50 patents
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Utility
Process for Preparing a Well for a Hydrocarbon Recovery Operation
21 Jul 22
A process for preparing a well for use in recovery of hydrocarbons from a hydrocarbon-bearing formation is provided.
Desmond Larry PROCINSKY
Filed: 12 Jan 22
Utility
Methods of Hydrocarbon Production Enhanced by In-situ Solvent De-asphalting
16 Jun 22
Disclosed herein are methods for producing hydrocarbons from a subterranean reservoir that is penetrated by an injection well and a production well.
Prince Azom, Amos Ben-Zvi
Filed: 14 Dec 21
Utility
Process for Providing Steam for a Hydrocarbon Recovery Process
16 Jun 22
A process for providing steam from a steam source to a well located remote from the steam source, includes heating a first portion of a first pipe by directing steam along the first portion of the first pipe that extends along a first segment of a path between the steam source and the well, across a first cross-over pipe, and back to the steam source, along a first portion of a second pipe that extends along the first segment of the path.
Timothy Bennet ANDERSON
Filed: 28 Oct 21
Utility
System and Process for Producing Diluent from Dilbit, Transportation, and Treatment of Heavy Oil
2 Jun 22
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
Dense aqueous gravity displacement of heavy oil
10 May 22
Methods are provided that facilitate the production of hydrocarbons from subterranean formations, involving the mobilization of an immobile heavy oil in situ by gravity displacement.
Amos Ben-Zvi, Ishan Deep S. Kochhar, Michael Patrick McKay
Filed: 31 Jan 20
Utility
Mechanically Resilient Bitumen Microcapsules for Midstream Transport
5 May 22
Subodh GUPTA, ANITA, Sarbajit BANERJEE, Wasif ZAHEER
Filed: 3 Nov 21
Utility
Hydrocarbon-production Methods Employing Multiple Solvent Processes Across a Well Pad
5 May 22
Disclosed are methods for producing hydrocarbons from a subterranean reservoir.
Prince AZOM, Amos BEN-ZVI
Filed: 4 Nov 21
Utility
Process for Providing Steam for a Hydrocarbon Recovery Process
28 Apr 22
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
Process for Producing Steam for a Hydrocarbon Recovery Process
3 Mar 22
A process for producing steam for use in a hydrocarbon recovery process includes introducing feed water into a steam generator to produce the steam and a blowdown stream, contacting the blowdown stream from the steam generator with a flue gas including carbon dioxide from the steam generator to absorb at least a portion of the carbon dioxide from the flue gas, and directing the blowdown stream including the portion of the carbon dioxide absorbed from the flue gas, into a disposal well.
Paul Edward ST. AMANT
Filed: 18 Aug 21
Utility
Mass Liquid Fluidity Meter and Process for Determining Water Cut In Hydrocarbon and Water Emulsions
24 Feb 22
Disclosed is a process and mass liquid flow (MLF) meter for measuring water cut, the MLF meter including a variable speed pump, a blind mixing T, a Coriolis meter, a differential pressure sensor, and a backpressure valve, and the process including maintaining a velocity of an emulsion through a Coriolis meter within a predetermined threshold from a predetermined velocity by controlling the variable speed pump, maintaining a pressure within the MLF meter to above a minimum pressure by controlling the backpressure valve, measuring a differential pressure across the Coriolis meter utilizing the differential pressure sensor, measuring a mass flow in the MLF meter utilizing the Coriolis meter, determining a viscosity based on the measured differential pressure and mass flow, and determining water cut of the emulsion based on the determined viscosity.
Mark Lawrence FLYNN
Filed: 23 Aug 21
Utility
Fluid Flow Control In a Hydrocarbon Recovery Operation
23 Dec 21
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
Non-condensable Gas Management During Production of In-situ Hydrocarbons
23 Dec 21
Methods for producing hydrocarbons from subterranean reservoirs are disclosed herein.
Amos Ben-Zvi, Amin Fardi, Simon D. Gittins, Michael Miller, Ryan Miller, Trenton M. Schrader
Filed: 18 Jun 21
Utility
Gas-phase Solvent Management During Production of In-situ Hydrocarbons
23 Dec 21
Methods for producing hydrocarbons from subterranean reservoirs are disclosed herein.
Amos BEN-ZVI, Amin FARDI, Simon D GITTINS, Michael MILLER, Ryan MILLER, Trenton M SCHRADER
Filed: 18 Jun 21
Utility
Methods for Recovering Solvent and Producing Hydrocarbons from Subteranean Reservoirs
23 Dec 21
Disclosed are methods of producing hydrocarbons and recovering solvent from a subterranean reservoir that is penetrated by an injection well and a production well.
Prince AZOM, Amos BEN-ZVI, Simon D GITTINS, Ishan Deep Singh KOCHHAR, Ryan MILLER
Filed: 18 Jun 21
Utility
Conformance Control In Hydrocarbon Recovery
23 Dec 21
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
System and Method for Solid Catalyst Separation In Slurry Reactors
25 Nov 21
A system and method for processing a treated feed slurry produced by a slurry reactor.
Reza MALEK ABBASLOU, Ronald Scott SMITH
Filed: 19 May 21
Utility
Methods for Producing Hydrocarbons from Thin, Heterogenous Pay Reservoirs
25 Nov 21
Disclosed herein is a method of producing hydrocarbons from a subterranean reservoir, the method comprising: penetrating at least a portion of the subterranean reservoir with a first well and a second well, positioning an annulus-flow restrictor within the substantially-horizontal section of the first well at a distance, d1, from a produced-fluid inlet of the second well, injecting mobilizing fluid into the subterranean reservoir via a mobilizing-fluid injection outlet of the first well to mobilize hydrocarbons therewithin, and producing mobilized hydrocarbons from the subterranean reservoir via the produced-fluid inlet.
Chris ELLIOTT, Jesse Clinton KEITH
Filed: 19 May 21
Utility
Process for producing fluids from a hydrocarbon-bearing formation
9 Nov 21
A process includes injecting mobilizing fluid, including a solvent, through an injection well and into a hydrocarbon-bearing formation.
Clifford Vernon Hogstead
Filed: 4 Nov 19
Utility
System, Method and Apparatus for Reduced Water Usage for Fracturing Hydrocarbon Wells with Three-dimensional Imaging of the Formation from a Single Borehole
1 Jul 21
Provided are methods of reducing water consumption in a fracturing operation.
Tim J. DAVIES
Filed: 7 Jun 19
Utility
Transportable bitumen blends having a seperable high-octane low vapor pressure fraction
29 Jun 21
Low vapor pressure hydrocarbon blends are provided, comprising miscible and separable hydrocarbon fractions.
Manuel F. Gonzalez, Timothy Michael Koskowich, Eusebio Palmisano
Filed: 11 Apr 18