Inventors
Eric Pierre De Rouffignac, Harold J Vinegar, Scott Lee Wellington, Gordon Thomas Shahin Jr, Ilya Emil Berchenko, George Leo Stegemeier, Kevin Albert Maher, Etuan Zhang, Thomas David Fowler, Robert Charles Ryan
Publication date
2004/3/30
Patent office
US
Patent number
6712136
Application number
09841489
Description
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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EP De Rouffignac, HJ Vinegar, SL Wellington… - US Patent 6,712,136, 2004