High pressure combustor for generating steam downhole

Patent · Tue Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 1983

OSTI ID:5737535

Retallick, W B

A catalytic combustor for generating a mixture of steam and combustion gas is located downhole in oil well, so that the gas mixture can be injected directly into the oil reservoir to displace heavy oils from the reservoir. There can be a single stage of catalytic combustion, or there can be a stage of thermal combustion followed by a catalytic stage. In either case the purpose of the catalyst is drive the combustion to completion so that the gas mixture contains no soot that would plug the reservoir.

• Assignee: EDB-83-195579
• Patent Number(s): US 4397356
• OSTI ID: 5737535
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 26 Mar 1981; Other Information: PAT-APPL-247918
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
CATALYTIC COMBUSTORS
DESIGN
OIL WELLS
IN-SITU COMBUSTION
GAS INJECTION
PETROLEUM
STEAM GENERATION
VISCOSITY
WELL STIMULATION
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
COMBUSTORS
ENERGY SOURCES
ENHANCED RECOVERY
FLUID INJECTION
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
IN-SITU PROCESSING
OXIDATION
PROCESSING
RECOVERY
STIMULATION
THERMAL RECOVERY
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
WELLS
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