摘要:
A method of producing hydrocarbons and a selected metal in situ from a fixed-bed hydrocarbon formation disposed below a ground surface and having a higher permeability zone substantially parallel to, and between a top lower permeability zone and a bottom lower permeability zone. The steps include providing at least one injection well and first and second production wells in the higher permeability zone, injecting a heated thermal-energy carrier fluid (TECF) into the injection well, circulating the carrier fluid through the zone and creating a substantially horizontal situ heating element (ISHE) between the injection well and the production wells for mobilizing the hydrocarbons and the selected metal.
摘要:
A method of producing hydrocarbons in situ from a fixed-bed hydrocarbon formation disposed below a ground surface and having a higher permeability zone substantially parallel to, and between a top lower permeability zone and a bottom lower permeability zone. The steps include providing at least one injection well and first and second production wells in the higher permeability zone, injecting a heated thermal-energy carrier fluid (TECF) into the injection well, circulating the carrier fluid through the zone and creating a substantially horizontal situ heating element (ISHE) between the injection well and the production wells for mobilizing the hydrocarbons.
摘要:
A system and method for producing hydrocarbons in situ from an oil shale, fixed bed hydrocarbon formation disposed below a ground surface and having a naturally occurring, water-flow leached, higher permeability zone next to a lower permeability zone. The system includes at least one injection opening and at least one production opening in the naturally occurring, water-flow leached, higher permeability zone. A heated thermal-energy carrier fluid is injected into the injection opening and circulated horizontally through the higher permeability zone. The carrier fluid pyrolyzes the hydrocarbons in the lower and higher permeability zones in situ by heating the higher permeability zone and the adjacent lower permeability zone along an interface extending substantially between from the injection opening and the production opening and produces at least a portion of the mobilized hydrocarbons by flowing the carrier fluid with the pyrolyzed hydrocarbons through the production opening to the ground surface.
摘要:
A method and system for producing hydrocarbons in situ from a heavy-oil and tar sand fixed bed, hydrocarbon deposit distributed substantially within a porous formation. The porous formation is disposed below a ground surface. The system includes at least one injection well drilled into the formation and spaced apart from at least one production well also drilled into the formation. A heated thermal-energy carrier fluid is circulated under pressure into the injection well, circulated under pressure through a hydraulic fracture in the formation. The hydraulic fracture is disposed between the injection well and the production well. The circulated carrier fluid mobilizes hydrocarbons in at least a portion of the hydrocarbon deposit in situ by heating the hydraulic fracture and surrounding formation and producing at least a portion of the mobilized hydrocarbons by flowing the carrier fluid with mobilized hydrocarbons through the production well and fractionating the hydrocarbons to generate at least two fluid fractures having differing chemical compositions.
摘要:
A gas/air compressor system used for compressing a gas/air stream of air, oxygen, oxygen-enriched air and other combustible gases and delivering a moderate-to-high temperature, moderate-to-high pressure fluid to a pipeline connected to one or more injection wells. Fuel with cooling water is injected downhole for combustion in the compressed gas/air stream to be used for in-situ-retorting of oil shale, volatile coal beds, tar sands, heavy oil and other hydrocarbon or carbonaceous deposits. A preferred embodiment of the compressor system includes a compressor housing with a male screw rotor having helical lobes received in helical grooves in a female screw rotor. The housing includes a gas/air inlet for receiving the gas/air stream therein and a series of water/mineral injectors for injecting a water/mineral slurry into the rotating screw rotors. The water/mineral slurry acts as a sealant, a lubricant and also a coolant for male and female screw rotors during the compression cycle. The slurry is non-combustible and non-reactive to combustion-supporting gases. Also, the housing includes a gas/air outlet for discharging the compressed gas/air stream into the pipeline connected to the injection wells used in the in-situ-retorting process.
摘要:
The system and method of the present invention permits control of down hole fluid pressures during under balanced drilling, tripping of the drill string, and well completion to substantially avoid “killing” of the well and thereby damaging the producing formations in the well bore. The system and method utilizes separate and interconnected fluid pathways for introducing a downwardly flowing hydrodynamic control fluid through one fluid pathway and for removing through the other fluid pathway a commingled fluid formed by mixing of the hydrodynamic control fluid and the well bore fluids flowing upwardly in the well bore.
摘要:
The present invention discloses a system and method for completing a well for the collection of fluids from a plurality of subterranean zones at different depths. The system includes a fluid pathway along which a first and second fluid travel. The first and second fluids form an interface that is moved along the fluid pathway to cause the formation of a fracture in the zones. The pressure at any point along the fluid pathway depends upon the position of the interface.
摘要:
Subterranean oil and gas producing formations are fractured by filling a well casing with a compressible hydraulic fracturing fluid comprising a mixture of liquid, compressed gas, and propant material and precompressed to a pressure of about 1,000 psi or more greater than the fracture extension pressure at the depth of the zone to be fractured. A perforator is provided in the casing to form fluid exit perforations at the selected depth of the fracture zone. Following perforation the perforated zone is fractured by the precompressed fracturing fluid laden with propant material that is discharged into the formation until the hydraulic extension pressure is reached and the perforations are eventually sanded off. Optionally, filling of the well bore is maintained continuously through the filling and perforation of the casing until after decompression of the fracturing fluid is completed.
摘要:
A well drilling fluid comprises a solution having dissolved therein a relatively small quantity of potassium silicate or, for some applications, sodium silicate or a mixture of sodium silicate and potassium chloride. The body of the fluid may be water or a presently available mud or other drilling fluid with which the silicate is compatible. The fluid on reaching shale sections along the well bore acts to stabilize the shale and prevent its swelling, dispersing or sloughing.
摘要:
An in-situ oil shale production system used for economically mobilizing and extracting hydrocarbons in an underground oil shale deposit. The production system includes a plurality of injection wells, a plurality of production wells and a thermal energy carrier, called herein “TECF”. The TECF is injected through the injection wells into a naturally occurring, highly-permeable zone. The highly-permeable zone is used to create a porous heating element. The porous heating element, at high temperatures in the range of 900 to 1300 degrees F., mobilizes and retorts the hydrocarbons in the porous heating elements. The hydrocarbons with the TECF then flow from the porous heating element through the production wells to the ground surface for refining. The surface area of the large porous heating element provides a means for economic, in-situ retorting of hydrocarbons from a carbon-rich, oil shale geologic formation.