a hydrocarbon formation
28 Nov 23
Downhole tools and method for a well.
Tim J. Davies
Filed: 9 Oct 18
Utility
Mechanically resilient bitumen microcapsules for midstream transport
21 Nov 23
Disclosed herein are methods of preparing bitumen for transport, apparatus for preparing bitumen for transport, methods of transporting bitumen, and transportation-ready forms of bitumen.
Subodh Gupta, Anita, Sarbajit Banerjee, Wasif Zaheer
Filed: 3 Nov 21
Utility
Methods for recovering solvent and producing hydrocarbons from subterranean reservoirs
21 Nov 23
Methods are provided for producing hydrocarbons and recovering solvent from a subterranean reservoir that is penetrated by an injection well and a production well, in which a production phase involves injecting solvent (and optionally steam) to mobilize viscous hydrocarbons and a solvent-recovery phase involves non-condensable gas injection.
Prince Azom, Amos Ben-Zvi, Simon D. Gittins, Ishan Deep Singh Kochhar, Ryan Miller
Filed: 18 Jun 21
Utility
Process for preparing a well for a hydrocarbon recovery operation by redirecting produced emulsion during startup to a low-pressure surface line
31 Oct 23
A process for preparing a well for use in subsequent recovery of hydrocarbons from a hydrocarbon-bearing formation wherein (i) mobilizing fluid is injected into the formation and emulsion fluids are produced to surface and directed to a high-pressure produced emulsion line, reducing pressure in the well, (ii) mobilizing fluid injection is terminated while emulsion production continues at reduced pressure, (iii) redirecting a portion of the reduced-pressure emulsion fluids to an additional low-pressure line instead of the produced emulsion line, and (iv) pumping the portion of the emulsion fluids at an elevated pressure from the additional line into the produced emulsion line.
Desmond Larry Procinsky
Filed: 12 Jan 22
Utility
Fluid flow control in a hydrocarbon recovery operation
10 Oct 23
A method of completing an injection well includes determining a volume of recoverable oil in each of a plurality of intervals along the injection well in a reservoir, and determining a target steam flow for respective ones of the intervals to facilitate recovery of the recoverable oil from the intervals.
Kevin Beary, Jessica Girling, Jason Griffiths, Michael N. Holmes, Mike Miller, Joel Schmitz, Lazar Velev
Filed: 17 Jun 21
Utility
Process for providing steam for a hydrocarbon recovery process
10 Oct 23
A hydrocarbon recovery process for recovering hydrocarbons from a hydrocarbon-bearing formation includes preheating a pipe coupling a steam generation facility to a well for injection of steam into the hydrocarbon-bearing formation by controlling heat traces extending along the pipe, directing steam generated at the steam generation facility, through the pipe after preheating, and injecting the steam into the hydrocarbon-bearing formation via the well, and controlling heat input to the pipe by controlling the heat traces extending along the pipe as the steam travels through the pipe.
Timothy Bennet Anderson
Filed: 21 Oct 21
Utility
System and method for analyzing reservoir changes during production
8 Aug 23
There is disclosed a system and method for analyzing geological features of a reservoir, such as a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir undergoing changes during different stages of its production, by utilizing an artificial neural network to learn from hydrocarbon reservoir production project.
Behrang Koushavand
Filed: 15 Sep 20
Utility
Non-condensable gas management during production of in-situ hydrocarbons
1 Aug 23
Methods for producing hydrocarbons from subterranean reservoirs utilize a production well having a plurality of individually-actuatable fluid-inlet components that are spaced apart to define a plurality of production-well fluid-inlet zones.
Amos Ben-Zvi, Amin Fardi, Simon D Gittins, Michael Miller, Ryan Miller, Trenton M Schrader
Filed: 18 Jun 21
Utility
System and process for producing diluent from dilbit, transportation, and treatment of heavy oil
11 Jul 23
A process for producing diluent for use in a hydrocarbon recovery process includes heating a dilbit feed stream comprising hydrocarbons produced from a hydrocarbon reservoir and an added diluent, to a temperature of 350° C. or less, fractionating the dilbit feed stream after heating to produce a light fraction and a heavy fraction, the light fraction comprising the diluent, additional light hydrocarbons, and sour water, separating the sour water from a remainder of the light fraction, and stabilizing the remainder of the light fraction to provide recovered diluent and cooling the recovered diluent.
Kelly Margaret Bell, Eusebio Palmisano, Michael Somerville, Michael Douglas Stillwell, Meghan Elizabeth Butler, Dahai Dong, Steve Hicks, Timothy Michael Koskowich
Filed: 25 Nov 21
Utility
Methods for producing hydrocarbons from thin, heterogenous pay reservoirs using vertically coplanar injection and production wells with a transverse pressure gradient
30 May 23
A method of producing hydrocarbons from a subterranean reservoir using laterally displaced and substantially vertically coplanar injection and production wells, in which at least one annulus-flow restrictor is positioned within the injection well diagonally opposed to a production inlet on the production well, so that injecting mobilizing fluid into the subterranean reservoir and producing mobilized hydrocarbons from the subterranean reservoir creates a transverse pressure gradient between the injection well and the production well.
Chris Elliott, Jesse Clinton Keith
Filed: 19 May 21
Utility
Fluid Flow Control In a Hydrocarbon Recovery Operation
23 Mar 23
A method of completing an injection well includes determining a volume of recoverable oil in each of a plurality of intervals along the injection well in a reservoir, and determining a target steam flow for respective ones of the intervals to facilitate recovery of the recoverable oil from the intervals.
Kevin BEARY, Jessica GIRLING, Jason Griffiths, Michael N. HOLMES, Mike Miller, Joel SCHMITZ, Lazar VELEV
Filed: 22 Nov 22
Utility
Fluid Flow Control In a Hydrocarbon Recovery Operation
23 Mar 23
A method of completing an injection well includes determining a volume of recoverable oil in each of a plurality of intervals along the injection well in a reservoir, and determining a target steam flow for respective ones of the intervals to facilitate recovery of the recoverable oil from the intervals.
Kevin BEARY, Jessica GIRLING, Jason GRIFFITHS, Michael N. HOLMES, Mike MILLER, Joel SCHMITZ, Lazar VELEV
Filed: 23 Nov 22
Utility
Conformance control in hydrocarbon recovery
14 Mar 23
Processes are provided for conformance control in the production of hydrocarbons from reservoirs, involving the distribution of mobilizing injection fluids into a formation through a number of injection fluid distribution points spaced apart along an injection well.
Simon D. Gittins, Jason R. C. Griffiths, Michael Miller
Filed: 18 Jun 21
Utility
Carbon Dioxide or Hydrogen Sulfide Sequestration In a Subterranean Reservoir Using Sorbent Particles
16 Feb 23
Methods are provided for sequestering a pollutant gas of carbon dioxide (CO2) gas and/or hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas in a subterranean reservoir.
Amos BEN-ZVI, Michael Patrick McKAY, Paulina MORASSE
Filed: 3 Aug 22
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End-of-life Recovery of Mobilized Hydrocarbons
16 Feb 23
Methods are provided herein for an end-of-life recovery of mobilized hydrocarbons from a stranded hydrocarbon pay zone within a subterranean reservoir by way of a recovery well.
Emeka Chinedu Chineme, Ishan Deep Singh Kochhar
Filed: 12 Aug 22
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Steam-enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery Using Hydrogen Sulfide-sorbent Particles to Reduce Hydrogen Sulfide Production from a Subterranean Reservoir
16 Feb 23
Amos BEN-ZVI, Michael Patrick McKAY, Paulina MORASSE, Simon GITTINS
Filed: 3 Aug 22
Utility
Apparatus and Method for Oil Production Forecasting
29 Dec 22
A method and apparatus for forecasting oil production from an oil well in a geological formation includes receiving a plurality of sets of predicted geological data, for each of the plurality of sets of predicted geological data, determining a probability for the predicted geological data of the formation, iteratively selecting one of the plurality of sets of predicted geological data using Monte Carlo sampling based on the determined probabilities, assigning the selected set of predicted geological data to a cluster of historical data, and for each set of historical data of the cluster generating a predicted oil production rate as a function of time utilizing a machine learning based oil model, generating, based on the predicted oil production rates, a forecasted oil production rate, determining, based on the forecasted oil production rate, a preferred operating parameter for the well, and operating based on the preferred operating parameter.
Amos BENZVI, Seyide HUNYINBO, Juliana Y. LEUNG, Azom PRINCE
Filed: 25 Jun 21
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System and Process for Installing a Hydrocarbon Production System
8 Sep 22
A system for use in hydrocarbon production includes a well that has a wellhead and extends downhole into a reservoir.
Clifford Vernon HOGSTEAD
Filed: 1 Mar 22
Utility
Coiled Tubing Injector and Method of Controlling Same
28 Jul 22
A coiled tubing injector for running coiled tubing into and out of a well in a hydrocarbon-bearing formation, includes a coiled tubing injector head including a base and a gripping mechanism configured to grip the coiled tubing running through the base and to advance and retract the coiled tubing, and a control system.
Mark Alexander DAY
Filed: 14 Dec 21