Kerogen extraction from subterranean oil shale resources
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.
- Inventors:
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- Houston, TX
- Missouri City, TX
- Los Alamos, NM
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 988386
- Patent Number(s):
- 7500517
- Application Number:
- 11/675,468
- Assignee:
- Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, CA); Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, NM)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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C - CHEMISTRY C09 - DYES C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
E - FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS E21 - EARTH DRILLING E21B - EARTH DRILLING, e.g. DEEP DRILLING
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
Citation Formats
Looney, Mark Dean, Lestz, Robert Steven, Hollis, Kirk, Taylor, Craig, Kinkead, Scott, and Wigand, Marcus. Kerogen extraction from subterranean oil shale resources. United States: N. p., 2009.
Web.
Looney, Mark Dean, Lestz, Robert Steven, Hollis, Kirk, Taylor, Craig, Kinkead, Scott, & Wigand, Marcus. Kerogen extraction from subterranean oil shale resources. United States.
Looney, Mark Dean, Lestz, Robert Steven, Hollis, Kirk, Taylor, Craig, Kinkead, Scott, and Wigand, Marcus. Tue .
"Kerogen extraction from subterranean oil shale resources". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/988386.
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title = {Kerogen extraction from subterranean oil shale resources},
author = {Looney, Mark Dean and Lestz, Robert Steven and Hollis, Kirk and Taylor, Craig and Kinkead, Scott and Wigand, Marcus},
abstractNote = {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.},
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year = {Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 EDT 2009},
month = {Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 EDT 2009}
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