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- Patent Title: Low-pressure method and apparatus of producing hydrocarbons from an underground formation using electric resistive heating and solvent injection
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Application No.: US15078917Application Date: 2016-03-23
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Publication No.: US10934822B2Publication Date: 2021-03-02
- Inventor: Gerald V. Chalifoux
- Applicant: PETROSPEC ENGINEERING INC.
- Applicant Address: CA Sherwood Park
- Assignee: PETROSPEC ENGINEERING INC.
- Current Assignee: PETROSPEC ENGINEERING INC.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Sherwood Park
- Agency: Christensen O'Connor Johnson Kindness, PLLC
- Main IPC: E21B43/24
- IPC: E21B43/24 ; E21B43/16 ; E21B43/30 ; E21B43/241

Abstract:
A method of producing hydrocarbons from an underground formation having an array of horizontal wells has the steps of: inserting one or more heater strings into at least one heater well section, the heater string comprising a heating element and a flow passage for transporting fluid from a fluid input to at least one injection port; activating the heating element of the heater string to heat the formation sufficient to produce hydrocarbons from the formation immediately adjacent to the at least one heater well section; heating and injecting a solvent into the at least one heater well in the gaseous phase through the at least one injection port of the heater string such that the solvent is injected into the voidage in the at least one heater well section created by the produced hydrocarbons; and producing hydrocarbons from at least one producer well.
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