Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of balancing resource recovery from a resource bearing formation
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Application No.: US14585883Application Date: 2014-12-30
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Publication No.: US09650876B2Publication Date: 2017-05-16
- Inventor: Freeman L. Hill , Cameron J. McBurney , Caleb M. Conrad
- Applicant: Freeman L. Hill , Cameron J. McBurney , Caleb M. Conrad
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Main IPC: E21B43/16
- IPC: E21B43/16

Abstract:
A method of recovering resources from a resource bearing formation includes selectively injecting a fluid into the resource bearing formation through one or more injector wells, extracting a resource from the resource bearing formation through one or more production wells, receiving at a sweep pattern controller, an input from each of the one or more production wells indicating an amount of the resource extracted over a period of time, determining, in the sweep pattern controller, an adjusted sweep pattern for the formation that substantially equalizes production from each of the one or more production wells, and signaling each of the one or more injector wells, from the sweep pattern controller, to selectively inject the fluid to establish the adjusted sweep pattern in the formation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160186539A1 METHOD OF BALANCING RESOURCE RECOVERY FROM A RESOURCE BEARING FORMATION Public/Granted day:2016-06-30
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