- Patent Title: Hydrocarbon recovery process exploiting multiple induced fractures
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Application No.: US15619305Application Date: 2017-06-09
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Publication No.: US10024148B2Publication Date: 2018-07-17
- Inventor: Conrad Ayasse
- Applicant: IOR Canada Ltd.
- Applicant Address: unknown Calgary, Alberta
- Assignee: 1OR Canada Ltd.
- Current Assignee: 1OR Canada Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: unknown Calgary, Alberta
- Agent D. Doak Horne
- Priority: CA2820742 20130704; CA2835592 20131128
- Main IPC: E21B43/17
- IPC: E21B43/17 ; E21B43/14 ; E21B43/26

Abstract:
A method for enhancing production from multiple-fractured underground “tight” formations. Spaced upwardly-extending injection fissures are created along a horizontal injection wellbore, and upwardly-extending collection fissures, alternately spaced with the injection fissures, are created along the horizontal injection wellbore or another adjacent production wellbore. The injection wellbore is supplied with fluid under pressure, which flows into such created fissures and drives reservoir fluids within the formation to the remaining (alternately) spaced adjacent fissures along such wellbore or another parallel adjacent (production) wellbore, thereby allowing reservoir fluids to flow downwardly along such alternately spaced production fissures for collection. In a refinement, production is carried out initially from both the production and injection wellbores, and upon the rate of production of hydrocarbons slowing, production from the injection wellbore is stopped and a fluid is injected therein and thus into the formation via the alternate spaced fissures, thereby re-pressurizing the formation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170275978A1 HYDROCARBON RECOVERY PROCESS EXPLOITING MULTIPLE INDUCED FRACTURES Public/Granted day:2017-09-28
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