Wells – Processes – Heating – cooling or insulating
Patent
1983-02-25
1985-04-16
Novosad, Stephen J.
Wells
Processes
Heating, cooling or insulating
166272, 166 50, 166306, E21B 3600, E21B 4312, E21B 4324
Patent
active
045110000
ABSTRACT:
A well completion, having an injection end and a recovery end, and method for recovering heavy hydrocarbons or bitumen from a subterranean formation. The completion includes a well liner which lies in a generally horizontal disposition within a hydrocarbon holding substrate. Means for carrying a stream of a hot stimulating fluid from the well's injection end such that said fluid will migrate into the substrate surrounding the liner. A fluid impervious barrier is movably positioned within the well liner between the injection end and the production end thereof, and prompts establishment of a pressure differential across the said barrier. The barrier urges pressurized stimulating agent outwardly into the substrate, thereby creating a heated path along which the bitumen emulsion flows toward the well's lower pressure production end. The barrier is adapted to be repositioned within the liner to adjust the bitumen flow path through the substrate.
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Burns Robert B.
Kulason Robert A.
Neuder William P.
Novosad Stephen J.
Texaco Inc.
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