Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Remote steam generation and water-hydrocarbon separation in steam-assisted gravity drainage operations
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Application No.: US14671104Application Date: 2015-03-27
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Publication No.: US10246979B2Publication Date: 2019-04-02
- Inventor: Andrew Donald , Todd Stewart Pugsley , Gary L. Bunio , Ian Donald Gates
- Applicant: Suncor Energy Inc.
- Applicant Address: CA Calgary
- Assignee: Suncor Energy Inc.
- Current Assignee: Suncor Energy Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Calgary
- Agency: Brinks Gilson & Lione
- Priority: CA2847881 20140328
- Main IPC: E21B43/40
- IPC: E21B43/40 ; E21B43/24 ; E21B43/16

Abstract:
A Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) method for recovering hydrocarbons from a reservoir can include generating steam and CO2 from feedwater, fuel and oxygen; transferring a steam-CO2 mixture comprising at least a portion of the steam and at least a portion of the CO2, to a proximate SAGD injection well; injecting the steam-CO2 mixture into the SAGD injection well; obtaining produced fluids from a SAGD production well underlying the SAGD injection well; transferring the produced fluids for separation proximate to the SAGD production well; separating the produced fluids into a produced gas and a produced emulsion; transferring the produced emulsion for separation proximate to the SAGD production well; separating the produced emulsion to obtain a produced hydrocarbon-containing component and produced water; supplying at least a portion of the produced water as at least part of the feedwater; and supplying the produced hydrocarbon-containing component to a central processing facility.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150275637A1 REMOTE STEAM GENERATION AND WATER-HYDROCARBON SEPARATION IN STEAM-ASSISTED GRAVITY DRAINAGE OPERATONS Public/Granted day:2015-10-01
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