Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods for treating hydrocarbon formations
- Patent Title (中): 处理烃地层的方法
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Application No.: US13083272Application Date: 2011-04-08
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Publication No.: US08701768B2Publication Date: 2014-04-22
- Inventor: Marian Marino , Gary Lee Beer , Richard Pollard , Augustinus Wilhelmus Maria Roes
- Applicant: Marian Marino , Gary Lee Beer , Richard Pollard , Augustinus Wilhelmus Maria Roes
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: Shell Oil Company
- Current Assignee: Shell Oil Company
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Main IPC: E21B36/04
- IPC: E21B36/04

Abstract:
Systems and methods for treating a subsurface formation are described herein. Some method include providing heat to a section of the formation from a plurality of heaters located in the formation, allowing the heat to transfer from the heaters to heat a portion of the section to a selected temperature to generate an in situ deasphalting fluid in the section, contacting at least a portion of the in situ deasphalting fluid with hydrocarbons in the section to remove at least some asphaltenes from the hydrocarbons in the section, and producing at least a portion of the deasphalted hydrocarbons from the formation. The in situ deasphalting fluid may include hydrocarbons having a boiling range distribution between 35° C. and 260° C. at 0.101 MPa. A majority of the hydrocarbons in the section may have a boiling point greater than 260° C. at 0.101 MPa.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110247820A1 METHODS FOR TREATING HYDROCARBON FORMATIONS Public/Granted day:2011-10-13
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