Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Kerogen extraction from subterranean oil shale resources
- Patent Title (中): 从地下油页岩资源中提取原油
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Application No.: US12361473Application Date: 2009-01-28
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Publication No.: US07789164B2Publication Date: 2010-09-07
- Inventor: Mark Dean Looney , Robert Steven Lestz , Kirk Hollis , Craig Taylor , Scott Kinkead , Marcus Wigand
- Applicant: Mark Dean Looney , Robert Steven Lestz , Kirk Hollis , Craig Taylor , Scott Kinkead , Marcus Wigand
- Applicant Address: US CA San Ramon US NM Los Alamos
- Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.,Los Alamos National Security
- Current Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.,Los Alamos National Security
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Ramon US NM Los Alamos
- Agency: Merchant & Gould PC
- Main IPC: E21B43/17
- IPC: E21B43/17 ; E21B43/22 ; E21B43/24 ; E21B43/263
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to methods for extracting a kerogen-based product from subsurface (oil) shale formations, wherein such methods rely on fracturing and/or rubblizing portions of said formations so as to enhance their fluid permeability, and wherein such methods further rely on chemically modifying the shale-bound kerogen so as to render it mobile. The present invention is also directed at systems for implementing at least some of the foregoing methods. Additionally, the present invention is also directed to methods of fracturing and/or rubblizing subsurface shale formations and to methods of chemically modifying kerogen in situ so as to render it mobile.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090126934A1 Kerogen Extraction from Subterranean Oil Shale Resources Public/Granted day:2009-05-21
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